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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HERMES OF THE LONELY HILL, by ANONYMOUS First Line: "not of my choosing, traveller, this desert eminence" Last Line: "my solitude, wayfarer, does not reflect his own" Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness | |||
NOT of my choosing, traveller, this desert eminence; Archelochus so willed it, who set my vigil here. To set me by the high-road had shown a better sense, -- No hill-top, Sir, for Hermes: he is no mountaineer. Archelochus is happy unneighboured and alone; My solitude, wayfarer, does but reflect his own. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN ABEYANCE by DENISE LEVERTOV IN A VACANT HOUSE by PHILIP LEVINE SUNDAY ALONE IN A FIFTH FLOOR APARTMENT, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS by WILLIAM MATTHEWS SILENCE LIKE COOL SAND by PAT MORA THE HONEY BEAR by EILEEN MYLES TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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