id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 27673 Sophocles Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes .txt text/plain 18569 2499 99 The man hath heard thy curses. To Thebes, who feeds thee, thus to veil thy mind. 'Tis that I like not thy mind, nor the way The more shouldst thou declare it to thy King. Thou seek'st this man of blood: Thyself art he. Thou think'st 'twill help thee, thus to speak and speak? In truth, thou blind man, blind eyes, ears and heart. And seeing man would hurt a thing like thee. On thee the death thou plottest for thy King. Nor where thou art, nor what things dwell with thee. Thou seest not, which so soon shall lay thee low, My lord, come in!--Thou, Creon, get thee back Thy tale, that King of Thebes was struck to death.... Thy name on earth--O Zeus, thou Lord of all And thou, fear not thy mother. And the old men shall dance to thy glory, and raise thee I ask thee.--Thou wast Laïus' man of old? ./cache/27673.txt ./txt/27673.txt