Category: Poetry

Five Men and Pompey: A Series of Dramatic Portraits

Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943· 2 chapters· 4,875 words

Twelve years! Twelve years of striving! and at last My power is--secure? Still Pompey lives And has an army and Metellus strives To wipe out his defeats. The net is cast: Cast, and draws ever tighter: and my men Grumble and mutter, near to mutiny. Perpenna stirs up treason: li...

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1. Part 1

Twelve years! Twelve years of striving! and at last My power is--secure? Still Pompey lives And has an army and Metellus strives To wipe out his defeats. The net is cast: Cast,...

2. Part 2

I go with the Republic. The Empire stands by your side. You love her now. In a time not far You will look in your heart where your dead hopes are, And curse her for a lamia, The...