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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ELEGY: 3.26. PRAYER FOR HIS LADY'S LIFE, by SEXTUS PROPERTIUS Poet's Biography First Line: Here let thy clemency, persephone, hold firm Last Line: Ye might let one remain above with us. | |||
Here let thy clemency, Persephone, hold firm, Do thou, Pluto, bring here no greater harshness. So many thousand beauties are gone down to Avernus, Ye might let one remain above with us. With you is Iope, with you the white-gleaming Tyro, With you is Europa and the shameless Pasiphae, And all the fair from Troy and all from Achaia, From the sundered realms, of Thebes and of aged Priamus; And all the maidens of Rome, as many as they were, They died and the greed of your flame consumes them. Here let thy clemency, Persephone, hold firm, Do thou, Pluto, bring here no greater harshness. So many thousand fair are gone down to Avernus, Ye might let one remain above with us. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ELEGY: 1.2. BEAUTY UNADORNED by SEXTUS PROPERTIUS ELEGY: 3.25. REVENGE TO COME by SEXTUS PROPERTIUS THE IMMORTALITY OF GENIUS by SEXTUS PROPERTIUS THE WANDERINGS OF OISIN by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS NICHOLAS NYE by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE MORNING by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE YARN OF THE 'NANCY BELL' by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT APRIL, FR. LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE ROSE AND THE GAUNTLET by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) |
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