NATURE'S CALM
by: Alcman
 HE mountain brows, the rocks,
the peaks, are sleeping,
- Uplands and gorges hush!
- The thousand moorland things are stillness keeping;
- The beasts under each bush
- Crouch, and the hivèd bees
- Rest in their honeyed ease;
- In the purple sea fish lie as they were dead,
- And each bird folds his wing over his head.
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This English translation, by Edwin
Arnold, of 'Nature's Calm' is reprinted from Greek Poets in
English Verse. Ed. William Hyde Appleton. Cambridge: The
Riverside Press, 1893. |
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