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  • "Hymn to the Earth'
    The mother of us all,
    the oldest of all,
    9 lines
  • The Odyssey: Book 2
    Now when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared,
    Telemachus rose and dressed himself. He bound his sandals on to his
    338 lines
  • The Odyssey: Book 7
    Thus, then, did Ulysses wait and pray; but the girl drove on to
    the town. When she reached her father's house she drew up at the
    276 lines
  • The Odyssey: Book 22
    Then Ulysses tore off his rags, and sprang on to the broad
    pavement with his bow and his quiver full of arrows. He shed the
    378 lines
  • The Odyssey: Book 20
    Ulysses slept in the cloister upon an undressed bullock's hide, on
    the top of which he threw several skins of the sheep the suitors had
    317 lines
  • The Odyssey: Book 18
    Now there came a certain common tramp who used to go begging all
    over the city of Ithaca, and was notorious as an incorrigible
    343 lines
  • The Odyssey: Book 8
    Now when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared,
    Alcinous and Ulysses both rose, and Alcinous led the way to the
    464 lines
  • The Odyssey: Book 6
    So here Ulysses slept, overcome by sleep and toil; but Minerva
    went off to the country and city of the Phaecians- a people who used
    275 lines
  • The Odyssey: Book 19
    Ulysses was left in the cloister, pondering on the means whereby
    with Minerva's help he might be able to kill the suitors. Presently he
    481 lines
  • The Odyssey: Book 4
    They reached the low lying city of Lacedaemon them where they
    drove straight to the of abode Menelaus [and found him in his own
    658 lines
  • The Odyssey: Book 23
    Euryclea now went upstairs laughing to tell her mistress that her
    dear husband had come home. Her aged knees became young again and
    298 lines
  • The Odyssey: Book 3
    But as the sun was rising from the fair sea into the firmament of
    heaven to shed Blight on mortals and immortals, they reached Pylos the
    390 lines
  • The Odyssey: Book 5
    And now, as Dawn rose from her couch beside Tithonus- harbinger of light alike to mortals and immortals- the gods met in council and wit
    370 lines
  • The Odyssey: Book 16
    Meanwhile Ulysses and the swineherd had lit a fire in the hut and
    were were getting breakfast ready at daybreak for they had sent the
    368 lines
  • The Odyssey: Book 17
    When the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared,
    Telemachus bound on his sandals and took a strong spear that suited
    476 lines
  • The Odyssey: Book 9
    And Ulysses answered, King Alcinous, it is a good thing to hear a
    bard with such a divine voice as this man has. There is nothing bet
    457 lines
  • The Odyssey: Book 21
    Minerva now put it in Penelope's mind to make the suitors try
    their skill with the bow and with the iron axes, in contest among
    350 lines
  • The Iliad: Book 11
    And now as Dawn rose from her couch beside Tithonus, harbinger of
    light alike to mortals and immortals, Jove sent fierce Discord with
    687 lines
  • The Iliad: Book 14
    Nestor was sitting over his wine, but the cry of battle did not
    escape him, and he said to the son of Aesculapius, \
    423 lines
  • The Iliad: Book 4
    Now the gods were sitting with Jove in council upon the golden floor
    while Hebe went round pouring out nectar for them to drink, and as
    415 lines
  • The Iliad: Book 7
    With these words Hector passed through the gates, and his brother
    Alexandrus with him, both eager for the fray. As when heaven sends a
    365 lines, 1 comment
  • The Iliad: Book 10
    Now the other princes of the Achaeans slept soundly the whole
    night through, but Agamemnon son of Atreus was troubled, so that he
    449 lines
  • The Odyssey: Book 14
    Ulysses now left the haven, and took the rough track up through
    the wooded country and over the crest of the mountain till he
    425 lines
  • The Iliad: Book 13
    Now when Jove had thus brought Hector and the Trojans to the
    ships, he left them to their never-ending toil, and turned his keen
    690 lines
  • The Iliad: Book 21
    Now when they came to the ford of the full-flowing river Xanthus,
    begotten of immortal Jove, Achilles cut their forces in two: one
    496 lines, 1 comment
  • The Iliad: Book 17
    Brave Menelaus son of Atreus now came to know that Patroclus had
    fallen, and made his way through the front ranks clad in full armour
    593 lines, 1 comment
  • The Iliad: Book 19
    Now when Dawn in robe of saffron was hasting from the streams of
    Oceanus, to bring light to mortals and immortals, Thetis reached the
    325 lines, 1 comment
  • The Iliad: Book 18
    Thus then did they fight as it were a flaming fire. Meanwhile the
    fleet runner Antilochus, who had been sent as messenger, reached
    490 lines, 1 comment
  • The Iliad: Book 22
    Thus the Trojans in the city, scared like fawns, wiped the sweat
    from off them and drank to quench their thirst, leaning against the
    435 lines
  • The Iliad: Book 5
    Then Pallas Minerva put valour into the heart of Diomed, son of
    Tydeus, that he might excel all the other Argives, and cover himself
    705 lines
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