Classic and Contemporary Poetry
APHRODITE'S TEMPLE, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The murmured awe Last Line: Whom I called father once. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Temples | ||||||||
The murmured awe Of thousands filled the temple's pillared gloom; They gazed upon my changeless smile and saw My flowering bosom like the lotus-bloom Pale in the myriad lamps' uncertain sheen. I breathed upon them and they bowed the head; I fetched my breath, and their rapt spirit's balm I drank like wind. They loved and they are dead, But I remember them. So farewell King, Whom I called Father once. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SAPPHO AND PHAON: 2. THE TEMPLE OF CHASTITY by MARY DARBY ROBINSON THE BAYADERE by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS AT DENDERA by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR RAMESES WORSHIPS RAMESES AT ABU SIMBEL by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR GLIMPSES OF ITALY: 5. LIKE PAESTUM'S TEMPLE by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON MAYAN TEMPLE by ADA CLARKE CARMICHIEL THE EARTHLY HOUSE by PHOEBE CARY THE DESERTED SHRINE by GLADYS CROMWELL THE ARK OF THE COVENANT by NINA DAVIS |
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