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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SHEPHERD APOLLO, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poet's Biography First Line: Clim with me, laomedon's white fleeces Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) | |||
Climb with me, Laomedon's white fleeces, Upward to the hilltops, up to Ida, To unshaded dews and earliest dawning. Young and lustrous, god and yet a servant, As a star past rock and stream I climb. Raise your heads erect, ye flocks, and listen To the note I strike from off my lyre! They have heard, they stand each head erected; Thus they wait the Grazing-Tune that woos Slowly to the ridges and the sky. I have struck it: all submissive listen, Till they feed in mystery, advancing, Drawn to solemn paces by a spell; Then to sharper strains one way they hurry, Fleece by fleece around me, till I strike Sweet, soft notes that lay them down to slumber, I beside them, where the sun no more Falls across us, but the chilling moonlight: There we sleep, my flock and I together, I, a god, though servant of a king. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DANCERS by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY A PALIMPSEST by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY AFTER SOUFRIERE by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY AN AEOLIAN HARP by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY ARIADNE by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY EARTH TO EARTH by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY IRIS by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY IRISES by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY IT WAS DEEP APRIL by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY L'INDIFFERENT; WATTEAU; THE LOUVRE by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY |
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