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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE GRAVE OF HOMER, by ALCAEUS OF MESSENE Poet's Biography First Line: The visionary dream of life is o'er Last Line: The star of song -- the grace of graces -- sleeps. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey | |||
THE visionary dream of life is o'er; The bard of heroes sleeps on Ios' shore: Fair Ios' sons their lamentations pay, And wake the funeral dirge or solemn lay. O'er his pale lifeless corse and drooping head Ambrosial sweets the weeping nereids shed, And on the shore their sleeping poet laid, Beneath the towering mountain's peaceful shade. Nor undeserved their care, -- his tuneful tongue Achilles' wrath and Thetis' sorrows sung; His strains Laertes' son in triumph bore, Through woes unnumbered, to his native shore. Blest isle of Ios! On thy rocky steeps The Star of Song -- the Grace of Graces -- sleeps. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...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 THE HOMERIC HEXAMETER [DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED] by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER by JOHN KEATS PAN'S PIPING by ALCAEUS OF MESSENE |
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