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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PHRYGES: JUSTICE PROTECTS THE KING, by AESCHYLUS Poet's Biography First Line: If you would do a kinness to the dead Last Line: And justice wreaks their vengeance for the dead. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The | |||
IF you would do a kindness to the dead, Or do an ill, it matters not that men Are neither pleased nor grieved at what you do. Yet Nemesis is mightier than we, And Justice wreaks their vengeance for the dead. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES: CHORUS by AESCHYLUS |
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