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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
KYRENAIKOS, by ALAN SEEGER Poet's Biography
First Line: Lay me where soft cyrene rambles down
Last Line: Dreams, with the starlight on her fragrant hair.
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks
First Line: Lay me where soft cyrene rambles down
Last Line: Dreams, with the starlight on her fragrant hair.
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks
Lay me where soft Cyrene rambles down
In grove and garden to the sapphire sea;
Twine yellow roses for the drinker's crown;
Let music reach and fair heads circle me,
Watching blue ocean where the white sails steer
Fruit-laden forth or with the wares and news
Of merchant cities seek our harbors here,
Careless how Corinth fares, how Syracuse;
But here, with love and sleep in her caress,
Warm night shall sink and utterly persuade
The gentle doctrine Aristippus bare, --
Night-winds, and one whose white youth's loveliness,
In a flowered balcony beside me laid,
Dreams, with the starlight on her fragrant hair.
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