Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EPIGRAM, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON Poet's Biography First Line: O stranger! If anacreon's shell Last Line: Divinity itself divine! Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.); Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
O STRANGER! if Anacreon's shell Has ever taught thy heart to swell With passion's throb or pleasure's sigh, In pity turn, as wandering nigh, And drop thy goblet's richest tear In exquisite libation here! So shall my sleeping ashes thrill With visions of enjoyment still. I cannot even in death resign The festal joys that once were mine, When Harmony pursued my ways, And Bacchus wanton'd to my lays. Oh! if delight could charm no more, If all the goblet's bliss were o'er, When fate had once our doom decreed, Then dying would be death indeed! Nor could I think, unblest by wine, Divinity itself divine! | 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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