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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 | |||
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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE EPIC STARS by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE CHILDHOOD OF HOMER by MARY KINZIE HOMER'S SEEING-EYE DOG by WILLIAM MATTHEWS THE RETURN OF THE GREEKS by EDWIN MUIR HOMER IN BASIC by KENNETH REXROTH THE HOMERIC HEXAMETER [DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED] by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |
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