Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO E.C. MARCHANT ESQ., by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB First Line: Sir, who some eight and forty years ago Last Line: Who once heard you expound it day by day. Subject(s): Writing & Writers | ||||||||
Sir, who some eight and forty years ago Read with your class the Aeschylean tale Of Agamemnon murdered and and the flail Of fate that laid the house of Atreus low: Learning by good chance that you liked to know How we, or those of us still within hail, Fare as we walk through life's tempestuous vale, I pen these words to pay a debt I owe. For now, not for the first time, I have spent Three peaceful fireside hours on that same play, In rapture rising to abandonment; And as through that stern text I made my way, I though how thankful should be his content Who once heard you expound it day by day. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CELL, SELECTION by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 126: THE DOUBTING MAN by LYN HEJINIAN WAKING THE MORNING DREAMLESS AFTER LONG SLEEP by JANE HIRSHFIELD COMPULSIVE QUALIFICATIONS by RICHARD HOWARD DEUTSCH DURCH FREUD by RANDALL JARRELL LET THEM ALONE by ROBINSON JEFFERS ON BUILDING WITH STONE by ROBINSON JEFFERS AMONG THE LAKES by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB AN EPITAPH (AFTER THE GREEK EPIGRAMS) by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB |
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