Theocritus

Oscar Wilde * Track #36 On Poems

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Oscar Wilde

1881

Theocritus by Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde

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Wilde’s only villanelle, Theocritus consists of many references to Greek mythology, for which Wilde showed a great passion throughout many of his early poems.

Theocritus, the leading figure of Greek bucolic (pastoral) poetry, was a literary figure from 270 BC whom Wilde admired and was inspired by....

Theocritus Annotated

O SINGER of Persephone!
In the dim meadows desolate
Dost thou remember Sicily?

Still through the ivy flits the bee
Where Amaryllis lies in state
O Singer of Persephone!

Simætha calls on Hecate
And hears the wild dogs at the gate;
Dost thou remember Sicily?

Still by the light and laughing sea
Poor Polypheme bemoans his fate:
O Singer of Persephone!

And still in boyish rivalry
Young Daphnis challenges his mate:
Dost thou remember Sicily?

Slim Lacon keeps a goat for thee,
For thee the jocund shepherds wait,
O Singer of Persephone!
Dost thou remember Sicily?

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