Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GREECE, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, nature's utmost boast! Unrivalled greece! Last Line: Of farthest crete resounds the libyan main. Subject(s): Greece; Greeks | ||||||||
HAIL, Nature's utmost boast! unrivalled Greece! My fairest reign! where every power benign Conspired to blow the flower of human kind, And lavished all that genius can inspire. Cear, sunny climates by the breezy main, Ionian or AEgean, tempered kind: Light, airy soils: a country rich, and gay Broke into hills with balmy odors crowned, And, bright with purple harvest, joyous vales: Mountains, and streams, where verse spontaneous flowed; Whence deemed by wondering men the seat of gods, And still the mountains and the streams of song. All that boon Nature could luxuriant pour Of high materials, and my restless arts Frame into finished life. How many states, And clustering towns, and monuments of fame, And scenes of glorious deeds, in little bounds? From the rough tract of bending mountains, beat By Adria's here, there by AEgean waves; To where the deep adorning Cyclade Isles In shining prospect rise, and on the shore Of farthest Crete resounds the Libyan main. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FLOWER NO MORE THAN ITSELF by LINDA GREGG ALMA IN ALL SEASONS by LINDA GREGG ALMA IN THE DARK by LINDA GREGG ALMA TO HER SISTER by LINDA GREGG ALONE WITH THE GODDESS by LINDA GREGG APHRODITE AND THE NATURE OF ART by LINDA GREGG AS BEING IS ETERNAL by LINDA GREGG HYMN ON SOLITUDE by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) THE CASTLE OF INDOLENCE: CANTO 1 by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) |
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