Balaustion's Adventure: Including a Transcript from EuripidesJames R. Osgood and Company, 1871 - 146 pages |
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Aischulos Alkestis Apollon Athens aught bade Balaustion bear beneath Bistones Charon corpse couch Crete crowned dead dear death didst Diomedes dost thou Euripides eyes face Farewell fate father flesh gain glad glory gods grace Greece grief guest Hades hail hand hate head hear heart Herakles hide honor husband Kameiros Kaunians Kaunos King Admetos labor Larissa laugh light live look lord lyre moan Moirai mortals mourn neath needs never Nowise once palace Pelias peplos Pheres Phoibos play praise pray prize sake Salamis Self-immolating Sicily sire smile song Sophokles sorrow soul Sparta speak spoke steeds stood Syracuse tears thee Thessalian Thessaly thine things thou art thou hast thou may'st thou wilt Thrace Thracian thy friend thy wife thyself touch true truth Whereat wilt thou woman word Zeus
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Page 121 - To be demonstrably thy friend : but thou Told'st me not of the corpse then claiming care, That was thy wife's, but didst instal me guest I the house here, as though busied with a grief Indeed, but then, mere grief beyond thy gate : And so, I crowned my head, and to the Gods Poured my libations in thy dwelling-place, With such misfortune round me. And I blame — Certainly blame thee, having suffered thus ! But still I would not pain thee, pained enough...
Page 109 - And so went striding off, on that straight way Leads to Larissa and the suburb tomb. Gladness be with thee, Helper of our world ! I think this is the authentic sign and seal Of godship, that it ever waxes glad...
Page 120 - The yellow hair o' the hero ! — his big frame A-quiver with each muscle sinking back Into the sleepy smooth it leaped from late. Under the great guard of one arm, there leant A shrouded something, live and woman-like, Propped by the heart-beats 'neath the lion-coat.
Page 108 - I' the house again Alkestis, bring about Comfort and succor to Admetos so! I will go lie in wait for Death, black-stoled King of the corpses! I shall find him, sure, Drinking, beside the tomb, o' the sacrifice: And if I lie in ambuscade, and leap Out of my lair, and seize — encircle him Till one hand join the other round about — There lives not who shall pull him out from me...
Page 137 - Admetos, new Alkestis. Ah, that brave Bounty of poets, the one royal race That ever was, or will be, in this world ! They give no gift that bounds itself and ends I' the giving and the taking: theirs so breeds I
Page 24 - Tis the poet speaks : But if I, too, should try and speak at times, Leading your love to where my love, perchance, Climbed earlier, found a nest before you knew — Why, bear with the poor climber, for love's sake...
Page 23 - As she had seen each naked fleshly face, And not the merely-painted mask it wore I " Well, is the explanation difficult ? What's poetry except a power that makes ? And, speaking to one sense, inspires the rest, Pressing them all into its service ; so That who sees painting, seems to hear as well The speech that's proper for the painted mouth ; And who hears music, feels his solitude Peopled at once — for how count...
Page 129 - She shall go, if needs must: but ere she go, See if there is need!" "Need there is! At least, Except I make thee angry with me, so!" -' "But I persist, because I have my spice Of intuition likewise: take the dame!" 2300 "Be thou the victor, then! But certainly Thou dost thy friend no pleasure in the act!" "Oh, time will come when thou shalt praise me! Now — Only obey!
Page 6 - Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, And his touches of things common, Till they rose to touch the spheres.
Page 19 - We landed ; the whole city, soon astir, Came rushing out of gates in common joy To the suburb temple ; there they stationed me O' the topmost step : and plain I told the play, Just as I saw it ; what the actors said, And what I saw, or thought I saw the while, At our Kameiros theatre, clean-scooped Out of a hill-side, with the sky above ,, And sea before our seats in marble row : Told it, and, two days more, repeated it, Until they sent us on our way again With good words and great wishes.