Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WRITTEN IN A COPY OF HORACE, by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS


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WRITTEN IN A COPY OF HORACE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Could you tell from all his satires
Last Line: Say, then, chloe, could you tell?
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Satire (as Poetic Genre)


COULD you tell from all his satires
Odes and epodes and the rest,
Mocking, lauding verbal empires,
Could you tell what he loved best
In his life, and where his home was,
Had you read them, could you tell?

Just how fair the Sabine fields lay,
Spread below his Tibur home,
How those hours after noon-day
Sped in musing far from Rome,
What his really dearest dreams were,
What his visions, could you tell?

Yea, and I, too, lived an Idyll,
Just a day long, it is true,
But were I to frame the riddle
In Horatian lines, could you
Read my life, my dreams, my visions?
Say, then, Chloe, could you tell?





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