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Ilium Poems - Poems about Ilium


CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 4
...CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 4 Catullus LXV aka Carmina 65 loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Hortalus, I’m exhausted by relentless grief, and have thus abandoned the learned virgi......Read the rest...
Categories: ilium, brother, death, death of
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hip
...How delicately you connect my whole physique, The upper part and the lower half into one; Leaving no organ to be unworkably weak, Uniting the whole like the universe fine-spun...! Joining my l......Read the rest...
Categories: ilium, body,
Form: Sonnet



You Miss My Arms
...You do not deserve this nonchalant ilium that remains and that disarms for missing my arms......Read the rest...
Categories: ilium, allusion, appreciation, metaphor, missing,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Grace Thompson 1894-1917
...Grace Thompson 1894-1917 At the timbered railroad depot, On lower Philadelphia Street, Across from the lumber yard and the state school there, I spent many an erstwhile afternoon, S......Read the rest...
Categories: ilium, death,
Form: Epitaph
9 11
...9 11 Oh, the tall towers of Ilium, shining golden in the morning sun, Are tumbled ignominiously, and a myriad Souls are turned to dust: And this sudden host Of untold grief Disappears......Read the rest...
Categories: ilium, america, death, history,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Tyrian Sails Across Stormy Seas Sailed
...Tyrian Sails Across Stormy Seas Sailed Tyrian sails across stormy seas sailed, and a bold prince they deliver At every port cheerily he was hailed, as an arrow straight from its quiver Bade he......Read the rest...
Categories: ilium, conflict, history, passion, romance,
Form: Rhyme

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