Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MENAPHON: APOLLO'S ORACLE, by ROBERT GREENE


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MENAPHON: APOLLO'S ORACLE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When neptune, riding on the southern seas
Last Line: And sweet content within your troubled clime.
Subject(s): Apollo; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical


WHEN Neptune, riding on the southern seas,
Shall from the bosom of his leman yield
Th' Arcadian wonder, men and gods to please,
Plenty in pride shall march amidst the field;
Dead men shall war, and unborn babes shall frown,
And with their falchions hew their foemen down.

When lambs have lions for their surest guide,
And planets rest upon th' Arcadian hills,
When swelling seas have neither ebb nor tide,
When equal banks the ocean-margin fills;
Then look, Arcadians, for a happy time,
And sweet content within your troubled clime.





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