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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A GREEK GEM, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poet's Biography
First Line: Was it the signet of an antonine
Last Line: Have whelmed us in the sands we build upon.
Subject(s): Beauty; Greece; Jewelry & Jewelers; Time; Greeks
First Line: Was it the signet of an antonine
Last Line: Have whelmed us in the sands we build upon.
Subject(s): Beauty; Greece; Jewelry & Jewelers; Time; Greeks
Was it the signet of an Antonine—
This middle-finger ring whose bezel glows
With the most lovely of intaglios
Ere wrought by craftsman in an age divine?
Or was it borne by grim Tiberius' line
At lustful festals and fierce wild-beast shows?
Sealed it wise edicts, or when Lucan chose
His artful liberal death was it the sign?
I cannot tell, nor can this lucent toy!
I only know that these small graven forms,
This cymbal-playing maenad and this boy,
In their delightful beauty shall live on,
Crannied 'mong crashing rocks, when Time's last storms
Have whelmed us in the sands we build upon.
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