Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TESTE SIBYLLA, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poet's Biography First Line: With a great cry the sibyl woke and left Last Line: While up in heaven a star rose in the east. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Truth | ||||||||
With a great cry the Sibyl woke and left The long walls of Assyrian Babylon, Wrenching her torn black robes and locks undone From them that hung upon her right and left. Pale, shrieking, mad, the curious crowd she cleft Swift as a homing swallow, and darted on Thro' leagues of tawny solitude alone, Prophesying a riddle as one bereft... "Not for to-day I speak, but for to-morrow! Mad, call me! Liar, call me! Sage and priest, To-morrow I shall be the fount of Truth!" But once she faltered, babbling words of ruth And yearning hope, and a new tender sorrow, While up in heaven a star rose in the east. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INCLINED TO SPEAK by LAWRENCE JOSEPH WHAT IS TRUTH? by JOHN BOWRING EVERYTHING THAT ACTS IS ACTUAL by DENISE LEVERTOV LYING MY HEAD OFF by CATE MARVIN TRUTH SERUM by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE FROST AND HIS ENEMIES by ROBERT BLY AN ORCHARD AT AVIGNON by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON |
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