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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ANTIGONE: THE LAST JOURNEY, by SOPHOCLES Poet's Biography First Line: Look, my countrymen Last Line: To the bed of my rest. | |||
LOOK, my countrymen, as I go my last road, and see my last of the sunlight now and for ever. Death, who puts all to their sleep, leads my living body to his dark lakeside. For me were no choristers to sing the bride home; no song of the wedding night they sang for me. I shall lie with the waters of Death. Tales of doom I have heard, and hers most pitiful who wed here, out of Phrygia, -- a daughter of Tantalus -- and died on Sipylus top. Taut as ivy the hardness of stone crept up and held her fast. She wastes away, so they tell, in everlasting rain and falls of snow; from under her weeping brows scarped rocks run wet. Most like her I am borne by destiny to the bed of my rest. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ACHILLIS AMATORES: MELTING ICE by SOPHOCLES ACRISIUS: NIGHT FEAR by SOPHOCLES AEGEUS: WIND IN THE POPLARS by SOPHOCLES AJAX: BEFORE DEATH by SOPHOCLES AJAX: SPEECH OF AJAX [UNIVERSAL CHANGE] by SOPHOCLES AJAX: TECMESSA'S APPEAL TO AJAX by SOPHOCLES ANTIGONE, SELECTION by SOPHOCLES ANTIGONE: BURIED ALIVE by SOPHOCLES |
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