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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HOMERIC UNITY, by ANDREW LANG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The sacred keep of ilion is rent
Last Line: Of indivisible supremacy!
Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey
First Line: The sacred keep of ilion is rent
Last Line: Of indivisible supremacy!
Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey
THE sacred keep of Ilion is rent
By shaft and pit; foiled waters wander slow
Through plains where Simois and Scamander went
To war with Gods and heroes long ago.
Not yet to tired Cassandra, lying low
In rich Mycenæ, do the Fates relent:
The bones of Agamemnon are a show
And ruined is his royal monument.
The dust and awful treasures of the Dead,
Hath Learning scattered wide, but vainly thee,
Homer, she meteth with her tool of lead,
And strives to rend thy songs; too blind to see
The crown that burns on thine immortal head
Of indivisible supremacy!
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