Or is it all illusion? Do the years Cover with glamor what was tawdry then? Did moralists and such like thunder when Antigone got drunk on Attic beers, And danced too freely mid the eager leers Of Plato's seniors, who bought up the glen To prove to Athens that they lived like men -- And gave Antigone the college cheers? It may be so. I should not think it strange. Herodias, Antigone, La Belle -- One sisterhood. Perhaps we do not change As much as some pretend to think. Ah, well -- Don't let me spoil your pleasure in the show -- For me, my vision of the long ago! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VERSES WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM OF A LADY'S COMMON-PLACE BOOK by THOMAS MOORE THE GREENWOOD SHRIFT; GEORGE III AND A DYING WOMAN IN WINDSOR FOREST by ROBERT SOUTHEY HOLYHEAD, SEPTEMBER 25, 1727 by JONATHAN SWIFT EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 10. BLIND LOVE by PHILIP AYRES ECHOES OF SPRING: 2 by MATHILDE BLIND THIS WAY FOR ROMANCE by BERTON BRALEY POOR LIL' BRACK SHEEP by ETHEL M. C. BRAZELTON |