Famous Herodotus Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Herodotus poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous herodotus poems. These examples illustrate what a famous herodotus poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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From enterprise, to their long last,
Gentlemen.
Sophocles, Plato, Socrates,
Gentlemen,
Pythagoras, Thucydides,
Herodotus, and Homer,--yea,
Clement, Augustin, Origen,
Burnt brightlier towards their setting-day,
Gentlemen.
And ye, red-lipped and smooth-browed; list,
Gentlemen;
Much is there waits you we have missed;
Much lore we leave you worth the knowing,
Much, much has lain outside our ken;
Nay, rush not: time serves: we are going,
Gentlemen....Read more of this...
by
Hardy, Thomas
...The ground verdigris, fluffy with young mosquitoes. Waters
as sacred as these, as fatted with reeds. Bronze palm planted
to Sun. Lizards, Nile alligators, hindquarters
rolling on granite sphinx-chippings. Air salted with confident
brown larks, Travelling, you remember (mind
upturning these foreign priests, finding
the causes) that stamen-summit: white lon...Read more of this...
by
Padel, Ruth
...ill, pourtray'dThe fields, "whose summer dust with blood was laid;"And near Herodotus his ninefold roll display'd,Father of history; and Euclid's vestThe heaven-taught symbols of that art express'd[Pg 393]That measures matter, form, and empty space,And calculates the planets' heavenly ra...Read more of this...
by
Petrarch, Francesco
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