THESE lame hexameters the strong-wing'd music of Homer! No -- but a most burlesque barbarous experiment. When was a harsher sound ever heard, ye Muses, in England? When did a frog coarser croak upon our Helicon? Hexameters no worse than daring Germany gave us, Barbarous experiment, barbarous hexameters. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SEA GODS: 3 by HILDA DOOLITTLE THE WALLS DO NOT FALL: 4 by HILDA DOOLITTLE OF THE LAST VERSES IN THE BOOK by EDMUND WALLER THE ARTILLERYMAN'S VISION by WALT WHITMAN TO W. HOHENZOLLERN: A PLEA by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS THE LIP AND THE HEART by JOHN QUINCY ADAMS THE VIAL by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE |