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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ENCOURAGEMENT TO EXILE, by TITUS PETRONIUS NIGER Poet's Biography First Line: Leave thine own home, o youth, seek distant shores! Last Line: Who disembarks, fearless, on alien sands. Alternate Author Name(s): Petronius Arbiter; Tactitus Arbiter Elegantiae Subject(s): Independence; Youth | |||
LEAVE thine own home, O youth, seek distant shores! For thee a larger order somewhere shines Fear not thy fate! For thee through unknown pines Under the cold north-wind the Danube pours; For thee in Egypt the untroubled lands Wait, and strange men behold the setting sun Fall down and rise. Greatly be thou as one Who disembarks, fearless, on alien sands. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BETWEEN THE WARS by ROBERT HASS THE GOLDEN SHOVEL by TERRANCE HAYES |
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