(Hart Crane, 1899-1933) Plato s...
(Hart Crane, 1899-1933) Plato says the the omnipotents sent him weeping away, empty- Handed from Hades, deceiving him with a shadow Of his bride, not returning her actual dead body Because he was solely a poor-spirited musician Enchanting himself into the underworld Rather than joining her the accurate way, by dying. Orpheus go downed through the gate at Tainaron And sang in the same manner poignantly of his squandered wife He set even the bottomless spaces grieving, unless he was not going to desecrate the altars With blood or donate his lyre to the Shades. He was not ready to swallow oblivion Or share the
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