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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EURIPIDES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poet's Biography First Line: To him the fate we bear was like a sea Last Line: That builded on the sea, loved his name most. Subject(s): Death; Euripides (484-406 B.c.); Hearts; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Sin; Dead, The; Ocean | |||
To him the fate we bear was like a sea That sweeps above the many ships that sailed, And waits as home for all that sail again. Bitter intolerably, and deep as death; But shining, too, shining and full of spray, In color stained lovelier than the sky, Singing a requiem for them that die Adventuring on its bounds, or, dauntless, sing When roaring and inevitable wash Heaves down the prows. . . . His heart was full of stars, His prayers only to gods that deathlessly Abide and dream no sin. And Syracuse That builded on the sea, loved his name most. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HALL OF OCEAN LIFE by JOHN HOLLANDER JULY FOURTH BY THE OCEAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS BOATS IN A FOG by ROBINSON JEFFERS CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE FIGUREHEAD by LEONIE ADAMS OVERTONES by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY |
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