THESE lame hexameters the strong-wing'd music of Homer! No -- but a most burlesque barbarous experiment. When was a harsher sound ever heard, ye Muses, in England? When did a frog coarser croak upon our Helicon? Hexameters no worse than daring Germany gave us, Barbarous experiment, barbarous hexameters. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FORERUNNERS by GEORGE HERBERT CHRIST IN THE UNIVERSE by ALICE MEYNELL THE BRAVEST BATTLE by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER ON A SOLDIER FALLEN IN THE PHILIPPINES by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY THE LAIRD O' COCKPEN by CAROLINA OLIPHANT NAIRNE |