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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO FAME, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY First Line: Alas! For any latmian boy who durst Last Line: And snare me also with a single smile! Subject(s): Fame; Reputation | |||
ALAS! for any Latmian boy who durst Excite thine ardours, Fame! Thou wilt reject Him in an hour, and leave him, lone, accurst, To shiver through long winters of neglect. Capricious goddess! hugging dead men's bones, Embracing scanty hair'd senility, Or dooméd youths, whose cruel death atones The strange bright sin of being loved by thee, Thy broideries are moss, thy borders mould, And all thy raiment smells of dust and clay, Thy brow is hard, thy narrow lips are cold, Thine eyes belie what thy false mouth doth say: And yet, alluring mistress, turn awhile And snare me also with a single smile! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THEM AND US by LUCILLE CLIFTON A MAN TO A WOMAN by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS DEATH AND FAME by ALLEN GINSBERG EARTH'S IMMORTALITIES: FAME by ROBERT BROWNING STANZAS WRITTEN ON THE ROAD BETWEEN FLORENCE AND PISA by GEORGE GORDON BYRON PROVIDE, PROVIDE by ROBERT FROST A CHILD'S THOUGHTS by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY |
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