Living
Penthesileia, Bright and Bold
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
Penthesileia, bright and bold,
Led forth her Amazons of old,
And every man was fain to yield
Who met her on the Attic field
Save Theseus; by that bosom bare
Undazzled, or that golden hair;
He, without shuddering, dared to twist
Its rings around his stubborn fist.
The times are alter'd: now again
Our Attic virgins scour the plain,
And Pallas is observed to rear
O'er those her Aegis and her spear.
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