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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AFTER READING HOMER, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN Poet's Biography
First Line: Happy the man, who on the mountain-side
Last Line: O dear divine old giant, at thy feet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth
Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey
First Line: Happy the man, who on the mountain-side
Last Line: O dear divine old giant, at thy feet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth
Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey
HAPPY the man, who on the mountain-side
Bending o'er fern and flowers his basket fills:
Yet he will never know the outline-power,
The awful Whole of the Eternal Hills.
So some there are, who never feel the strength
In thy blind eyes, majestic and complete,
Which conquers those, who motionlessly sit,
O dear divine old Giant, at thy feet.
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