Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A TOMB BY THE SEA, by AULUS LICINIUS ARCHIAS First Line: I'm dead, and yet must thole the sleepless surge Last Line: Alone of ghosts I cannot lie at ease. Alternate Author Name(s): Archias Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones | ||||||||
I'M dead, and yet must thole the sleepless surge. When billows threw me battered on the sands, By spouting reefs I found, beside the verge Of mine old foe, a grave at strangers' hands; But still among the dead am I distressed To hear the boom and thunder of the seas: Not even Hades couches me to rest; Alone of ghosts I cannot lie at ease. | 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 DEDICATION TO ATHENE by AULUS LICINIUS ARCHIAS |
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