Ballads and Poems of Tragic Life

Example in this ebook THE TWO MASKS I. Melpomene among her livid people, Ere stroke of lyre, upon Thaleia looks, Warned by old contests that one museful ripple Along those lips of rose with tendril hooks, Forebodes disturbance in the springs of pathos, Perchance may change of masks midway demand, Albeit the man rise mountainous as Athos, The woman wild as Cape Leucadia stand. II. For this the Comic Muse exacts of creatures Appealing to the fount of tears: that they Strive never to outleap our hu...