The Lady Muses, nine thou be <br />Comely, wise, I see such beauty, thine <br />Daughters of Mnemosyne`s Shrine <br />Titaness of Memory, Daughters of Gaea <br /> <br />I, aspiring lyrist, thence <br />See erudite doxies, to accost <br />Inquire I, without them lost <br />They requite my homage with their prescience <br /> <br />Calliope, poetess of eloquence and epic <br />Clio, Muse of history <br />Erato, composer of lyric poetry <br />Euterpe, dearest Muse of lyre and music <br /> <br />Melpomene, writes of tragedy <br />Polyhymnia, sings Her songs so sacred <br />Terpsichore, of song and dance, well led <br />Thalia, playwright of the comedy, Urania of Astronomy <br /> <br />Oblations of Flowers, I besprent <br />To dear Muses, at Pieria born <br />In revery, Moonlight fades in morn <br />Yet ne`er The Wisdom, they hath sent<br /><br />Steve Trimmer<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-nine-muses-so-rapturous/
