 HERACLITUS THEY told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead ; They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept as I remembered, how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. And now that thou art...  The Pageant of Greece - Page 389edited by - 1924 - 436 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Johnson Cory - 1858 - 128 pages
...wept, as I remembered, how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest,...For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take. I WILL not leave the smouldering pyre: Enough remains to light again: But who am I to dare desire... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1910 - 914 pages
...how often yon and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. And now that yon are lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey...nightingales, awake. For death he taketh all away, but these he cannot take. It is possible to read the thought in the original differently, that immortality... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1914 - 872 pages
...garden and the countless nightingales which soothed his wounded spirits with their delicious song. ' Yet are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake, For Death, he taketh all away, but these he cannot take.' At Christmas Bembo went to Bologna to meet the Pope, and to see the Emperor,... | |
 | Whitnash rectory - 1866 - 478 pages
...wept, as I remembered, how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking, and sent him down the sky. And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest,...For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take. WJ W iïtttttus Scœfcola* Komanus sum civis : С. Mucium vacant. Hostis hostem occidere volui... | |
 | Sertum - 1869 - 114 pages
...how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. And now that thou.art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey...nightingales, awake, For death he taketh all away, but them he canuot take." 4. -AAiirap»Tjirireu] of Halimrnassus, in Caria. 5 рoч»] Dative after ¿vißa\ei.... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1892 - 996 pages
...development, we at once enter guest, a naturally artistic atmosphere. Until after his A handful of gray ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant...For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take. This, to be sure, is a paraphrase, yet it conveys the feeling better than the more compact version... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1873 - 444 pages
...wept, as I remembered, how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest,...For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take." *?TS rif, *Hpa*Xeir« rtiv /iopov, 2j Ss /it laicpv fiyayev, fytvr/<rflijv S" oaadxif il^ipoTfpoi... | |
 | 1891 - 890 pages
...wept as I remembered how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. But now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest,...handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are they pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake, For death he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1909 - 582 pages
...and sent him down the sky. And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of gray ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant...nightingales awake ; For Death, he taketh all away, but these he cannot take. It would be cruel to compare with this an alternative version by an eminent classical... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1891 - 360 pages
...with talking and sent him down the sky. dnd now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, e/f handful of grey ashes, long long ago at rest, Still...thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake ; For TJeath, he taketh all away, but these he cannot take. No translation ever smelt less of the lamp, and... | |
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