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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BACCHAE: BACCHANAL, by EURIPIDES Poet's Biography First Line: O for cyprus / island of aphrodite! Last Line: Thy servants go. | |||
O FOR Cyprus, island of Aphrodite! There go the Loves in fields familiar; they who beguile man's heart awhile on his road to death. O for Paphos, thick with fruits secretly watered by far-off Nile! Streaming from hundred mouths he comes, a stranger, stolen under the sea -- Nile, whom no rain feeds. O for Pieria, home of Muses! There, to the very heart of beauty, a holy place on slant Olympus, there, there lead me, Bromios, lead me, O swift runner, Spirit attended by cries ecstatic ringing behind thee. There are the Graces, soul's desire is there; there, in joy of worship, with god's good will thy servants go. | 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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