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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THE GRASSHOPPER, by ANACREON Poet's Biography First Line: Happy songster, perched above Last Line: Godlike in its kind as thou? Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Grasshoppers | |||
HAPPY songster, perched above, On the summit of the grove, Whom a dewdrop cheers to sing With the freedom of a king! From thy perch survey the fields Where prolific nature yields Nought that, willingly as she, Man surrenders not to thee. For hostility or hate None thy pleasures can create. Thee it satisfies to sing Sweetly the return of spring, Herald of the genial hours, Harming neither herbs nor flowers. Therefore man thy voice attends Gladly,--thou and he are friends, Nor thy never-ceasing strains Phoebus or the Muse disdains As too simple or too long, For themselves inspire the song. Earth-born, bloodless, undecaying, Ever singing, sporting, playing, What has nature else to show Godlike in its kind as thou? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TEN MILLS: ONE GUESS by ROBERT FROST A SOLILOQUY; OCCASIONED BY THE CHIRPING OF A GRASSHOPPER by WALTER HARTE THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE CRICKET by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET by JOHN KEATS THE GRASSHOPPER; TO MY NOBLE FRIEND MR. CHARLES COTTON by RICHARD LOVELACE ODE: THE GRASSHOPPER by ANACREON |
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