Or is it all illusion? Do the years Cover with glamor what was tawdry then? Did moralists and such like thunder when Antigone got drunk on Attic beers, And danced too freely mid the eager leers Of Plato's seniors, who bought up the glen To prove to Athens that they lived like men -- And gave Antigone the college cheers? It may be so. I should not think it strange. Herodias, Antigone, La Belle -- One sisterhood. Perhaps we do not change As much as some pretend to think. Ah, well -- Don't let me spoil your pleasure in the show -- For me, my vision of the long ago! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BIANCA AMONG THE NIGHTINGALES by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 77. SOUL'S BEAUTY by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI WHEN I READ THE BOOK by WALT WHITMAN HE GIVES HIS BELOVED CERTAIN RHYMES by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE WARTONS AND OTHER EARLY ROMANTIC LANDSCAPE-POETS by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 47 by WILLIAM BOSWORTH |