Ode on a grecian urn
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This 3 sentence poem describes nature as an untouched bride of quietness and child of silence. It asks the natural historian, or nature itself, to express a sweet floral tale or legend through its shape of deities, mortals, temples or dales of Arcady involving men, gods, maidens, mad pursuit, struggle, pipes and wild ecstasy.
Ode on a grecian urn
- 1. Submitted by Ayesha Arif Sana Ishaq
- 3. Thou still unravished bride of quietness; Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time, Sylvan historian , who can’t thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme; What least fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals , or of both , In temple or the dales of Arcady ? What men or gods are these? What maidens loath ? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape ? What pipes and timberals ? What wild ecstasy?