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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 3. AN ENGLISH VOICE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poet's Biography
First Line: I knew the stars would come
Last Line: O southward blowing wind, blow on!
Subject(s): Death; Lesbos (island), Greece; Sea; Soul; Stars; Dead, The; Ocean
First Line: I knew the stars would come
Last Line: O southward blowing wind, blow on!
Subject(s): Death; Lesbos (island), Greece; Sea; Soul; Stars; Dead, The; Ocean
I knew the stars would come,
Brighter than English stars
And purer than the stars of battle!
They shine on Thessaly,
On the pale Argive plain,
And leave a lovelier light on Lesbos.
O Grecian stars, how oft
At home, in the grey sea,
I longed to know the lands ye guard!
Now death, propitious, speeds
My soul on those dark tides
Whose foam ye lit when Helen fled.
Blow, wind of Tauris, blow!
This is the sea that heard
The Lesbian's cry, and further south
The shining song of him
Whose heart was washed with tears.
O southward blowing wind, blow on!
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