Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MODERN ATHENS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If fate, though jealous of the second birth Last Line: The awful skeleton of ancient days! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Athens, Greece | ||||||||
IF Fate, though jealous of second birth Of names in history raised to high degree, Permits that Athens yet once more shall be, Let her be placed as suits the thought and worth Of those who, during long oppression's dearth, Went out from Hydra and Ipsara free, Making their homestead of the chainless sea, And hardly touching their enslaved earth. So on the shore, in sight of Salamis, On the Piraean and Phalerian bays, With no harsh contrast of what was and is, Let Athens rise; while in the distance stands, Like something hardly raised by human hands, The awful skeleton of ancient days! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ACHARNIANS: IN PRAISE OF THE POET by ARISTOPHANES THE UNKNOWN GOD by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD INCOGNITA IN THE TEMPLE OF THESEUS by SEYMOUR GREEN WHEELER BENJAMIN A VOICE FROM ACADEME by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN A PRIZE FOR EURIPIDES by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE: CANTO 2 by GEORGE GORDON BYRON LINES [WRITTEN] IN THE TRAVELLER'S BOOK AT ORCHOMENUS by GEORGE GORDON BYRON COLUMBUS AND THE MAYFLOWER by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES |
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