THE genius of the Augustan age His head among Rome's ruins reared, And bursting with heroic rage, When literary Heron appeared, "Thou hast," he cried, "like him of old Who set the Ephesian dome on fire, by being scandalously bold, Attained the mark of thy desire; "And for traducing Virgil's name Shalt share his merited reward; A perpetuity of fame, That rots, and stinks, and is abhorred." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TAM O' SHANTER by ROBERT BURNS DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI: 2. HEAT by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER PROMETHEUS by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE QUATRAIN: FROM EASTERN SOURCES: 3 by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH A VISION OF THE VOICE OF YAHVEH by AMOS SONG, BY -- by JAMES HAY BEATTIE EMANCIPATION IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, APRIL 16, 1862 by JAMES MADISON BELL |