Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") ( 10 of 101 )
I hate
To tell again a tale once fully told.
I hate
To tell again a tale once fully told.
Rare gift! but oh, what gift to fools avails!
Rare gift! but oh, what gift to fools avails!
Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.
Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.
If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.
If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.
One who journeying
Along a way he knows not, having crossed
A place of drear extent, before read more
One who journeying
Along a way he knows not, having crossed
A place of drear extent, before him sees
A river rushing swiftly toward the deep,
And all its tossing current white with foam,
And stops and turns, and measures back his way.
The son of Saturn gave
The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls
Upon the Sovereign read more
The son of Saturn gave
The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls
Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head
Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount,
Olympus trembled.
Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall.
Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall.
No living man can send me to the shades
Before my time; no man of woman born,
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No living man can send me to the shades
Before my time; no man of woman born,
Coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
Behold, on wrong
Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.
Behold, on wrong
Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.
Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts.
Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts.
