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A. C. vol Achilles adventures Ægisthus Agamemnon Alcinous ancient Antinous banquet beauty bids Calypso character charmed chief Circe companions comrades crew Crown 8vo Cyclops dark dead disguised divine doth English Eumæus Eurycleia Eurylochus Eurymachus eyes fair fate father fcap feast goddess gods Greek guest hall hand hath hear heart Helen hero Homer honour host Iliad immortal island Ithaca king Laertes land lips lord maidens Menelaus Minerva modern mortal mother Nausicaa Neoptolemus Nestor night noble o'er Odyssey once palace Penelope Penelope's Phæacian PHILIP STANHOPE WORSLEY Pisistratus poem poet poet's Polyphemus Pylos queen reader recognise remind romance round royal sail says scene ship shore song Sparta spear Spenserian stanza spirit story stranger strong suitors sweet tale tears Telemachus tells thee thou thought Tiresias toils translation travellers Troy Ulysses vengeance voyage wanderings wife wine Worsley Worsley's young
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Page 123 - There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toiled, 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...
Page 66 - ; And all at once they sang, " Our island home Is far beyond the wave ; we will no longer roam.
Page 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 medicinal is it than that Moly That Hermes once to wise Ulysses gave.
Page 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...
Page 124 - Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows...
Page 82 - Rather would I, in the sun's warmth divine, Serve some poor churl who drags his days in grief, Than the whole lordship of the dead were mine.
Page 40 - 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.
Page 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.