Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Epigram

Listen to: 

Epigram (:34)

by Ernest Dowson 

performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode


Because I am idolatrous and have besought,
With grievous supplication and consuming prayer,
The admirable image that my dreams have wrought
Out of her swan's neck and her dark, abundant hair:
The jealous gods, who brook no worship save their own, 
Turned my live idol marble and her heart to stone. 

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