Heroic

Battles, great deeds, courage in the face of fate: heroic poems, from ancient epics to modern songs. On Loëly.

William B. Yeats

Herman Melville

Charles Sorley

Joseph Addison

Emily Jane Pfeiffer

William Wordsworth

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Charles Sorley

George Santayana

Publius Virgile

Publius Virgile

Publius Virgile

Publius Virgile

Publius Virgile

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Heroic

A Crazed Girl

A Dirge For McPherson

A Letter From the Trenches to a School Friend

A Poem To His Majesty, Presented To The Lord Keeper. To The Right Hon. Sir John Somers, Lord Keeper

A Prayer To Athena

A Scot to Jeanne D’Arc

Ah! Where Is Palafox? Nor Tongue Nor Pen

An Ode

Barbury Camp

Before A Statue Of Achilles

Book I

Book I - Forbear! the progeny of Jove replies

Book I - O parent goddess

Book I - O tyrant, armed with insolence and pride

Book I - The trembling priest along the shore

Book I - The wrath of Peleus' son

Book II - As on some mountain, through the lofty grove

Book II - Fly hence, deluding Dream

Book II - Now when the child of morning and rosy-fingered Dawn appeared

Book II - Say, Virgins, seated round the throne divine

Book II - The phantom said; then vanished from his sight

Book II - With this Telemachus dashed his staff to the ground

Book III - Atrides then his massy lance prepares

Book IV - All that you have been saying, my dear wife, is true

Book IV - Dear Pledges of my Love

Book IV - Seized with affright the boldest foes appear

Book IV - Such were his Looks, so gracefully he spoke

Book IV - Thus, while he spoke, already She began

Book IV - Your discretion, my friend, is beyond your years

Book IX - But the Cyclops, groaning and in an agony of pain

Book IX - I was driven thence by foul winds for a space of nine days

Book IX - When the child of morning rosy-fingered dawn appeared, he again lit his fire

Book IX - When we got to the land, which was not far

Book V - But Pallas now Tydides' soul inspires

Book V - Thereon he gathered his clouds together, grasped his trident

Book V - While he was thus in two minds a wave caught him

Book VI - Then thus reply'd the Prophetess Divine

Book VI - When they reached the water side they went to the washing cisterns

Book X - I divided them into two companies and set a captain over each

Book X - Thence we went on to the Æolian island

Book XI - The ghost of Achilles came up to us

Book XI - The ghosts of other dead men stood near me

Book XI - Then came also the ghost of Theban Teiresias

Book XI - We got into the deep waters of the river Oceanus

Book XI - When Proserpine had dismissed the female ghosts

Book XII - For six days my men kept driving in the best cows

Book XII - Here she ended, and dawn enthroned in gold began to show in heaven

Book XII - Immediately after we had got past the island I saw a great wave

Book XII - We reached the noble island of the sun-god

Book XIII - When they got to the water side the crew took these things

Book XIV - Ulysses now left the haven, and took the rough track

Book XIX - Soon as Aurora heaved her orient head

Book XIX - Then the old woman took the cauldron

Book XV - First of the field, great Ajax strikes their eyes

Book XVI - Lie there, Patroclus

Book XVII - A dog that had been lying asleep raised his head

Book XVII - Immediately afterwards Ulysses came inside

Book XVII - They reached the fountain from which the citizens drew their water

Book XVIII - A flood of tears, at this, the goddess shed

Book XVIII - Stood Nestor's son, the messenger of woe

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