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 ...
VAIN are those joys that erring man provides, Vain the pursuit of sublunary things!Wisdom the sandy edifice derides, Scoffs at the fading ...
I HAVE seen thee again, my beloved,Thou art come in the pride of thy youth,With thy beauty a garment about ...
FAREWELL thou restless world, whose unsound joy,False hopes, and vain pursuits, man's life destroy;Poison in golden cups thou gav'st to ...
While the whole world is filled with noise of battle,And cries from many a devastated land,While day by day our ...
Nature her gifts is bringingTo deck the fields anew,And all the birds are singing,And all the skies are blue,And all ...
SAY, would the teeming earth its treasures yield,Or grateful plenty crown the smiling field,If bright'ning suns unceasing warm'd the plain,And ...
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