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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THEOCRITUS, by ANNIE (ADAMS) FIELDS First Line: Ay! Unto thee belong Last Line: And beckoning signal of a sail unfurled! | |||
AY! Unto thee belong The pipe and song, Theocritus, -- Loved by the satyr and the faun! To thee the olive and the vine, To thee the Mediterranean pine, And the soft lapping sea! Thine, Bacchus, Thine, the blood-red revels, Thine, the bearded goat! Soft valleys unto thee, And Aphrodite's shrine, And maidens veiled in falling robes of lawn! But unto us, to us, The stalwart glories of the North; Ours is the sounding main, And ours the voices uttering forth By midnight round these cliffs a mighty strain; A tale of viewless islands in the deep Washed by the waves' white fire; Of mariners rocked asleep, In the great cradle, far from Grecian ire Of Neptune and his train; To us, to us, the dark-leaved shadow and the shining birch, The flight of gold through hollow woodlands driven, Soft dying of the year with many a sigh, These, all, to us are given! And eyes that eager evermore shall search The hidden seed, and searching find again Unfading blossoms of a fadeless spring; These, these, to us! The sacred youth and maid, Coy and half afraid; The sorrowful earthly pall, Winter and wintry rain, And autumn's gathered grain, With whispering music in their fall; These unto us! And unto thee, Theocritus, To thee, The immortal childhood of the world, The laughing waters of an inland sea, And beckoning signal of a sail unfurled! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BEETHOVEN'S SIXTH SYMPHONY (ANDANTE) by ANNIE (ADAMS) FIELDS CEDAR MOUNTAIN [AUGUST 9, 1862] by ANNIE (ADAMS) FIELDS DEATH OF HAWTHORNE by ANNIE (ADAMS) FIELDS LITTLE GUINEVER by ANNIE (ADAMS) FIELDS ON WAKING FROM A DREAMLESS SLEEP by ANNIE (ADAMS) FIELDS THE RETURN by ANNIE (ADAMS) FIELDS FRIENDS BEYOND by THOMAS HARDY IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 104 by ALFRED TENNYSON THE TWO GLASSES by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX THE SECOND DAYES LAMENTATION OF THE AFFECTIONATE SHEPHEARD by RICHARD BARNFIELD |
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