 ... 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...  Journal of Social Science - Page 861903Full view - About this book
 | Heraclitus (of Ephesus.) - 1987 - 230 pages
...and sent him down the sky. And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant...nightingales, awake; For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take. (Trans. Cory) The fourth, a native of Lesbos, wrote a history of Macedonia; and... | |
 | May Sarton - 2002 - 472 pages
...Here, instead is an old favorite which you probably already know by heart: They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, They brought me bitter...nightingales, awake; For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take. (Callimachus.Tr. by William Cory) The awful typing is due to the fact that we... | |
 | Jeni Williams - 1997 - 303 pages
...and sent him down the sky. And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant...nightingales, awake, For death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take. ( Greek Literature: An Anthology, chosen by Michael Grant, 1976, Epigram 2, trans.... | |
 | G. W. Trompf - 1997 - 238 pages
...and sent him down the sky. And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant...nightingales, awake, For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take. As a small child one of my secret pleasures was to wander, alone, through my father's... | |
 | William C. Lubenow - 1998 - 478 pages
...and sent him down the sky. And now that thou art King, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant...nightingales awake; For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take. William Johnson"96 The story of friendship cuts through the history of the Apostles.... | |
 | William Gerber - 1998 - 148 pages
...and sent him down the sky. And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest. Still are thy pleasant...nightingales awake; For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take. Translated by William J. Cory In the next translation, the reference is not to... | |
 | Hubert Horton McAlexander - 2004 - 364 pages
...and sent him down the sky. And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian Guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant...nightingales, awake; For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take. Peter had first planned to fly up and back the same day. But he wanted to spend... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 pages
...and sent him down the sky. And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant...nightingales, awake; For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take. WILLIAM CORY ENGLISH (1823-1892) Monody To have known him, to have loved him After... | |
 | James T. Como - 2005 - 516 pages
...and sent him down the sky. And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant...Nightingales, awake; For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take. POSTWAR YEARS A change in the pattern of life followed Lewis's appointment as... | |
 | Joseph Epstein - 2007 - 293 pages
...and sent him down the sky. And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant...nightingales, awake; For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take. The dead, if they made a strong impress upon us when they were alive, never leave... | |
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