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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CRETENSES: SONG OF THE INITIATED, by EURIPIDES Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of europa's tyrian line Last Line: A bacchos of the mailed priests. | |||
LORD of Europa's Tyrian line, Zeus-born, who holdest at thy feet The hundred citadels of Crete, I seek to thee from that dim shrine, Roofed by the quick and carven beam, By Chalyb steel and wild bull's blood In flawless joints of cypress wood Made steadfast. There in one pure stream My days have run, the servant I, Initiate, of Idaean Jove; Where midnight Zagreus roves, I rove; I have endured his thunder-cry; Fulfilled his red and bleeding feasts; Held the Great Mother's mountain flame; I am set free and named by name A Bacchos of the Mailed Priests. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ALCESTIS: BEREAVEMENT by EURIPIDES ALCESTIS: CHORUS. THE STRENGTH OF FATE by EURIPIDES ALCESTIS: LAMENT FOR ALCESTIS by EURIPIDES ALCESTIS: SCENE 1 by EURIPIDES ALCESTIS: SCENE 2 by EURIPIDES ALCESTIS: SCENE 3. FUNERAL MARCH by EURIPIDES ALCESTIS: SCENE 4 by EURIPIDES ALCESTIS: SCENE 5 by EURIPIDES ALCESTIS: TO ALCESTIS by EURIPIDES ANDROMACHE: THE KINGS OF TROY by EURIPIDES |
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