Category: Poetry
FIRST in my song shalt thou be, O Phœbus, the song that I sing Of the heroes of old, who sped, at the hest of Pelias the king, When down through the gorge of the Pontus-sea, through the Crags Dark-blue, On the Quest of the Fleece of Gold the strong-ribbed Argo flew. For an ora...
NOW take thou up the story, O Goddess of Song, and sing The afflictions and thoughts of the Kolchian maid; for as touching this thing In a tempest of wilderment whirled is my so...
6. Part 6COME, Erato, now, stand by me: of thy lips let me be taught In what manner thereafter Jason the Fleece to Iolkos brought Through the love of Medea: for thou in the things by the...
2. Part 2FIRST in my song shalt thou be, O Phœbus, the song that I sing Of the heroes of old, who sped, at the hest of Pelias the king, When down through the gorge of the Pontus-sea, thr...
4. Part 4THERE were there steadings of cattle, and Amykus' farms were there, Proud king of Bebrykian men, whom erst a wood-nymph bare; For Bithynian Meliê couched with Poseidon the Lord...
9. Part 9_This rendering of the_ 'Argonautica,' _now first published, has been translated from the original Greek by_ Arthur S. Way, M.A., _the gifted translator of_ 'Homer's Iliad _and_...
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