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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO ERINNA, by SARA TEASDALE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was time not harsh to you, or was he kind Last Line: "deep in a forest at the break of day""?" Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Erinna (4th Century B.c.) | |||
Was Time not harsh to you, or was he kind, O pale Erinna of the perfect lyre, That he has left no word of singing fire Whereby you waked the dreaming Lesbian wind, And kindled night along the lyric shore? O girl whose lips Erato stooped to kiss, Do you go sorrowing because of this In fields where poets sing forevermore? Or are you glad and is it best to be A silent music men have never heard, A dream in all our souls that we may say: "Her voice had all the rapture of the sea, And all the clear cool quiver of a bird Deep in a forest at the break of day"? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PREFACE TO ERINNA'S POEMS by ANTIPATER OF SIDON PREFACE TO ERINNA'S POEMS by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS ERINNA by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON ERINNA TO SAPPHO by EDUARD FRIEDRICH MORIKE ON ERINNA by LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM I HAVE SEEN THE SPRING' by SARA TEASDALE A LITTLE WHILE by SARA TEASDALE |
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