The Whole Works of Homer, Prince of Poetts Volume 3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... their appetites, Since he, that rul d as it in right behov d, That all his subjects as his children lov d, Finds you so thoughtless of him and his birth. Thus men begin to say, ye rule in earth, 2 And grudge at what ye let him undergo, Who yet the least part of his suff rance know: T hrall d in an island, shipwrack d in his tears, And, in the fancies that Calypso bears, Bound from his birthright, all his shipping gone, 25 And of his soldiers not retaining one. And now his most-lov d son s life doth inflame Their slaught rous envies; since his father s fame He puts in pursuit, and is gone as far As sacred Pylos, and the singular 3 Dame-breeding Sparta. This, with this reply, The Cloud-assembler answer d: What words fly Thine own remembrance, daughter Hast not thou The counsel giv n thyself, that told thee how Ulysses shall with his return address 35 His Wooers wrong And, for the safe access His son shall make to his innative port, Do thou direct it, in as curious sort As thy wit serves thee; it obeys thy pow rs; And in their ship return the speedless Wooers. 40 Then turn d he to his issue Mercury, And said: Thou hast made good our ambassy To th other Statists, to the Nymph then now, On whose fair head a tuft of gold doth grow, Bear our true-spoken counsel, for retreat 45 Of patient Ulysses; who shall get No aid from us, nor any mortal man, But in a patch d-up skiff (built as he can, And sufl"ring woes enough) the twentieth day At fruitful Scheria let him breathe his way, 50 With the Phaeacians, that half Deities live, Who like a God will honour him, and give His wisdom clothes, and ship, and brass, and...