greykit.poetry · #quest

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1899 [w-b-yeats] The Song of Wandering Aengus
The Wind Among the Reeds

A silver trout caught in a hazel wood turns into a glimmering girl and vanishes; the rest is an old man's whole life spent walking after her, to pluck the silver apples of the moon and the golden apples of the sun.

#ballad #myth #quest #1890s
1849 [edgar-allan-poe] Eldorado
Poems (1849)

A gallant knight grows old riding after Eldorado, and is finally told by a pilgrim shadow where to look: over the Mountains of the Moon, down the Valley of the Shadow.

#ballad #quest #death #1840s

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