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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DIVINE PHILOSOPHER, by EMPEDOCLES First Line: Ye friends, who in the mighty city dwell Last Line: Where lies advantage and the better way. | |||
YE friends, who in the mighty city dwell Along the yellow Acragas hard by The Acropolis, ye stewards of good works, The stranger's refuge venerable and kind, All hail, O friends! But unto ye I walk As god immortal now, no more as man, On all sides honoured fittingly and well, Crowned both with fillets and with flowering wreaths. When with my throngs of men and women I come To thriving cities, I am sought by prayers, And thousands follow me that they may ask Where lies advantage and the better way. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BLOOD-GUILTY by EMPEDOCLES THE LIMITATIONS OF KNOWLEDGE by EMPEDOCLES ON THE BUST OF HELEN BY CANOVA by GEORGE GORDON BYRON INDIAN NAMES by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY DELIA. AN ELEGY by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD PRELUDE TO FAITH by MARJORIE MERRILL BLISS AN OXFORD IDYLL by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN EPIGRAM ON BAD ROADS by ROBERT BURNS |
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