Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WINGED EROS OF TUNIS, RECOVERED FROM THE SEA NEAR MAHDIA IN 1904, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful bronze boy, wing Last Line: Of the waves for our worship and love. Subject(s): Artifacts; Rebirth; Sea; Ocean | ||||||||
BEAUTIFUL bronze boy, wing Of the golden age in flower With the bloom of an Asian spring, -- Sheathless beauty and power; Life in its delicate fuse Of first thought, first desire, -- Of Meleager's muse The radiance and the fire! Thy loveliness disdained A rude barbarian fate; No Christian touch profaned Thy form inviolate; But plunged in ocean-peace The blue waves did thee cover; A score of centuries Thou hadst the sea for lover. Late thence emerging now Into the gray light wan, Thou bringest the youthful brow The world's dawn rests upon. Strange is the sight, forlorn The heart with the sense thereof, Beautiful boy, reborn Of the waves for our worship and love. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HALL OF OCEAN LIFE by JOHN HOLLANDER JULY FOURTH BY THE OCEAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS BOATS IN A FOG by ROBINSON JEFFERS CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE FIGUREHEAD by LEONIE ADAMS AT GIBRALTAR by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY |
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