Maecenas' page

A 5th century portrait of Virgil with a capsa (a travelling box for papyri).

Who better than Maecenas, powerful patron of the young artistic stars of his day, including
Virgil, Horace and Propertius, to oversee this: the poetry bit...

Peruse the scrolls:

Louis Macneice
Prayer Before Birth
Corner Seat
Entirely
Snow
Bagpipe Music

Christina Rossetti
Winter: My Secret
Promise Me No Promises
Who Will Deliver Me?
The Lowest Place

Keats
from Lamia
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Ode On A Graecian Urn

C.P. Cavafy
The City

John Donne
Death

George Herbert
Love (iii)

W.B. Yeats
Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad?

Robert Burns
To A Mouse

Sappho
He Seems To Me

Dies Irae

S Baldrick
The German Guns

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