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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TEMPE, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poet's Biography First Line: From tempe's vale next ancient peneus came Last Line: And varying greens in the gay covert shone. Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Tempe (vale), Greece | |||
FROM Tempe's vale next ancient Peneus came, That fertile vale immortalized in fame! Where Messos' blue-eyed nymphs delight to rove, Tempe o'erhung with many a circling grove! The bay's aspiring and straight trunk he brought; The uprooted beech, with stately branches fraught; The plane, whose foliage spreads a trembling shade; The cypress tall, that lifts to heaven its head; And the fam'd tree, that wept, with sister love, The youth destroyed by the red bolts of Jove, -- All these he amply wove around the throne, And varying greens in the gay covert shone. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TEMPE by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES AD LESBIAM by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS SONNET: 13. OUT OF CATALLUS by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS VOLPONE: TO CELIA by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS CARMINA: 31 by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS CARMINA: 69: TO RUFUS by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS CARMINA, 70: FEMALE INCONSTANCY by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS CARMINA: 72 by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS CARMINA: 85 by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS |
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