WITHIN your Roman house, Your white and calm abode, Your Lares in their niche (Nereid, nymph, and god) Accept my alien vows Of friendship to their friend; By bronze and marble rich You worship, yet I send (I the old koroplast) Image and figurine Enamelled with gaudy plumes, Corinthian, Pergamene. Keep them until the last Behind your Lares hidden: Such mimes were meant for tombs, Let them to yours be bidden. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE NIGHTINGALE by PAUL VERLAINE THE PRISONER OF CHILLON: INTRODUCTORY SONNET by GEORGE GORDON BYRON A DRINKING SONG by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS WINTER BURIAL by HENRY BELLAMANN PSALM 52 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE NEW YEAR'S EVE by MATHILDE BLIND THE FOURE MONARCHIES: ASSYRIAN. SEMIRAMIS by ANNE BRADSTREET |