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, ...
Thus, then, did the Achaeans arm by their ships round you, O sonof Peleus, who were hungering for battle; while ...
Ef I a song or two could make Like rockets druv by their own burnin',All leap an' light, to leave a ...
Farewell, for now my gallant bark, Loosed from her mooring, quits the shoreAmid a fog and mist as dark As that which ...
Deem not this wielder of this penThe happiest bloke alive,For I am only five-foot-ten,And ye are ten-foot-five.Wherefore I clothe myself ...
Once more among our archangelic hillsThe streets of this old, grave, and gracious townThrob with renewing vigor as when SpringRushes ...
BEOWULF spake, bairn of Ecgtheow: —"Lo, now, this sea-booty, son of Healfdene,Lord of Scyldings, we've lustily brought thee,sign of glory; ...
THAT way he went with no will of his own,in danger of life, to the dragon's hoard,but for pressure of ...
HROTHGAR spake, — to the hall he went,stood by the steps, the steep roof saw,garnished with gold, and Grendel's hand: ...
PRELUDE OF THE FOUNDER OF THE DANISH HOUSELO, praise of the prowess of people-kingsof spear-armed Danes, in days long sped,we ...
Written at the Request of the Mantuans for the Nineteenth Centenary of Virgil's DeathRoman Virgil, thou that singestIlion's lofty temples ...
Thou, O Love, the traitor art ! Tender once as any may, Then the wielder of the dart That is ...
NOT ALL disgraced, in that Italian town, The imperial German cowered beneath thine hand, Alone indeed imperial Hildebrand,And ...
To the Memory of the Household It Describes This Poem is Dedicated by the Author "As the Spirit of Darkness ...
Written at the Request of the Mantuans for the Nineteenth Centenary of Virgil's Death Roman Virgil, thou that singest Ilion's ...
Roman Virgil, thou that singest Ilion's lofty temples robed in fire, Ilion falling, Rome arising, wars, and filial faith, and ...
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