The Iliad: Book 20 (Homer Poems)
Thus, then, did the Achaeans arm by their ships round you, O sonof Peleus, who were hungering for battle; while ...
Thus, then, did the Achaeans arm by their ships round you, O sonof Peleus, who were hungering for battle; while ...
With these words Hector passed through the gates, and his brotherAlexandrus with him, both eager for the fray. As when ...
O this political air so heavy with the bellsand motors of a slow night, and no place to restbut rain ...
Victory! cry of all cries after battle,Victory! only cry worthy of breath,Lifting the soul up and thrilling the heart strings,Shaking ...
Unhewn in quarry lay the Parian stone, Ere hands, god-guided, of PraxitelesMight shape the Cnidian Venus. Long ungrown The ivory was which, ...
If I am to know how to restrain your hands,If I am to betray the tender, salty lips,I must wait ...
If I am to know how to restrain your hands,If I am to betray the tender, salty lips,I must wait ...
Every church sings its own soft partIn the polyphony of a girl's choir,And in the stone arches of the AssumptionI ...
Every church sings its own soft partIn the polyphony of a girl's choir,And in the stone arches of the AssumptionI ...
A sweet hour. Athens sprawls like a hetairaoffering herself to April.Sensuous scents are in the air,the spirit waits for nothing ...
An American girl of twentyShould reach Egypt,Forgetting the advice from the Titanic,Asleep on the bottom, gloomier than the crypt.In America ...
The Greeks planned for warOn the delightful island of Salamis.From the harbor of Athens, you could see itSeized by the ...
Thou, run to the dry on this wayside bank,Too plainly of all the propellers bereft!Quenched youth, and is that thy ...
I The ragged pilgrim, on the road to nowhere, Waits at the granite milestone. It grows dark. Willows lean by ...
Hear ye my statute, men of Attica-- Ye who of bloodshed judge this primal cause; Yea, and in ...
MORNING gleam and sunset glow,(Far away and long ago)Light that lapt the world in blissRound the white Acropolis;Set the many-twinkling ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
I Many ingenious lovely things are gone That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude, protected from the circle of the ...
By dark severance the apparition head Smiles from the air a capital on no Column or a Platonic perhaps head ...
I have studied the Science of departures, in night's sorrows, when a woman's hair falls down. The oxen chew, there's ...
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