Classic and Contemporary Poetry
STERRA GAR ANAGKH' HEGUBA, 1295, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poet's Biography First Line: I gaze into her loved eyes, and behold Last Line: "thus surely: "" ' fate is stern! '" Subject(s): Fate | ||||||||
I gaze into her loved eyes, and behold A terror there - , Death's vague monition and the pain untold Of newly-learnt despair. Late sunglow over the oak-woods by the sea, A wind that hovers, Dog-roses breathing, - these, methinks, must be A spell o'er happier lovers. For us a pang is in the wind; the waves And woods' perfumes Seem dimly eloquent of unseen graves And sharp forgotten dooms. Such love as ours is but to lose hearts' -ease Beyond return : How ends that play of sweet Euripides ? Thus surely : - ' Fate is stern ! ' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ATTEMPTING TO ANSWER DAVID IGNATOW'S QUESTION by ROBERT BLY FROST AND HIS ENEMIES by ROBERT BLY THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR UNABLE TO FIND by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR I HAVE A RENDEZVOUS WITH LIFE by COUNTEE CULLEN TO HELEN KELLER - HUMANITARIAN, SOCIAL DEMOCRAT, GREAT SOUL by EDWIN MARKHAM DOMESDAY BOOK: FINDING OF THE BODY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS WE COME BACK by KENNETH REXROTH EPITAPHIUM CITHARISTRIAE by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR |
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