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To Julia Marlowe
From The Poems of Henry van Dyke (1925)
Arts & Sciences
Long had I loved this "Attic shape," the brede
Of marble maidens round this urn divine:
But when your golden voice began to read,
The empty urn was filled with Chian wine.
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Codex Note
From "Epigrams, Greetings, and Inscriptions". Subtitle in the source: Reading Keats' Ode on a Grecian Urn.
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Dyke, Henry van. “To Julia Marlowe.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/vandyke/99/.
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Dyke, Henry van. “To Julia Marlowe.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/vandyke/99/.
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