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id: 14484
title: The Seven Plays in English Verse
author: Sophocles
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  how surely didst thou aim thy word! Thou bear''st with thee, and in thy palace hall The limbs of those thy captives, come thou forth! But thou, I charge thee, let thine aid Hath found thee, make thy father''s enemies Thou, for ''tis meet, great Father, lend thine aid. And thee, thou travelling Sun-god, I may speak Come, child, take thou thy station close beside: Thou, in thy coming to this Theban land, I tell thee thou art living unawares Know''st not from whence thou art--nay, to thy kin, When it hath caught thee, thou wilt praise my words. My father, thou shalt yield thy life to me. ''Tis sorrow not to know thee who thou art. I tell thee thou this day hast been the death thou wilt tell me that thy pain is come. Shall soothe thee from thy sore, and thou with me


id: 400
title: Helen of Troy, and Other Poems
author: Teasdale, Sara
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  Till light turn darkness, and till time shall sleep, And cried to Love, from whom the sea is sweet, There is a quiet at the heart of love, Shall I go forth to hide awhile from Love The long night ends, the day comes creeping in, Lifts up her flower-like head against the night. Love came to me as comes a cruel sun, Make songs for Death as you would sing to Love-"The night thou badst Love fly away, Love entered in my heart one day, And long for a love like this. Take my love this little song, All day I''d sing my love for him Love comes to-night to all the rest, And I have loved the cold sweet sea. If Love came by like any lad, When Love comes singing to his heart Then little hiding Love, come forth, Nor know that in my heart Love''s birth


id: 2395
title: The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
author: Colum, Padraic
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  So Pelias said, and Jason went with the guards and the crowd of people, youths of Iolcus went with the heroes who had come from the different "Heroes of the quest," said Jason, "we have come aboard the great ship They came into King Phineus''s hall, their bright swords in their hands. A day came when Heracles left the Argo and went on the Lemnian land. great soft hand of the Titan, and he said, "O Epimetheus, Father Zeus Medea turned away from her father''s eyes, and went to her chamber. Jason, carrying his shield and spear, went before the king. As the Argonauts came near they saw what looked to them like Then the king mounted his chariot; Medea went with him, and they came As he looked from the tower he saw the king come forth with arms in his Then it so happened that Heracles came into the palace of the king.


id: 1973
title: Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the Sacker of Cities
author: Lang, Andrew
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  men stood to fight with sword and spear when there was a battle at sea. taken away from Achilles, and Ulysses put Chryseis on board of his ship Achilles, fight they must; and all men, heavy at heart, went to sleep in ships, and away from Troy." So Ulysses and Diomede lay down among the Trojans and the ships, and down on them came Hector and Aeneas and Paris, Patroclus told Achilles how Ulysses and many other princes were wounded armour and put on that of Achilles, and Greeks and Trojans fought for the like all the Greek and Trojan chiefs, but rode horses, which must have Ulysses led the Greeks, for we are not told that Agamemnon was fighting Then the Trojans all with one voice said that Ulysses was the best man Next Ulysses stood up and said that, though Achilles was dead,


id: 11582
title: Old Greek Stories
author: Baldwin, James
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  the west; and after many days you shall come to the great river Nile. "The day is coming," said Prometheus, "when Jupiter will send a flood to man, and did not look like the great king of earth and sky that he was. "No one shall have my daughter," said the old king, "until he proves "I tell you," said old King OEneus, looking over his fields and his "Be it so," said the king, "and the name of our city shall be Athens." "Ah!" said the king, "here comes another young fool whose days are "Some day," said Theseus, "I will be your king, but not now; for there "I will come in," said Theseus, "but I will be the guest of the king. "Great king," he said, "I am a stranger in Athens, and I have come to "And who are you, young man?" said the king.


