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Homer's Iliad, in Engl. Rhymed Verse, by C. Merivale
Homer's Iliad in Engl Rhymed Verse by C Merivale Author:Homerus General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1869 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 Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: BOOK XV. UT when the Trojans fleeing the stakes and ditch had cross'd, And many 'neath the Grecians' hands had fallen, and life had lost, By their chariots stay'd they halting, all pale and sore dismay'd ; -- Woke Jove by Juno golden-throned on crest of Ida laid ; And with a bound uprose he: and either host he view'd ; The Trojans routed o'er the plain, by the Argive bands pursued, All thronging close behind them, by Neptune cheer'd along; And Hector stretch'd upon the ground his sorrowing friends among, With labouring breath, with courage fainting, and belching blood : For him no mean one of the Greeks prone on the sand had strow'd. Him Jove beheld with pity, of men and Gods the Sire; -- And frowning thus the dark-eyed queen bespake he in his ire: -- " Ha, mischief! ill-contriver ! -- 'tis craft of thine hath stay'd Brave Hector from the battle-field, and thus his hosts dismay'd ! Beshrew me, but the issue thyself shalt first essay, Smote by my hand, and scourged with thongs : -- what! mind'st thou not the day When high I lash'd and hung thee, and to thine ankles bound Two anvils, and a mighty golden chain thine arms around ? Thou 'mid the clouds suspended didst high in welkin ride; And o'er the far Olympian hill groan'd all the Powers beside. Came all, but could not loose thee: and whom I caught I hurl'd Down from our threshold to the earth, all faint and breathless whirl'd. Nor so the wrath was sated caused by my restless pain For Hercules, my seed divine, when o'er the barren main Thou cunning, ill-devising, -- the Gales and Breezes won, -- With Boreas...« less