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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE HOMERIC HEXAMETER [DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED], by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poet's Biography
First Line: Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows
Last Line: Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean.
Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mnemonics; Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey
First Line: Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows
Last Line: Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean.
Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mnemonics; Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey
STRONGLY it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows,
Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean.
Other Poems of Interest...
ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS
THE EPIC STARS by ROBINSON JEFFERS
THE CHILDHOOD OF HOMER by MARY KINZIE
HOMER'S SEEING-EYE DOG by WILLIAM MATTHEWS
THE RETURN OF THE GREEKS by EDWIN MUIR
HOMER IN BASIC by KENNETH REXROTH
ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER by JOHN KEATS
SONNET: TO HOMER by JOHN KEATS