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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EUMARES, by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS Poet's Biography First Line: Tumultuous sea, whose wrath and foam are spent Last Line: For nothing shalt thou find but bones and dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Asklepiades Of Samos Subject(s): Bones; Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Monuments; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones | |||
TUMULTUOUS sea, whose wrath and foam are spent So nigh to Eumares' worn monument; Spare if thou wilt and shatter if thou must, For nothing shalt thou find but bones and dust. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SURVIVOR AMONG GRAVES by RANDALL JARRELL SUBJECTED EARTH by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE GRAVE OF MRS. HEMANS by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER THOSE GRAVES IN ROME by LARRY LEVIS NOT TO BE DWELLED ON by HEATHER MCHUGH ONE LAST DRAW OF THE PIPE by PAUL MULDOON ETRUSCAN TOMB by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS ENDING WITH A LINE FROM LEAR by MARVIN BELL A TOMB BY THE SEA by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS |
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