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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IMITATRIX ALES, by AULUS LICINIUS ARCHIAS First Line: I was a jay-bird, screeching back the noise Last Line: Having renounced my taste for mimicry. Alternate Author Name(s): Archias | |||
I WAS a jay-bird, screeching back the noise Of fishermen or foresters or herds; Often with Echo's iterative voice My mocking beak would caw a string of words: Now dumb and tongueless here in earth I lie, Having renounced my taste for mimicry. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A TOMB BY THE SEA by AULUS LICINIUS ARCHIAS ECHO by AULUS LICINIUS ARCHIAS IT JUST SO HAPPENS by JAMES GALVIN WHEN MALINDY SINGS by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME by STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER ON PASSING THE NEW MENIN GATE by SIEGFRIED SASSOON NO SONGS IN WINTER by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE METEMPSYCHOSIS by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH |
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