The OdysseyJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1875 |
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A. C. vol Achilles adventures Ægisthus Agamemnon Alcinous ancient Antilochus Antinous banquet bard beauty bids Calypso character charmed chief Circe companions comrades crew Cyclops dark dead disguised divine doth English Eumæus Eurycleia Eurylochus Eurymachus eyes fair fate father feast goddess gods Greek guest hall hand hath hear heart heaven Helen hero Herodotus Homer honour host Iliad immortal island Ithaca king Laertes land lips maidens Menelaus Mentes Mentor Minerva modern mortal mother Nausicaa Neoptolemus Nestor night noble o'er Odyssey once palace Penelope Penelope's Phæacian Pisistratus poem poet poet's Polyphemus Priam princess Pylos queen reader recognise remind romance round royal sail says scene ship shore sits song Sparta spear spirit story stranger strong suitors sweet tale tears Telemachus tell thee thou Tiresias toils travellers Troy true Ulysses vengeance vessel voyage wanderings wife wine words young
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Página 123 - Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads - you and I are old; Old age hath yet his...
Página 124 - Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
Página 66 - ; And all at once they sang, " Our island home Is far beyond the wave ; we will no longer roam.
Página 124 - Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and, sitting well in order, smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho...
Página 54 - For, like the sun's fire or the moon's, a light Far streaming through the high-roofed house did pass From the long basement to the topmost height. There on each side ran walls of flaming brass, Zoned on the summit with a blue bright mass Of cornice ; and the doors were framed of gold ; Where, underneath, the brazen floor doth glass Silver pilasters, which with grace uphold Lintel of silver framed ; the ring was burnished gold. And dogs on each side of the doors there stand, Silver and gold, the which...
Página 75 - The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it ; But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flower, but not in this soil : Unknown, and like esteemed, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon ; And yet more med'cinal is it than that moly That Hermes once to wise Ulysses gave...
Página 112 - STRIPT of his rags then leapt the godlike king On the great threshold, in his hand the bow And quiver, filled with arrows of mortal sting. These with a rattle he rained down below, Loose at his feet, and spake among them so : " See, at the last our matchless bout is o'er ! Now for another mark, that I may know If I can hit what none hath hit before, And if Apollo hear me in the prayers I pour ! " 2 Thus did he speak, and aimed a bitter dart Against Antiuous.
Página 53 - Onely she turnd a pin, and by and by It cut away upon the yielding wave, Ne cared she her course for to apply ; For it was taught the way which she would have, And both from rocks and...
Página 40 - But now farewell. I am going a long way With these thou seest — if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt) — To the island valley of Avilion ; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly ; but it lies Deep-meadowed, happy, fair with orchard lawns, And bowery hollows crowned with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.