Search -
The Iliad of Homer done into English verse
The Iliad of Homer done into English verse Author:Homer Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BOOK XV. How Zeus turned backward the battle, and fire was cast on the galleys. JUT when through the palisade-fence and the trench the Trojans had fled, A... more »nd stricken of Danaan hands full many an one lay dead, Then stayed them beside their cars that panic-palsied folk, Then halted they, pale with their fear. And Zeus from his sleep awoke By the side of Here the golden-throned upon Ida's crown. 5 And he leapt to his feet, and on them of Achaia and Troy looked down ; Saw fleers, a huddled rout, saw them that stormed on their track, Argives, and King Poseidon amidst of the battle-wrack, Saw Hector lie on the plain, and his comrades to right and to left Sat, as he gasped hard-fetching his breath all sense-bereft, 10 Vomiting blood—no weakling Achaian had dealt that blow ! And the Father of Gods and Men had compassion, beholding him so, And to Here he spake, and his eyes with a terrible fire were aglow : "By thy mischievous guile of a truth, O Here the stubborn-willed, [15 Hath Hector been stayed from the fiht, have his people been panic-thrilled! Of a surety I know not but thou shalt thyself first taste the meed Of thy pestilent weaving of ill, when I scourge thee with thongs for thy deed ! What, mindest thou not how on high thou wast hung, and anvils twain I swung from thy feet, and about thy wrists did I cast a chain Golden, that none might break? In the welkin thou hung'st amid cloud ; 20 And through wide Olympus the Gods beheld it angry-browed : Yet none might draw nigh for thy loosing; but whomso I marked that essayed, I would grasp him, and hurl from the threshold of heaven, till low he was laid On the earth all faint: yet not even so might my wrath be assuaged, My quenchless fury for heaven-born Herakles' sake that raged, 25 ...« less