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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SUPPLIANTS: THE WORLD'S HARMONIOUS PLAN, by AESCHYLUS Poet's Biography First Line: O might we know beyond all doubt Last Line: Repentant in its ruinous train! | |||
FIRST VOICE O might we know beyond all doubt What Zeus would -- SECOND VOICE Nay, past searching out! God's will before our human sight Shines against blackest foil of night Only with dull and smouldering light. FIRST VOICE But all effects his will intends Fall to safe undefeated ends. SECOND VOICE Tangled in gloomy thickets blind And close beyond discerning wind The dark ways of his secret mind. THE WHOLE CHORUS From towering Hope's ambitious height Down to Perdition's blackest pit He hurls the aspiring thoughts of Man, Yet stirs not, yet exerts no force: Calm in his will's enabled might His throned imaginations sit, And see the World's harmonious Plan Move onward in its ordered course. So let his eyes behold and see On earth now what intemperate sin, What violent heats of froward youth The old evil stock buds forth again! Thus amorous and athirst for me, With heart's own folly spurred within To madness, -- and the mocked heart's ruth Repentant in its ruinous train! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRAGMENT FROM THE AGAMEMNON OF AESCHYLOS by AESCHYLUS AGAMEMNON: CHORUS by AESCHYLUS AGAMEMNON: HELEN. CHORUS by AESCHYLUS AGAMEMNON: THE BEACONS by AESCHYLUS AGAMEMNON: THE PURPLE CARPER by AESCHYLUS AGAMEMNON: THE SACRIFICE OF IPHIGENIA. CHORUS by AESCHYLUS AGAMEMNON: WELCOME TO AGAMEMNON by AESCHYLUS CHOEPHOROI: INVOCATION OF AGAMEMNON'S GHOST by AESCHYLUS CHOEPHOROI: ORESTES GOES MAD by AESCHYLUS CRY WOE, WOE, AND LET THE GOOD PREVAIL, FR. AGAMEMNON by AESCHYLUS |
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