East and West

Bücher

Angebote / Angebote:

Excerpt from East and West: The Discovery of America and Other PoemsEast and West.Part I.The First Meeting of East and West.Yet once again discordant trumpets blareTo mar the music of the hemispheres.So heard the ancient world a cry of doom, Of agony which blossomed into prayer, And saw the laden treasuries of yearsSpilled on the flaming altar of her tomb.Fragrant the memory of Arcadian flutes, And shepherds' dance in groves whose Orphic lutesFlood space with tune, of Jove's Olympian plainsWhere strive earth's naked gods, and gilded fanesCarving warm outline from Corinthian skies, Or cool Castalian depths where mystery lies, Or the broad terraces of ParthenonCrowned with the sunflash from the virgin's shield, Whose proud chivalric bloom of Attic fieldIn dance of throbbing marbles surges onAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.