Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WHERE ILIUM WAS PROUD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY


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WHERE ILIUM WAS PROUD, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the sands where ilium was proud
Last Line: Only a deathless tale in poets' mouths.
Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Pride; Iliad; Odyssey; Self-esteem; Self-respect


Along the sands where Ilium was proud
A crimson laurel bush, that draws, perhaps,
From Priam's ancient buried house its blood,
Sprinkles with flame the unbeholding waste
In luxury of summer-hearted bliss.
Ah, better so its given years to burn
Unseen of maidens and young warriors
Than, plucked untimely, to have flushed an hour
The white of Helen's bosom on a night
When Paris leaned across the lights and laughter
To drink her up with hot, unmanly eyes.
Its crimson, fading with the dawn, had been
Only a deathless tale in poets' mouths.





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