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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHORUS OF CLOUD-MAIDENS: STROPHE, FR. THE CLOUDS, by ARISTOPHANES Poet's Biography First Line: Cloud-maidens that float on for ever Last Line: We may look on the land. | |||
Cloud-maidens that float on for ever, Dew-sprinkled, fleet bodies, and fair, Let us rise from our Sire's loud river, Great Ocean, and soar through the air To the peaks of the pine-covered mountains where the pines hang as tresses of hair. Let us seek the watchtowers undaunted, Where the well-watered cornfields abound, And through murmurs of rivers nymph-haunted The songs of the sea-waves resound; And the sun in the sky never wearies of spreading his radiance around. Let us cast off the haze Of the mists from our band, Till with far-seeing gaze We may look on the land. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THESMOPHORIAZUSAE: WOMEN'S CHORUS by ARISTOPHANES BACCHUS AND THE FROGS by ARISTOPHANES CHORUS OF THE CLOUD-MAIDEN: ANTISTROPHE, FR. THE CLOUDS by ARISTOPHANES LYSISTRATA: HOW THE WOMEN WILL STOP WAR by ARISTOPHANES LYSISTRATA: HYMN OF PEACE; CHORUSES OF ATHENIANS AND SPARTANS by ARISTOPHANES PARLIAMENT OF WOMEN: PRAXAGORA REHEARSES by ARISTOPHANES THE ACHARNIANS: A PLEA FOR THE ENEMY by ARISTOPHANES THE ACHARNIANS: IN PRAISE OF THE POET by ARISTOPHANES THE BIRDS: THE BIRDS' LIFE by ARISTOPHANES THE BIRDS: THE BUILDING OF CLOUDCUCKOOCITY by ARISTOPHANES THE BIRDS: THE HOOPOE'S CALL TO HIS WIFE PROCNE, THE NIGHTINGALE by ARISTOPHANES |
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