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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DISINTERMENT OF THE HERMES, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: What forms divine in adamant fair
Last Line: Sterile, with brimming hands.
Subject(s): Archeology; Greece; Praxiteles (370-330 B.c.); Greeks
First Line: What forms divine in adamant fair
Last Line: Sterile, with brimming hands.
Subject(s): Archeology; Greece; Praxiteles (370-330 B.c.); Greeks
What forms divine in adamant fair --
Carven demigod and god,
And hero-marbles rivalling these,
Bide under Latium's sod,
Or lost in sediment and drift
Alluvial which the Grecian rivers sift.
To dig for these, O better far
Than raking arid sands
For gold more barren meetly theirs
Sterile, with brimming hands.
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