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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IMITATRIX ALES, by AULUS LICINIUS ARCHIAS First Line: I was a jay-bird, screeching back the noise Last Line: Having renounced my taste for mimicry. Alternate Author Name(s): Archias | |||
I WAS a jay-bird, screeching back the noise Of fishermen or foresters or herds; Often with Echo's iterative voice My mocking beak would caw a string of words: Now dumb and tongueless here in earth I lie, Having renounced my taste for mimicry. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A TOMB BY THE SEA by AULUS LICINIUS ARCHIAS ECHO by AULUS LICINIUS ARCHIAS STREET-CRIES: 7. A SONG OF LOVE by SIDNEY LANIER FOR LAUREL AND HARDY ON MY WORKROOM WALL by DAVID WAGONER LOVE'S CAUTION by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES HIS PRAYER FOR ABSOLUTION by ROBERT HERRICK THE LAST CHANTEY by RUDYARD KIPLING SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 2 by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY ON THE RANGE by BARCROFT HENRY BOAKE |
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