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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HOMER, by ALBERT EHRENSTEIN
First Line: I sang the songs of red revenge
Last Line: Trouble the limpid eyes of the world.
Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey
First Line: I sang the songs of red revenge
Last Line: Trouble the limpid eyes of the world.
Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey
I sang the songs of red revenge,
And I sang the stillness of wood-shadowed waters,
But no one companioned me;
Rigid, lonely,
As the locust sings to itself,
To myself I sang my song.
Now my steps vanish, grown faint
In the sands of lassitude.
For weariness my eyes are failing me,
I am tired of comfortless fords,
Of sea-crossing, of girls, of streets,
At the gulf's edge I do not remember
The shields and the spears.
Blown upon by birches,
By winds over-shadowed,
I fall asleep to the sound of a harp
Whose music
Joyfully drips from under another's fingers.
I do not stir,
For all thoughts and all acts
Trouble the limpid eyes of the world.
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