Homer. Iliad, Book VI, 440-502 (Maria Frances Cecilia Cowper Poems)
Then to her answered and spake great Hector the waving-crested :" I too grieve for all this, dear love, but ...
Then to her answered and spake great Hector the waving-crested :" I too grieve for all this, dear love, but ...
An old man in Concord forgets to go to morning service. He falls asleep, while reading Vergil, and dreams that ...
There in the bracken was the ominous spoor mark,Huge, splayed, deadly, and quiet as breath,And all around lay bloodied and ...
Lovers all are soldiers, and Cupid has his campaigns:I tell you, Atticus, lovers all are soldiers.Youth is fit for war, ...
I'll not attempt the taskOf the Iliad to relate;But I will tell of HectorAnd how he met his fate.The Trojan ...
A tablet stood of that abstersive tree, Where Aethiop's swarthy bird did build her nest;Inlaid it was with Libyan ivory, Drawn from ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
_A lay sung in the Temple of Minerva Girtanensis_. I Aemilia Girtonensis, By the Nine Muses swore That the ...
Then to her answered and spake great Hector the waving-crested : " I too grieve for all this, dear love, ...
When Greeks and Trojans fell at strife,And lords in armour bright were seen,When many a gallant lost his lifeUlysses, general ...
"Heigh me! brazen of front, thou glutton for plunder, how can one,Servant here to thy mandates, ...
So he, with a clear shout of laughter,Forth of his ambush leapt, and he vaunted him, ...
These, then, he left, and away where ranks were now clashing the thickest,Onward rushed, and with ...
Horatio, of ideal courage vain,Was flourishing in air his father's cane,And, as the fumes of valour swelled his pate,Now thought ...
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi. "O C?sar, we who are ...
Our efforts are those of the unfortunate; our efforts are like those of the Trojans. Somewhat we succeed; somewhat we ...
After the wailing had already begun along the walls, their ruin certain, the Trojans fidgeted with bits of wood in ...
(To Mrs. Henry Richards) Isaac and Archibald were two old men. I knew them, and I may have laughed at ...
He said, and pass'd with sad presaging heart To seek his spouse, his soul's far dearer part; At home he ...
'Twas on the famous Empire run, Whose sun does never set, Whose grass and water, so they say, Have never ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
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