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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MEDEA: SHIFTING FORTUNE, by EURIPIDES Poet's Biography First Line: Now backward the founts of the sacred streams are driven Last Line: Many a tale of the deeds 'twixt us and man could tell! | |||
NOW backward the founts of the sacred streams are driven, All's o'erturned and Justice becomes but as Wrong. Crook'd grow man's counsels, and Faith in God's sight given Fails that aforetime was strong. But of us now songs shall be other, new fame shall crown our days, Yea for Woman also comes her hour of praise, Woman no more shall be made a thing of shame in song. And they shall be silenced, the bards of old that chide us, Harping still their stories of false brides that fell. Well that the Singer, Apollo, hath denied us Song and the lyre's magic spell! Else our tongues had given Man answer, and loud our lips had rolled Strains to challenge his. Ay, well the years of old Many a tale of the deeds 'twixt us and Man could tell! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ALCESTIS: BEREAVEMENT by EURIPIDES ALCESTIS: CHORUS. THE STRENGTH OF FATE by EURIPIDES ALCESTIS: LAMENT FOR ALCESTIS by EURIPIDES ALCESTIS: SCENE 1 by EURIPIDES ALCESTIS: SCENE 2 by EURIPIDES ALCESTIS: SCENE 3. FUNERAL MARCH by EURIPIDES ALCESTIS: SCENE 4 by EURIPIDES ALCESTIS: SCENE 5 by EURIPIDES ALCESTIS: TO ALCESTIS by EURIPIDES ANDROMACHE: THE KINGS OF TROY by EURIPIDES |
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