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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BEAUTY, by ANACREON Poet's Biography First Line: Horns to bulls wise nature lends Last Line: Fire and sword with ease subdues. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Women | |||
Horns to bulls wise Nature lends: Horses she with hoofs defends: Hares with nimble feet relieves: Dreadful teeth to Lions gives: Fishes learns through streams to glide: Birds through yielding air to glide: Men with courage she supplies: But to Women these denies. What then gives she? Beauty, this Both their arms and armor is: She, that can this weapon use, Fire and sword with ease subdues. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ARISTOTLE TO PHYLLIS by JOHN HOLLANDER A WOMAN'S DELUSION by SUSAN HOWE JULIA TUTWILER STATE PRISON FOR WOMEN by ANDREW HUDGINS THE WOMEN ON CYTHAERON by ROBINSON JEFFERS TOMORROW by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |
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