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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOST ILIADS, by ESTHER FRIEDLANDER
First Line: A pile of ruins on a wind swept plain
Last Line: Will perish for the singing youth lie slain.
Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Ruins; Iliad; Odyssey
First Line: A pile of ruins on a wind swept plain
Last Line: Will perish for the singing youth lie slain.
Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Ruins; Iliad; Odyssey
A pile of ruins on a wind swept plain,
Some broken vases of a by-gone day,
Alike unknown without blind Homer's lay
Bear lasting witness that men fought in vain.
Time passes; but across the narrow main
Where ships of progress ply from every clime
Men battle still. The unrecorded mime
Will perish for the singing youth lie slain.
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