Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A YOUNG POET, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY First Line: Go, like hippolytus, to win thee bays Last Line: With all her sullen, unrelenting waves. Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
GO, like Hippolytus, to win thee bays In the Athenian games. Go, gather fame To splendid youth and beauty and the praise Of exile proudly borne, and make thy name Beloved of Artemis. Yet wear renown As one who needs it not, since that bright head The dignity of death too soon shall crown, And all thy comely locks be smeared with red. Or spread, Daedalian boy, thy pinions fair, And mount above our landmarks one by one; But let thy proud wings court the middle air, And never flaunt them near the jealous sun. Alas! I see white limbs that ocean laves With all her sullen, unrelenting waves. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB A CHILD'S THOUGHTS by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY |
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