FAIR Helen to the Scæan portals came, Where sat the elders, peers of Priamus, Thymoetas, Hiketaon, Panthöus, And many another of a noble name, Famed warriors, now in council more of fame. Always above the gates, in converse thus They chattered like cicalas garrulous; Who marking Helen, swore "it is no shame That armed Achæan knights, and Ilian men For such a woman's sake should suffer long. Fair as a deathless goddess seemeth she. Nay, but aboard the red-prowed ships again Home let her pass in peace, not working wrong To us, and children's children yet to be." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BIRTHNIGHT: TO F by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE GREENES FUNERALLS: SONNET 11 by RICHARD BARNFIELD VALUATION by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON ON A GRAVE IN THE FOREST by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT IN AN ANCIENT LAND by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE THE BOHEMIANS OF BOSTON AND THEIR WAYS; A MEMORY OF THE JACOBEAN CRAZE by FRANK GELETT BURGESS |