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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FALSORUM DEORUM CULTOR, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me my mystery, nor let me be Last Line: And the thrinakrian hides crept o'er the ground! Subject(s): Fables; Allegories | |||
Give me my mystery, nor let me be Set in a world of rote and rule o' thumb. My little eyes see all there is to see? My scrap of brain know all there is to know? My mumming lips are -- dumb Before the presences that form and flow Through each day's mystery! Then Fable, they malign you? 'Tis a day Assured of this, that nothing is assured. Come to me, Fable! Foot your satyr way! Since all's so plain there's nothing plain to me, Rather I would be cured By purest essences of phantasy As in the world's mad May! Right bard, who spoke for "Triton's wreathed horn"! And this I speak for: Glaucus and his train, Finned shapes and scaly, on this sea-blue morn Seek with their soft AEolic prophecies Lost islands of the main. I follow Leucothea overseas For the old myth reborn! Oh rough-horned river gods, blue-mantled round, Rise from your streams to-day that flow as flowed Thrice-haunted streams 'neath Myrtion! At the sound, Sweet Superstition, wake a little while -- As when the full spits lowed Through awe-struck silence on Apollo's isle And the Thrinakrian hides crept o'er the ground! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CYMON AND IPHIGENIA by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO SIGISMONDA AND GUISCARDO by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO THE CHARACTER OF A GOOD PARSON by GEOFFREY CHAUCER THE COCK AND THE FOX, OR THE TALE OF THE NUN'S PRIEST by GEOFFREY CHAUCER TIME, REAL AND IMAGINARY; AN ALLEGORY by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE GLADYS AND HER ISLAND; AN IMPERFECT TALE WITH DOUBTFUL MORAL by JEAN INGELOW THE WOLF AND THE DOG by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE THE FALCONER OF GOD by WILLIAM ROSE BENET |
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