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Hannibal

by Robert Frost

Robert Frost

Was there even a cause too lost,
Ever a cause that was lost too long,
Or that showed with the lapse of time to vain
For the generous tears of youth and song?




Quotes of the Day

My son, ask for thyself another kingdom, for that which I leave is too small for thee.
• King Phillip II of Macedonia


Poems of the Day
  • Deborah Ager
    The Lake
    by Deborah Ager
    The yard half a yard, half a lake blue as a corpse. The lake will tell things you long to hear: get away from here. Three o'clock. Dry leaves rat-tat like maracas. Whisky-colored grass