Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IPHIGENIA IN AULIS (GREEK THEATER, AUGUST 14, 1915), by CHARLES PHILLIPS (1880-1933)


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IPHIGENIA IN AULIS (GREEK THEATER, AUGUST 14, 1915), by                    
First Line: O godlike gestures, whose compelling sweep
Last Line: Kindling time's ancient silences with light!
Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Tragedy


O GODLIKE gestures, whose compelling sweep
Bids buried glories and the golden lore
Of days long lost live all their beauty o'er!
How like a sickle doth thy white arm reap
Thy sheaf of sorrow! Ah, thou dost not weep
Alone, sweet Iphigenia! nor implore
The sterile heavens to blow from Aulis' shore
A breath of saving o'er the blighted deep!
Daughter of sacrifice! thy tender grace,
Thy tragic story tremulous with tears,
Is more than legend now! Thy lovely face
Shines like a star through all the shadowed night;
Thy voice hath touched anew the vanished years,
Kindling Time's ancient silences with light!





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