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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON A FLYLEAF OF THEOCRITUS, by JAMES MAURICE THOMPSON Poet's Biography First Line: Those were good times, in olden days Last Line: And with his goat-hoof keeping time! Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, Maurice Variant Title(s): Written On A Fly-leaf Of Theocritus Subject(s): Poetry & Poets | |||
Those were good times, in olden days, Of which the poet has his dreams, When gods beset the woodland ways, And lay in wait by all the streams. One could be sure of something then Severely simple, simply grand, Or keenly, subtly sweet, as when Venus and Love went hand in hand. Now I would give (such is my need) All the world's store of rhythm and rhyme To see Pan fluting on a reed And with his goat-hoof keeping time! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB THE BALLAD OF CHICKAMAUGA [SEPTEMBER 19-20, 1863] by JAMES MAURICE THOMPSON |
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