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Hero Her Love

                                                            Hero – Her Love             But when       Heroical    Leander swam across Swift Hellespont to claim the love Of Hero for his own and prove    Faith, in its sacred cause,                                     He’d sworn       Was stoical:                                                     To make her wife          What then?.                                             And consummate, in bliss,         […]

Divine Delight

                Divine Delight      (Diana Finds Endymion on Latmos)   Heedless of her path, she slowly stepped Pensively amongst the night-dark leaves,      (Drowning in her sea-deep thoughts), Whilst pain-tinged sighs her hurt heart heaved.           As she divinely languished, It seemed the mournful trees had caught The dismalness […]

Herakles

                           Herakles                  (Twilight of the Gods)        Atlas, who on his brawny shoulders bore The heavens of sublime mythology, Waited impatiently for Herakles To take his burden, as the gods decreed.      Those gods looked down from their celestial height To […]

St George

Dragon

                                   Dragon   Snake-neck extended like an armoured lance;      Croc-toothed flame-jaws agape; spike-tongue out-thrust;          Black smoke-trails from broad nostrils streaming; barb-           Tipped, saw-fretted writhe-tail all alash; huge      As a whale: a Dragon is watching me […]

The Greek Myths

                      The Greek Myths   The Greek Myths    (After re-reading Robert Graves’s The Greek Myths)                                        i.        The Greek mythologers have given to the world, (In stories of their great divinities and tales Of heroes and of heroines almost as great As […]

Balshazzar's Feast

 Balshazzar’s Feast   Balshzzar’s Feast                     (539 BC)   Wild was the music played           In Babylon;      Rare the fine foods arrayed      And rich the robes displayed           In Babylon, At King Balshazzar’s feast.   How merry was the sport           In Babylon,      And […]

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