![]() ![]() Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher. Not in a cave, not in a half-snug thicket,Įxcerpted from Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Rivers of milk mingled with rivers of nectar.Īnd out of the black oak oozed amber honey. Whitened beneath the bowed wealth of the corn. They would glimpse from the lift of the ocean swell.Īnd the earth, unbroken by plough or by hoe,īlackberry or strawberry, mushroom or truffle,Įvery kind of nut, figs, apples, cherries, It shows all that was best about him as a poet: master of language, image and story. ![]() Listening deeply, man kept faith with the source. Tales from Ovid was Ted Hughes penultimate book and one of his best. ![]() Hang their heads from horizontal backbones ![]() Hardly had he, the wise one, ordered all thisĬlogged before in the dark huddle of Chaos These madhouse brothers, fighting each other,Īrabia, Persia, all that the morning star The outermost two zones beneath deep snow,Įven now, as they are, within their wards, He conjured springs to rise and be manifest, Then he commanded the water to spread out flat, That would resound, one day, in the dome of the tortoise. Hot fought cold, moist dry, soft hard, and the weightless Now I am ready to tell how bodies are changedĮverything fluid or vapour, form formless. To be published in March, 1999 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC. Books online: Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses. Excerpt from Tales From Ovid by Ted Hughes. Fishpond Fiji, Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses by Ted Hughes OvidBuy. ![]()
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