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The Poet's Titles
Translated by Curtis Hidden Page (1903) · From Songs and Sonnets of Pierre de Ronsard (1903)
Holy Euterpe teaches me to hate
The common crowd;
Her sacred laurel-branch marks my estate,
And makes me proud.
She deigns to tune her fluting pipes for me
Within her wood,
And brings them me whene'er my heart may be
In singing mood.
From her own spring she chrismed me, with her lip
She named my name,
And made me share old Rome's high mastership
And Athens fame.
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Ronsard, Pierre de. “The Poet's Titles.” Translated by Curtis Hidden Page. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ronsard/60/.
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Ronsard, Pierre de. “The Poet's Titles.” Translated by Curtis Hidden Page. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ronsard/60/.
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