Poems of Conformity (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Poems of Conformity

IN Ilion fifty towers are set, whereof Hector, that strongest, who is set to be A warning and a terror toward the sea, Is glad at heart on this day's dawn for love To whom with music through the temples move Feet of a maiden, maiden-circled, she Whose name being called of men Andromache Gleams like white Pergamos all peers' names above.

Troy many-palaced, single-lorded Troy, Virgin like Pallas' spear to Pallas' grip, Like Aphrodite land-poised from the tide, Joyous and crowned city, this new joy By Hector's hand crowns and by Priam's lip Salutes, and as in bridal hails the bride.

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Excerpt from Poems of Conformity

Proserpina

Now our love returns at last,
For the secret months are spent!
She hath laid aside her vast
Majesty of government.
Mother, now thy child is found!
O! we can but look aghast:
Heart and tongue alike are bound.

Proserpina, O was this,
This the loveliness we saw
Or hath royalty in Dis
Girded thee about with awe?
Did this grave and fateful voice,
These thy regnant hands of law,
Ever in our games rejoice?

Goddess' child indeed thou art,
And thy mother now no more
Presseth thee against her heart
As at morning heretofore:
Courtesy she yieldeth, such
As her sisters, on their part,
Grant thee, without smile or touch.

'Sister' cried our lips of old;
'Sister' saith thy mother now,
While our frighted eyes behold
Deity upon thy brow.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.