The Iliad: Book 1 (Homer Poems)
Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that broughtcountless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul ...
Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that broughtcountless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul ...
Nestor was sitting over his wine, but the cry of battle did notescape him, and he said to the son ...
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 ...
When the companies were thus arrayed, each under its own captain,the Trojans advanced as a flight of wild fowl or ...
Now when Dawn in robe of saffron was hasting from the streams ofOceanus, to bring light to mortals and immortals, ...
Just at the self-same beat of Time's wide wingsHyperion slid into the rustled air,And Saturn gain'd with Thea that sad ...
One after one the stars have risen and set,Sparkling upon the hoarfrost on my chain:The Bear, that prowled all night ...
Ill fares it with the man whose lips are setTo bitter themes and words that spite the gods;For, seeing how ...
SONG1-Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph that liv'st unseen-Within thy airy shell-By slow Meander's margent green,-And in the violet-imbroider'd vale-Where the love-lorn ...
O Hades! O false gods! false to yourselves! O Hades, 'twas thy brother gave her thee Without a mother's sanction or her ...
I've been charmed by many a picture, That has brought its master renown; I have looked on beautiful valleys From the mountain's lofty ...
Not Aladdin magianEver such a work began;Not the wizard of the DeeEver such a dream could see;Not St. John, in ...
When Aurora springs from her couch of clouds And opens the gate of a perfect day, And her brother Sol in his ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
O'RE the smooth enameld green Where no print of step hath been, Follow me as I sing, And touch the ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
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