The Iliad and Odyssey [and The battle of the frogs and mice] tr. into Engl. blank verse by W. Cowper, Volume 31809 |
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... return'd no more . Daughter divine of Jove , these things record , As it may please thee , even in our ears . The rest , all those who had perdition ' scap'd By war or on the Deep , dwelt now at home ; Him only , of his country and his ...
... return'd no more . Daughter divine of Jove , these things record , As it may please thee , even in our ears . The rest , all those who had perdition ' scap'd By war or on the Deep , dwelt now at home ; Him only , of his country and his ...
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... return'd : From no ignoble race , in future days , The Gods shall prove thee sprung , whom so endow'd With ev'ry grace Penelope hath borne . But tell me true . What festival is this ? This throng - whence are they ? wherefore hast thou ...
... return'd : From no ignoble race , in future days , The Gods shall prove thee sprung , whom so endow'd With ev'ry grace Penelope hath borne . But tell me true . What festival is this ? This throng - whence are they ? wherefore hast thou ...
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... return'd ( For thither also had Ulysses gone In his swift bark , seeking some pois'nous drug , Wherewith to taint his brazen arrows keent , Which drug through fear of the eternal Gods Ilus refus'd , but readily my sire Gave to him , for ...
... return'd ( For thither also had Ulysses gone In his swift bark , seeking some pois'nous drug , Wherewith to taint his brazen arrows keent , Which drug through fear of the eternal Gods Ilus refus'd , but readily my sire Gave to him , for ...
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... return'd : My mother ! leave the tuneful bard unblam'd To his own choice . No bard , himself , creates The woes of which he sings , but Jove supplies Each , at his pleasure , with a mournful theme ; And he records Achaia's hapless doom ...
... return'd : My mother ! leave the tuneful bard unblam'd To his own choice . No bard , himself , creates The woes of which he sings , but Jove supplies Each , at his pleasure , with a mournful theme ; And he records Achaia's hapless doom ...
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... return'd , And how Ægisthus cruelly contriv'd For him a bloody welcome , but himself Hath with his own life paid the murd❜rous deed . Good therefore is it , when , the father slain , A son survives him ; since , although a youth ...
... return'd , And how Ægisthus cruelly contriv'd For him a bloody welcome , but himself Hath with his own life paid the murd❜rous deed . Good therefore is it , when , the father slain , A son survives him ; since , although a youth ...
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abode Achaia's Ægisthus Alcinous ancient Antilochus Antinoüs approach'd arriv'd Atrides bade banquet bard bark behold beneath beside call'd Calypso ceas'd charg'd chief Circe Clytemnestra crew Cyclops daughter death Deep Demodocus divine dread Eurylochus Eurymachus Eustathius ev'ry eyes falchion father feast fill'd flocks flood friends galley Goddess godlike Gods Greecians guest hands hast hath heart Heav'n herald hero Homer Icarius Ilium illustrious immortal isle Ithaca Jove king Laertes land Laodamas length lest libation Lotophagi Mean-time Menelaus Minerva native shores Nausicaa Neleus Neptune Nestor night noble num'rous nymph o'er oars once palace Pallas pass'd Penelope perish'd Phæacia's sons Phæacians Pisistratus plac'd poet pow'r pray'r prepar'd Pylus reach'd receiv'd renown'd replied return'd rock sable saying seiz'd ship side sire slain sleep slew sorrow Sov'reign spake stood stranger suitors Telemachus thee thence thine thou shalt thyself Tiresias toils Troy Ulysses urg'd waves wine woes youth