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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MYCENAE, by C. R. R.
First Line: In agamemnon's tomb the poppy blows
Last Line: The sculptor's column and the poet's clay.
Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors
First Line: In agamemnon's tomb the poppy blows
Last Line: The sculptor's column and the poet's clay.
Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors
In Agamemnon's tomb the poppy blows
High on the crag above the Argive plain,
Red as the blood of Agamemnon, slain
Among the wine cups in his first repose;
And pale convolvulus beside it grows,
Rose, wearing beauty in a rosier stain,
And strong Acanthus too, the thorny bane
Of the unwary, sows his seed and sows.
Beauty and blood and strength have passed like fires
That fade bequeathing fragrance to the day;
But the old tale still lives, the old desires,
Through hearts they fed are rotted into clay.
Art seizes them, and builds, to faery lyres,
The sculptor's column and the poet's clay.
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