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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DIVINE PHILOSOPHER, by EMPEDOCLES First Line: Ye friends, who in the mighty city dwell Last Line: Where lies advantage and the better way. | |||
YE friends, who in the mighty city dwell Along the yellow Acragas hard by The Acropolis, ye stewards of good works, The stranger's refuge venerable and kind, All hail, O friends! But unto ye I walk As god immortal now, no more as man, On all sides honoured fittingly and well, Crowned both with fillets and with flowering wreaths. When with my throngs of men and women I come To thriving cities, I am sought by prayers, And thousands follow me that they may ask Where lies advantage and the better way. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BLOOD-GUILTY by EMPEDOCLES THE LIMITATIONS OF KNOWLEDGE by EMPEDOCLES TO W.E.B. DUBOIS - SCHOLAR by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON BOSTON HYMN; READ IN MUSIC HALL, JANUARY 1, 1863 by RALPH WALDO EMERSON SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 14. OVER THE COFFIN by THOMAS HARDY GRACE FOR CHILDREN by ROBERT HERRICK SONGS OF TRAVEL: 46. EVENSONG by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON THE CRISIS by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER A RECEIPT TO CURE THE VAPOURS by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU |
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