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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET, by FRANCOIS MAYNARD Poet's Biography First Line: Rome! Who beheld the world before you bend Last Line: And cato died supporting pompey's claim. | |||
ROME! who beheld the world before you bend, Those two famed heroes, mighty conquerors, Who on Thessalian plain their war did end, Truth, in the list of tyrants, blackly scores. You thought that Pompey armed for your defence, And was the prop of Rome's prosperity; Ambitious rivalry did both incense, And both took arms to prostrate Liberty. Had Julius fallen, the other, firmly placed, By a new triumph had your fame disgraced, And forced the consuls to attend his car: Both for their patricidal strife I blame, Although the gods took Caesar's part in war, And Cato died supporting Pompey's claim. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FRANCOIS MAYNARD TO THE CARDINAL DE RICHELIEU by FRANCOIS MAYNARD TO MALHERBE by FRANCOIS MAYNARD WRITTEN OVER A STUDY by FRANCOIS MAYNARD THE LOVE POEM by KAREN SWENSON A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 3. AMARYLLIS by THOMAS CAMPION THE MARYLAND BATTALION [AUGUST 27, 1776] by JOHN WILLIAMSON PALMER AND LOCUSTS BLOOM TOMORROW by MILDRED TELFORD BARNWELL THE AGNOSTIC by MATHILDE BLIND NATALIA'S RESURRECTION: 2 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |
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