Grass of Parnassus
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Grass of Parnassus: Rhymes Old and New is by Andrew Lang. The contents list sections headed, among others, Verses, Sonnets and Translations. The contents list poem titles including Martial in Town, April on Tweed, Tired of Towns and Scythe Song.
A poem headed Grass of Parnassus speaks of a pale star that by the lochs of Galloway keeps its hour while Autumn ebbs away. A poem headed Colinette, written for a sketch by Mr. G. Leslie, R.A., asks in what fields and by what stream Colinette's home was set, and names Loire, Seine, Marne and Rhone. A poem headed A Late Convert, marked with the name Paulus Silentiarius, has a speaker who in youth had never been the servant of the Paphian Queen and who in later age bows the neck to Cypris.
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- Andrew Lang
- Pages
- 68
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Poetry
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