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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A MIGHTY RUNNER, by NICARCHUS Poet's Biography First Line: The day when charmus ran with five / in arcady Last Line: He would have been eleventh. Alternate Author Name(s): Nicarchos Variant Title(s): Variations Of Greek Themes: 2. A Mighty Runner | |||
THE day when Charmus ran with five In Arcady, as I'm alive, He came in seventh.--"Five and one Make seven, you say? It can't be done."-- Well, if you think it needs a note, A friend in a fur overcoat Ran with him, crying all the while, "You'll beat 'em, Charmus, by a mile!" And so he came in seventh. Therefore, good Zoilus, you see The thing is plain as plain can be; And with four more for company, He would have been eleventh. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...O DREAMS, O DESTINATIONS by CECIL DAY LEWIS PLEDGE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON MY MOTHER, 1930 by KAREN SWENSON STANZAS WRITTEN ON THE ROAD BETWEEN FLORENCE AND PISA by GEORGE GORDON BYRON THE POPLAR FIELD by WILLIAM COWPER THE HABIT OF PERFECTION by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS THE LEADEN-EYED by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY FITZ-GREENE HALLECK, AT THE UNVEILING OF HIS STATUE by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER |
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