WRITTEN AT THE TIME OF PRINCE LEOPOLD'S PROPOSED ELECTION FOR THE THRONE OF GREECE Now we may roam along thy flowery dales, Fair Greece! and where each ancient fountain flows; Now may we pluck at will the lily and rose, That bloom so sweetly down thy noble vales. How strange to hear that Attic nightingale Of old KOLONOS, dear to thee and us! Or haply catch - if listening may avail To catch - the lonely voice of OEdipus, Or wail of choral sorrow from the Past For wild Medea's wrath. On plain and wold Thy fanes are free to crumble undefac'd, For Britain's future poets to behold, That they may keep that sum of memories fast Which haunts thy ruins from the days of old! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JOHN ERICSSON DAY MEMORIAL, 1918 by CARL SANDBURG OFFICE PARTY: DISTAFF VIEW by KAREN SWENSON VERSES TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS OF YORK by JOHN DRYDEN LESSER EPISTLES: TO BERNARD LINTOTT by JOHN GAY TO THE WHITE FIENDS by CLAUDE MCKAY SHERIDAN'S RIDE [DECEMBER 19, 1864] by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ |