From Vergil's Fourth Georgic
Parted waters admit a figure and lead him into his great mother’s watery domain. He passes groves untouched by mortals and lakes not replenished by rain, and sees the sources of rivers beneath the earth. The verse then addresses Eridanus, describing its golden horns and unmatched force as it rushes into the sea.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley · Genre: Narrative Poetry, Classical Poetry · 224 words
First lines
[VERSES 360 ET SEQ.]
And the cloven waters like a chasm of mountains / Stood, and received him in its mighty portal / And led him through the deep's untrampled fountains
He went in wonder through the path immortal / Of his great Mother and her humid reign / And groves profaned not by the step of mortal
Which sounded as he passed, and lakes which rain / Replenished not girt round by marble caves / ‘Wildered by the watery motion of the main
Genres
- Narrative Poetry — The verses follow a figure as parted waters admit and lead him, then recount his passage through groves and lakes and his sight of rivers beneath the earth.
- Classical Poetry — The title identifies a passage from Vergil’s Fourth Georgic; the verses name rivers including Phasis and Enipeus and portray Eridanus with golden horns on a taurine brow.
Tags
rivers · subterranean waters · marble caves · mythology · classical allusion · translation
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Narrative Poetry, Classical Poetry
- Length: 224 words
- Structure: 1 section, 8 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Fairly Difficult (10th-12th Grade)
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