'ART thou the grave of Charidas?' 'If for Arimmas' son, The Cyrenaean, you inquire, I am the very one.' 'How goes it, Charidas, below?' 'Much gloom.' 'And the way back?' 'A lie, there is none.' 'Pluto, then?' 'Pluto's a myth.' 'Alack!' 'I'm telling you the truth. If you want fairy tales instead, The market price of oxen here is half a crown a head.' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SEEDLING by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE BOHEMIAN HYMN by RALPH WALDO EMERSON HYMN TO SANTA RITA; THE PATRON SAINT OF THE IMPOSSIBLE by ALVEY AUGUSTUS ADEE ANTIQUE JEWELER by FREDERICK HENRY HERBERT ADLER THE ROVER O' LOCHRYAN by HEW AINSLIE QUATRAIN: THE IRON AGE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH |