Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, REALITY, by ANNA WICKHAM


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First Line: Only a starveling singer seeks
Last Line: Rather than her, we'll sing reality.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs.
Subject(s): Reality


Only a starveling singer seeks
The stuff of songs among the Greeks.
Juno is old,
Jove's loves are cold;
Tales over-told.
By a new risen Attic stream
A mortal singer dreamed a dream.
Fixed he not Fancy's habitation,
Nor set in bonds Imagination.
There are new waters, and a new Humanity.
For all old myths give us the dream to be.
We are outwearied with Persephone;
Rather than her, we'll sing Reality.





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