Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GREECE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When life contracts into a vulgar span Last Line: Which on such golden memories can lean? Subject(s): Greece; Greeks | ||||||||
When life contracts into a vulgar span And human nature tires to be a man, I thank the gods for Greece That permanent realm of peace, For as the rising moon far in the night Checquers the shade with her forerunning light, So in my darkest hour my senses seem To catch from her Acropolis a gleam, Greece who am I that should remember thee? Thy Marathon and thy Thermopylae Is my life vulgar my fate mean Which on such golden memories can lean? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FLOWER NO MORE THAN ITSELF by LINDA GREGG ALMA IN ALL SEASONS by LINDA GREGG ALMA IN THE DARK by LINDA GREGG ALMA TO HER SISTER by LINDA GREGG ALONE WITH THE GODDESS by LINDA GREGG APHRODITE AND THE NATURE OF ART by LINDA GREGG AS BEING IS ETERNAL by LINDA GREGG |
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