Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TEMPE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poet's Biography First Line: Lapped in thessalia's forest-mantled hills Last Line: Weary with many wanderings, to the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Tempe (vale), Greece | ||||||||
LAPPED in Thessalia's forest-mantled hills Lies the fair vale of Tempe: down the gorge, O'ercanopied with groves, old Peneus rolls From Pindus' foot his waters to the sea, Wreathing the woods with mist of silvery spray, And resonant, through many a league around, With many a fall. There, in the caverned rock That makes his palace-home, the River-God Sits sovereign o'er the stream that bears his name And all its haunting nymphs. And thither throng The brother-powers of all the neighbor-floods, Doubtful or to congratulate or condole The parent's hap: Spercheus, poplar-crowned, -- Enipeus turbulent, Apidonus Hoary with age, and smooth Amphrysus came, And AEas, and the rest, that lead their waves, Weary with many wanderings, to the sea. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TEMPE by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS TEMPE by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 8. BAUCIS AND PHILEMON by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO AMORES [THE LOVES]: BOOK 1, ELEGY 1 by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO AMORES [THE LOVES]: BOOK 2, ELEGY 19 by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO AMORES [THE LOVES]: BOOK II. ELEGY 9. TO LOVE by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO CAVE OF SOMNUS, FR. METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 11 by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO CEYX AND ALCYONE by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO CHANCE TO MACAREUS by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO CINYRAS AND MYRRHA by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO |
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