Selected Poems
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217990813
Paperback|9780217990813
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE LAST SONG OF APOLLO. O Lyre O Lyre Strung with celestial fire A living soul of sound that answereth These fingers that have troubled it so long With passion, and with beauty, and with breath Of melancholy song, ? Answer, answer, answer me, With thy mournful melody For the earth is old, and strange Mysteries are working change, And the Dead who slumber'd deep Startle sobbing in their sleep, And the ancient gods divine, Wan and weary o'er their wine, Wail in their ghastly banquet-halls, with large eyes fix'd on mine Ah me ah me The earth and air and sea Are shaken; and the great pale gods sit still, The roseate mists around them roll away: ? Lo Hebe falters in the act to fill, And groweth wan and gray; On the banquet-table spread, Fruits and flowers grow black and dead, Nectar cold in every cup Gleams to blood and withers up; Aphrodite1 breathes a charm, Gripping Pallas' bronzed arm; Zeus the Father clenches teeth, While his cloud-throne shakes beneath; The passion-flower in Herd's hair melts in a snowy wreath Ah, woe ah, woe I One climbeth from below, ? A mortal shape with pallid smile doth rise, Bearing a heavy Cross and crown'd with thorn, ? His brow is moist with blood, his strange sweet eyes Look piteous and forlorn: Hark Oh hark his cold foot-fall Breaks upon the banquet-hall I God and goddess start to hear, Earth, air, ocean, moan in fear; Shadows of the Cross and Him Make the banquet-table dim, Silent sit the gods divine, Old and haggard over wine, And slowly to my song they fade, with large eyes fix'd on mine O Lyre O Lyre Thy strings of golden fire Fade to their fading, and the hand is chill That touches thee; the once glad brow grows gray? I faint, I wither, while that conclave..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217990813 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217990819 |
| Weight | 0.78 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.54 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 238 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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