Friday, January 3, 2003

The Loss Of The Eurydice Comments

Rating: 2.8

The Eurydice—it concerned thee, O Lord:
Three hundred souls, O alas! on board,
Some asleep unawakened, all un-
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Fabrizio Frosini 27 February 2016

''.. Eurydicen vox ipsa et frigida lingua, Ah miseram Eurydicen! anima fugiente vocabat: Eurydicen toto referebant flumine ripae. '' [Virgilius, Georgica, IV,525-527]

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Michael Morgan 29 December 2014

This astonishing poem is a ten plus; It's up there with Lycidas.

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

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