Helen of Troy and Other Poems

Favorite Books of Poetry (98 books items)

"Helen of Troy Wild flight on flight against the fading dawn The flames' red wings soar upward duskily. This is the funeral pyre and Troy is dead That sparkled so the day I saw it first, And darkened slowly after. I am she Who loves all beauty--yet I wither it. Why have the high gods made me wreak their wrath-- Forever since my maidenhood to sow Sorrow and blood about me? Lo, they keep Their bitter care above me even now. It was the gods who led me to this lair, That tho' the burning winds shou"

Memorable Book Quotes Part 2 (25 books items)

"Excerpt from "Helen of Troy" "I will not give the grave my hands to hold, My shining hair to light oblivion" Excerpt from "Beatrice" "Am I not floating in a mist of light? O lift me up and I shall reach the sun!" Excerpt from "Erinna "I go toward darkness tho' I lie so still" Excerpt from "The Blind" "I weave a web of fancies Of tears and darkness spun. How shall I sing of sunlight Who never saw the sun?" "