Lines Written To A Translator Of Greek Poetry.

A wild spring upland all this charmed page,     Where, in the early dawn, the maenads rage,     Mad, chaste, and lovely! This, a darker spot     Where lone Antigone bewails her lot.     Death for her spouse, her bridal-bed the tomb.     And this, again, is some rich palace-room.     Where Phsedra pines: "0 woodlands! 0, the sea!"     Or some sweet walk of Sappho, beauteously     Built o'er with rose, with bloom of purple grapes!     They are all here, the ancient Attic shapes     Of passion, beauty, terror, love, and shame;     Proud shadows, you do summon them by name:     Achaean princes, Helen, the young god.     Fair Dionysus, CEdipus, who trod     Such ways of doom! Aye, these and more than these     You call across the ages and the seas!     And each one, answering, doth dream he lists     To the great voices of old tragedists!