The Iliad: Book 22 (Homer Poems)
Thus the Trojans in the city, scared like fawns, wiped the sweatfrom off them and drank to quench their thirst, ...
Thus the Trojans in the city, scared like fawns, wiped the sweatfrom off them and drank to quench their thirst, ...
One after one the stars have risen and set,Sparkling upon the hoarfrost on my chain:The Bear, that prowled all night ...
'Twas such a manner of disease, 'twas suchMortal miasma in Cecropian landsWhilom reduced the plains to dead men's bones,Unpeopled the ...
IS he well blessed who has no eyes to scanThe woeful things that shadow all our life:The latent brute behind ...
MONOTONOUS and regularAnd mournful the allotments lie,And night,As if to hide their misery from sight,Falls, fold on fold, from the ...
Seagirt, by woods encompassed, eyried within gatesThat no man opens nay, the unuttered Who goes there?Makes the benighted traveller tremble, ...
Masks! Oh Masks!Black mask, red mask, you black and white masks,Rectangular masks through whom the spirit breathes,I greet you in ...
Two friends were sitting at a table drinking tea.A sudden hubbub arose in the street. They heard pitiable groans, furiousabuse, ...
Not all the singers of a thousand yearsCan open English prisons. No. Though hellOpened for Tracian Orpheus, now the spellOf ...
High-mindedness, a jealousy for good,A loving-kindness for the great man's fame,Dwells here and there with people of no name,In noisome ...
High-mindedness, a jealousy for good,A loving-kindness for the great man's fame,Dwells here and there with people of no name,In noisome ...
What is left of that night watchSince I lost everything!The full moon remainsWith the shudders of solitudeAnd the plainsThat long ...
DwellingsYES! we've our Borough-vices, and I knowHow far they spread, how rapidly they grow;Yet think not virtue quits the busy ...
IWe look for her that sunlike stoodUpon the forehead of our day,An orb of nations, radiating foodFor body and for ...
Who murmurs, hither, hither: whoWhere nought is audible so fills the ear?Where nought is visible can make appearA veil with ...
Beneath a lamp in Spring-street, on a recent calm spring night,I came unwittingly upon a most pathetic sight;A sorry spectacle ...
High-mindedness, a jealousy for good, A loving-kindness for the great man's fame, Dwells here and there with people of no ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
I When I considered it too closely, when I wore it like an element and smelt it like water, Life ...
The Argument. Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, ...
MY Spectre around me night and day Like a wild beast guards my way; My Emanation far within Weeps incessantly ...
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