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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ANDROMEDA, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The smooth-worn coin and threadbare classic phrase Last Line: A legend's shadow shall not move you so! Subject(s): Andromeda (mythology) | |||
THE smooth-worn coin and threadbare classic phrase Of Grecian myths that did beguile my youth, Beguile me not as in the olden days: I think more grief and beauty dwell with truth. Andromeda, in fetters by the sea, Star-pale with anguish till young Perseus came, Less moves me with her suffering than she, The slim girl figure fettered to dark shame, That nightly haunts the park, there, like a shade, Trailing her wretchedness from street to street. See where she passes -- neither wife nor maid; How all mere fiction crumbles at her feet! Here is woe's self, and not the mask of woe: A legend's shadow shall not move you so! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ANDROMEDA by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS ASPECTA MEDUSA by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI IBANT OBSCURAE by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. ANDROMETA by EDWARD CARPENTER ANDROMEDA; FRAGMENT by EURIPIDES ANDROMEDA CHAINED TO HER ROCK THE GREAT NEBULA IN HER HEART by KENNETH REXROTH AFTER THE RAIN by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH AN ALPINE PICTURE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH AN ODE ON THE UNVEILING OF THE SHAW MEMORIA BOSTON COMMON, MAY 31, 1897 by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH |
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