Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, NAUSICAA, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER


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First Line: Oft, from my classic memory's inmost shade
Last Line: Of purple yarn, foreshow'd him where to sue.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical


Oft, from my classic memory's inmost shade,
That fair Phaeacian shore to light I bring,
Where young Nausicaa stood, - that royal maid,
Whose brave-eyed pity faced the naked king,
And made a shipwreck sweet. Beside the bed
Of a near stream he found the robe and oil,
Her timely present to the man of toil;
Anon she took the chariot-reins, and led
The way, while in among her train he pass'd:
Then to the sacred grove, when they had come
Near that unsocial city; till, at last,
He hail'd his sea-star in her own bright home, -
The girl who cloth'd his shame, and by the clue
Of purple yarn, foreshow'd him where to sue.





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