The Iliad: Book 12 (Homer Poems)
So the son of Menoetius was attending to the hurt of Eurypyluswithin the tent, but the Argives and Trojans still ...
So the son of Menoetius was attending to the hurt of Eurypyluswithin the tent, but the Argives and Trojans still ...
JanuaryThe first fair month! In singing Summer's sphereShe glows, the eldest daughter of the year.All light, all warmth, all passion, ...
I.Break dull November skies, and makeSunshine over wood and lake,And fill your cells of frosty airWith thousand, thousand welcomes to ...
Rolling through the gloomy gorges, comes the roaring southern blast,With a sound of torrents flying, like a routed army, past,And, ...
In a far-away glen of the hills, Where the bird of the night is at rest,Shut in from the thunder that ...
WE STOOD by the window and hearkenedTo the voice of the runnels sea-driven,While, northward, the mountain-heads darkened,Girt round with the ...
Sing the song of wave-worn Coogee, Coogee in the distance white,With its jags and points disrupted, gaps and fractures fringed ...
ON the third day from this (Saint Brendan said)I will be where no wind that filled a sailHas ever been, ...
Just a shell, to which the seaweed glittering yet with greenness clings,Like the song that once I loved so, softly ...
CHILD of Light, the bright, the bird-like! wilt thou float and float to me,Facing winds and sleets and waters, flying ...
Daphne! Ladon's daughter, Daphne! Set thyself in silver light,Take thy thoughts of fairest texture, weave them into words of white ...
The gloomy hulls in armor grim, Like clouds o'er moors have met,And prove that oak, and iron, and man Are tough in ...
ALL NIGHT long the sea out yonder-all night long the wailful sea,Vext of winds and many thunders, seeketh rest unceasingly!Seeketh ...
MORNING on the misty highlands,On the outer shining islands;Gulls their grey way seaward winging To the blinking zones of blue;South winds ...
Men deemed her changed, and lo! At word of war unveiled,She stands, as long ago, She stood when Nelson sailed.The sea wind ...
IN the greyness of the dawning we have seen the pilot-star,In the whisper of the morning we have heard the ...
We left the murk of Merseyside, we left the flaring town;All smouldering red by Spanish Head the stormy sun went ...
Wind from the eastward whose breath goes seaward surely Over the cold grey rollers that hold me apart,Would I ...
Wake: the silver dusk returning Up the beach of darkness brims, And the ship of sunrise burning Strands ...
Start Point and Beachy HeadTell their tale of quick and dead.Forelands both and DungenessSee many a ship in distress.The Lizard ...
Wake: the silver dusk returning Up the beach of darkness brims, And the ship of sunrise burning Strands upon the ...
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