The Choice of Achilles, and Other Poems (Classic Reprint)
| Preis: | 14.95 EUR* (inkl. MWST zzgl. Versand - Preis kann jetzt höher sein!) |
| Versand: | 0.00 EUR Versandkostenfrei innerhalb von Deutschland |
| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Butler, Arthur Gray) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Choice of Achilles, and Other Poems ´Long life and ease, or glory and the grave, Still in my prime! Oh! for an oracle To sound above these tortures of the mind, And strike their brawling silent! Never yet Since deepening manhood darkened first these lips, Bringing the larger choices of the soul, I doubted so before. Or better were it, Being so called by countrymen and friends, The eyes of Greece and Asia looking on As on a stage, to rise, to arm, to go With Godlike men, and on the plains of Troy Do battle for another´s scath and wrong? Or to stay here, here honoured, here beloved, A little land´s sole greatness? What to me Is Helen? What Atrides? Or the wrong Done to the hospitable board? Avenge, Zeus, thine own wrongs! Nay, were she all in one, White as the blossom on an April þ Chaste Artemis, with Pallas´ wisdom crowned On Aphrodite´s bloom; the perfect flower, Not as she is the weed of womankind; Still, were she worth this stir? Ye Gods, I chafe That we, with weightier quarrels of our own, Old feuds unstanched, proud vassals ill-subdued, Life´s sweet, strange thirst unslaked, unsatisfied, Should natheless for a woman´s lightness bleed, And all too soon end all. Yet am I called, The eyes of Greece and Asia looking on, Watching me choose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
* Preis kann jetzt höher sein. Den aktuellen Stand und Informationen zu den Versandkosten finden sie auf der Homepage unseres Partners.
Folgende Produkte könnten dir ebenso gefallen
