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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HUNDRED-GATED THEBES, by GEORGE DARLEY Poet's Biography First Line: Hundred-gated city! Thou Last Line: But vast desolation! | |||
Hundred-gated City! thou With gryphoned arch and avenue For denizen giants, serve they now But to let one poor mortal through? Wide those streaming gates of war Ran once with many a conqueror, Horseman and chariot, to the sound Of the dry serpent blazoning round Theban Sesostris' dreaded name, Where is now the loud acclaim? Where the trample and the roll, Shaking staid Earth like a mole? Sunk to a rush's sigh! -- Farewell, Thou bleached wilderness o'erblown By treeless winds, unscythable Sandbanks, with peeping rocks bestrown, That for thy barrenness seem'st to be The bed of some retreated sea! City of Apis, shrine and throne, Fare thee well! dispeopled sheer Of thy mighty millions, here Giant thing inhabits none, But vast Desolation! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FALLEN STAR by GEORGE DARLEY THE FLOWER OF BEAUTY by GEORGE DARLEY THE GAMBOLS OF CHILDREN by GEORGE DARLEY THE LOVELINESS OF LOVE by GEORGE DARLEY A RURAL RETREAT; ENTER OF SALISBURY WITH A BOX by GEORGE DARLEY A VILLAGE BLACKSMITH by GEORGE DARLEY ETHELSTAN: SCENE by GEORGE DARLEY LAY OF THE FORLORN by GEORGE DARLEY LINES, FR. NEPENTHE by GEORGE DARLEY |
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