id: 12641
title: The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm
author: Ruskin, John
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  all that man need know,--that the Air is given to him for his life; and Greek forms first the idea of two entirely personal and corporal gods, the earth, the waters, the fire, and the air; and the living powers of patience; and of these, the chief powers of Athena, the Greeks have and, in general grasp of subject, far more powerful, recent work of the Greek dream of the power over human life, and its purest thoughts, in the relation of the power of Athena to organic life, so far as to note more abstract form; while the good and unworldly men, the true Greek the physical power of Athena in cloud and sky, because we know ourselves power of Athena in giving life, because we do not ourselves know clearly myths; but the bird power is soon made entirely human by the Greeks in beauty; but Athena rules over moral passion, and practically useful art.


id: 9313
title: Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew
author: Peabody, Josephine Preston
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  Zeus was left King of gods and men. like a race of poor gods gifted with dreams of great glory and the died like any wearied man, and Zeus set him as a shining archer among ship that came or went was well guarded by order of the king. The day came, and the fair wind that was to set them free. Now it came to pass that Admetus fell in love with a beautiful maiden, for long years after she lived happily with her husband, King Admetus. Like the Sun-god, whom men dreaded as the divine archer and loved as looked on, and the old men of Troy, with the women, came out to watch The ten years of war went by, and the chief, Agamemnon, came home in Thence they came one day to a beautiful strange island, a verdant place Odysseus came home some day and turned the suitors out of doors.


id: 10717
title: The Extant Odes of Pindar Translated with Introduction and Short Notes by Ernest Myers
author: Pindar
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  Pherenikos[2] at Pisa hath swayed thy soul unto glad thoughts, when by Father Zeus exceedingly, and her son, the ivy-bearing god. for a hundred years no city hath brought forth a man of mind more folk, hath honoured six twin altars in great feasts of the gods with [Footnote 10: The course in the chariot-race was twelve times round your gift come unto men all pleasant things and sweet, and the wisdom Now unto various kings pay various men sweet song, their valour''s quickly came three sons of Zeus, men unwearied in battle, whose hath brought this majestic honour to thy soul, and again thou art now [Footnote 4: Probably a horse with which Hippokleas'' father won a race And that man also hath won longed-for glory in the strife of games, Our first, O Zeus, was unto thee, when at Nemea we[1] won thy


id: 8418
title: Hippolytus; The Bacchae
author: Euripides
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  But know, thou art thy little ones'' betrayer! If thou die now, shall child of thine be heir Theseus, the King, hath wronged thee in man''s wise? How wilt thou bear thee through this livelong day, On thee, thou child of the Isle of fearful Love! Canst thou but set thine ill days on one hand Thy life from anguish; wilt but thou be brave! Ere thou didst up and gird thee to thy crime. I called thee Father; thou hast heard my prayer! Thou vile King!--must be turned against thy son? Who now shall hunt with thee or hold thy quiver? Yea, three; thy father and his Queen and thou. Thou Cyprian, long shall I remember thee! Thou Mystery, we hail thee by thy name! And comest thou first to Thebes, to have thy God Thou tearest thy prize, God! The word of Zeus--thee and thy Queen shall take


id: 32326
title: Tales of Troy and Greece
author: Lang, Andrew
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  palace of his father, King Laertes, but Ulysses, with his own hands, men stood to fight with sword and spear when there was a battle at sea. ''Come, then, let us be going,'' said Ulysses, ''for the night is late, and Now Ulysses saw Dolon as he came, and said to Diomede, ''Let us suffer Then the Trojans all with one voice said that Ulysses was the best man ship of Ulysses, like men wrecked on a desert island, who keep watch ''Tell me pray,'' said Ulysses, ''what land is this, and what men At last Ulysses told Telemachus how he had come home in a ship of the She prayed, and said, ''Father Zeus, King of Gods and men, loudly hast ''Look to my horses and man,'' said Theseus; ''I come to see your master.'' ''His ship we could burn, and his men we could slay,'' said Theseus; and


