THEOCRITUS (A Villanelle)
by: Oscar Wilde
- SINGER of Persephone!
- In the dim meadows desolate
- Dost thou remember Sicily?
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- Still through the ivy flits the bee
- Where Amaryllis lies in state;
- O Singer of Persephone!
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- Simætha calls on Hecate
- And hears the wild dogs at the gate;
- Dost thou remember Sicily?
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- Still by the light and laughing sea
- Poor Polypheme bemoans his fate;
- O Singer of Persephone!
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- And still in boyish rivalry
- Young Daphnis challenges his mate;
- Dost thou remember Sicily?
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- Slim Lacon keeps a goat for thee,
- For thee the jocund shepherds wait;
- O Singer of Persephone!
- Dost thou remember Sicily?
'Theocritus' is reprinted from An
Anthology of Modern Verse. Ed. A. Methuen. London: Methuen
& Co., 1921. |
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