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OEDIPUS: SONG TO APOLLO by JOHN DRYDEN

Poet Analysis

First Line: PHOEBUS, GOD BELOV'D BY MEN
Last Line: THO' HE BURST WITH THE WEIGHT OF THE TERRIBLE GOD.
Subject(s): APOLLO; GODDESSES & GODS; MORNING; MYTHOLOGY; MYTHOLOGY - CLASSICAL; PROPHECY & PROPHETS; SINGING & SINGERS; SONGS;

@3Phoebus@1, God belov'd by men;
At thy dawn, ev'ry Beast is rouz'd in his Den;
At thy Setting, all the Birds of thy absence complain,
And we dye, all dye till the morning comes again,
@3Phoebus@1, God belov'd by men!
Idol of the Eastern Kings,
Awful as the God who flings
His Thunder round, and the Lightning wings;
God of Songs, and @3Orphean@1 Strings,
Who to this mortal bosom brings
All harmonious heav'nly Things!
Thy drouzie Prophet to revive,
Ten thousand thousand forms before him drive;
With Chariots and Horses all o' Fire awake him,
Convulsions, and Furies, and Prophesies shake him:
Let him tell it in Groans, tho' he bend with the load,
Tho' he burst with the weight of the terrible God.



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