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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A DEAD SONG-WRITER, by LUCILIUS Poet's Biography First Line: Eutychides is dead, and what is worse Last Line: Is where in hell, now he's in hell, to go. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucillius; Carus Titus Lucilius Subject(s): Death; Dead, The | |||
EUTYCHIDES is dead, and what is worse (fly wretched shades!) he's coming with his verse. And listen! they have burned upon his pyre two tons of music, and a ton of lyre. You're caught, poor ghosts. But what I want to know is where in Hell, now he's in hell, to go. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY |
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