The Odysseys of Homer - 1 Author:Richard Hooper Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1874 Original Publisher: Smith Subjects: Epic poetry, Greek Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to ... more »Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: And that must come from heav'n ; if ev'ry hour There be not personal appearance made, 75 And aid direct giv'n, that may sense invade. I'll tell thee, therefore, clearly : If there were Of divers-languag'd men an army here Of fifty companies, all driving hence Thy sheep and oxen, and with violence so Offer'd to charge us, and hesiege us round, Thou shouldst their prey reprise, and them confound. Let sleep then seize thee. To keep watch all night Consumes the spirits, and makes dull the sight." Thus pour'd the Goddess sleep into his eyes, 85 And reascended the Olympian skies. When care-and-lineament-reaolving sleep Had laid his temples in his golden steep, His wise-in-chaste-wit-worthy wife did rise, First sitting up in her soft hed, her eyes 90 Open'd with tears, in care of her estate, Which now her friends resolv'd to terminate To more delays, and make her marry one. Her silent tears then ceas'd, her orison This Queen of women to Diana made : 95 " Rev'rend Diana, let thy darts invade My woeful bosom, and my life deprive, Now at this instant, or soon after drive My soul with tempests forth, and give it way To those far-off dark vaults, where never day 100 Hath pow"r to shine, and let them cast it down Where refluent Oceanus doth crown His curled head, where Pluto's orchard is, And entrance to our after miseries. As such stern whirlwinds ravish'd to that stream I05 Pandareus' daughters, when the Gods to them Had reft their parents, and them left alone, Poor orphan children, in their man...« less