id: 32242
title: A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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  "Thank you, my little Cowslip," said Eustace; "certainly you shall great, naughty Primrose, little Dandelion, or any other, I shall bite shall tell you a sweet pretty story of a Gorgon''s head." half an eye, my wise little auditors), these good old dames had fallen "My dear, good, admirable old ladies," said Perseus, addressing the the old, old times, when King Midas was alive, a great many things "The Golden Touch," asked the stranger, "or your own little Marygold, "You are wiser than you were, King Midas!" said the stranger, looking well know, in your naughty little heart, that I have burnished the old "Cousin Eustace," said Sweet Fern, a good little boy, who was always "Ah," said the sweet little voice again, "you had much better let me "A little more milk, kind Mother Baucis, if you please," said "You are a fine little man!" said Bellerophon, drawing the child


id: 40476
title: Children of the Dawn : Old Tales of Greece
author: Buckley, E. F. (Elsie Finnimore)
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  "The gods, my child, sent thee to thy father and to me in answer to "Stranger," they said, "who art thou to throw away thy life thus "Psyche," she said, "I have heard thy prayer, and I know that thou art "Thou hast a brave heart, Psyche," said the goddess, as she looked at The first day I saw thee thy beauty set my heart aflame, and since life, sobeit thy lord come not to bear thee away in a chariot drawn by "My son, whilst thou hast been away in strange lands the hand of Time "Dost thou love this maiden with all thy heart and soul, Admetus?" he "My daughter," she said, "come to my arms and lay thy head upon my "May the gods forgive thee for what thou hast said!" cried Admetus, "Orpheus," he said, "thou hast touched my heart with thy singing.


id: 35377
title: A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales, for Girls and Boys
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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  The young man came to the palace, and found the king sitting upon his "My dear, good, admirable old ladies," said Perseus, addressing the Gray the old, old times, when King Midas was alive, a great many things came "You are wiser than you were, King Midas!" said the stranger, looking "Cousin Eustace," said Sweet Fern, a good little boy, who was always "Ah," said the sweet little voice again, "you had much better let me "Hear him, Periwinkle, trying to talk like a grown man!" said Primrose. "You are a fine little man!" said Bellerophon, drawing the child closer lived, a very long time ago, a little boy named Theseus. There was the poor old king, too, leaning on his son''s arm, and looking His little friends, like all other small people, had a great opinion of "Long live King Cadmus," they cried, "in his beautiful palace."


id: 38011
title: The Epic of Hades, in Three Books
author: Morris, Lewis
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  He was the old man''s son, a fair white soul-If Love be not their sire; or live long years From the fair harmonies of life and love, Of the great love of God, than those of old And in their lovely eyes, I saw a fair I the young girl whose soft life scarcely knew Of the fair days of old, when man was young When I lay longing for my love, and knew Came ''twixt my love and me, but that fair face? The sound which brought back earth and life and love, To some high goal of thought and life and love, Thine eyes grown awful, life that looked on death, And in their loving eyes I saw the Pain To the fair god of Love, and let them be. Some fair impossible Love, which slays our life, Which love and life have worked; and dwelt long time


id: 41935
title: The Adventures of Ulysses the Wanderer
author: Thorne, Guy
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  green islands set like emeralds in wine-coloured seas, the immortal Ulysses spent a year in the arms of Circe, and she gave birth to a son "Comrades," said Ulysses, "we are brought here by no chance of wind Three times during the long night did Ulysses draw his sword to So the giant took the bowl from the king, and as Ulysses went near Then from the stern of the boat Ulysses cried out in a great voice of "The great Athene has sent me to you, king," said the god, "for she Ulysses drew his great sword, and held it over her with menacing eyes. "Men call thee Ulysses!" said the goddess, and at that word something lee of the island Ulysses could hear no voices but those of the wind HOW ULYSSES LOST HIS MERRY MEN AND CAME A WAIF TO CALYPSO WITH THE "Now will we go to the palace," said Ulysses.


