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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TRIOLET: 3, by SARA TEASDALE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the dim hesperides Last Line: The girl who sang them long ago? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.) | |||
(Written in a copy of "The Poems of Sappho".) Beyond the dim Hesperides, The girl who sang them long ago Could never dream that over seas, Beyond the dim Hesperides, The wind would blow such songs as these -- I wonder now if she can know, Beyond the dim Hesperides, The girl who sang them long ago? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AFTER SAPPHO by KENNETH REXROTH WHEN WE WITH SAPPHO by KENNETH REXROTH SO HELP ME SAPPHO by ANNE WALDMAN AD LESBIAM by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS SUMMER MATURES by HELENE JOHNSON FOR SAPPHO / AFTER SAPPHO by CAROLYN KIZER |
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