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| 7. "So till the sun bestrode the sky at high noon the weapons hurtled side-to-side and men kept falling." The Iliad, Homer, Book Sixteenth, "Patroclus Fights and Dies", Translated by Robert Fagles, Lines 903-904, New York: Penguin, 1990. "Already they were approaching those farthest acres, Those final fields where only the great war-heroes Had their preserves. Here Tydeus ran to meet him," The Aeneid, Vergil, Book VI, Translated by Patric Dickinson, Page 133, New York: Mentor, 1961. "Death ready stands to interpose his dart, Fearless to be o'ermatcht by living might." Paradise Lost, Book II, Milton, Lines 854-855. "But O! More horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye! Seven days, seven nights I saw that curse, And yet I could not die." The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part The Fourth, Coleridge, Lines 251-254. "These were his words. And when a god had urged the singer, he began. To start his chant" The Odyssey, Homer, Book VIII, Translated by Allen Mandelbaum, Page 163, New York: Bantam Books, 1990. "And never yet, since high in Paradise O'er the four rivers the first roses blew, Came purer pleasure unto mortal kind" Idylls of the King, "Geraint and Enid", Tennyson, Lines 762-764. "Likewise that the forms of all things are derived from their Genius, which by the Ancients was call'd an Angel & Spirit & Demon." All Religions Are One, Principle 1st, Blake. Back to Poems Back to Index E-mail the Poet |
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