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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INSCRIBED ON A CENOTAPH, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS Poet's Biography
First Line: O cloud-capt geraneia, rock unblest!
Last Line: This tomb speaks, tenantless, his ocean-grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Geraneia, Greece
First Line: O cloud-capt geraneia, rock unblest!
Last Line: This tomb speaks, tenantless, his ocean-grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Geraneia, Greece
O CLOUD-CAPT Geraneia, rock unblest!
Would thou hadst reared far hence thy haughty crest,
By Tanais wild, or wastes where Ister flows,
Nor looked on Sciron from thy silent snows!
A cold, cold corpse he lies beneath the wave,
This tomb speaks, tenantless, his ocean-grave.
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