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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EPIGRAM, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON Poet's Biography First Line: Here sleeps anacreon, in this ivied shade Last Line: And venus calls thee even in death her own! Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.); Poetry & Poets | |||
HERE sleeps Anacreon, in this ivied shade; Here mute in death the Teian swan is laid. Jold, cold the heart, which lived but to respire All the voluptuous frenzy of desire! And yet, O Bard! thou art not mute in death Still, still we catch thy lyre's delicious breath And still thy songs of soft Bathylla bloom, Green as the ivy round the mouldering tomb! Nor yet has death obscured thy fire of love, Still, still it lights thee through th' Elysian grove; And dreams are thine, that bless th' elect alone, And Venus calls thee even in death her own! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB ANACREON by ANTIPATER OF SIDON |
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