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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DAMON AND PYTHIAS, SELS., by JOHN BANIM Poet's Biography First Line: It is a marvelous phantasy, thou speakest of in dionysius | |||
Proc. It is a marvellous phantasy, thou speakest of In Dionysius. Dam. Yes, his mind is made Of strange materials, that are almost cast In contrariety to one another. The school and camp, in his ambition, make A strange division . Proc It is his creed, that, in this flesh of ours, Self ever entertains predominance; And, to all friendship he hath ever been A persevering infidel. For this, elike, he tries a strange experiment. What sayest thou? Will Damon come again? Dam. " Our love of life is in the very instinct Of mere material action , when we do Even so slight a thing as wink an eye Against the wind. Place me a soulless dog Upon the bare edge of a height, and he Shall shudder and shrink back, though none have proved To his capacity, that the fall were dangerous." I hold the thing impossible. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE IRISH MOTHER IN THE PENAL DAYS by JOHN BANIM BOUCHELLEEN-BAWN by JOHN BANIM DAMON TO THE SYRACUSANS by JOHN BANIM HE SAID THAT HE WAS NOT OUR BROTHER by JOHN BANIM THE SONG OF THE SHEPHERDS by EDWIN MARKHAM THE MOTHER'S LAMENT by ST. CLAIR ADAMS THRENODY by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH OFF MESOLONGI by ALFRED AUSTIN |
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