Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SUGGESTED BY THE RUINS OF A MOUNTAIN-TEMPLE IN ARCADIA, by HERMAN MELVILLE



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First Line: Like stranded ice when freshets die
Last Line: The quarries be!
Subject(s): Greece; Ruins; Temples; Greeks; Mosques


Like stranded ice when freshets die
These shattered marbles tumbled lie:
They trouble me.

What solace? -- Old in inexhaustion,
Interred alive from storms of fortune,
The quarries be!





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