OH how I wish that an embargo
Had kept in port the good ship Argo!
Who, still unlaunched from Grecian docks,
Had never passed the Azure rocks;
But now I fear her trip will be a
Damn'd business for my Miss Medea, etc., etc.
Classic poem
Translation of the Nurse's Dole in the _Medea_ of Euripides
Public domain/Source
About this poem
- First line
- OH how I wish that an embargo
- Themes
- solitude, sea
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