 THEY told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead ; They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept, as I remembered, how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.  The Pageant of Greece - Side 388redigeret af - 1924 - 436 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1893 - 846 sider
...were yesterday when we sat and read together : — They told me, Heracleitus, they told me tlion wert dead ; They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. The volume of verse, the lirst which he published, given to me with his own hand, lies before me now.... | |
 | William Johnson Cory - 1858 - 128 sider
...But oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die. El7T« TIC) Hpa/cAtJTS, T6OV fUtntiv. THEY told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead...tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long long ago at rest,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1910 - 914 sider
...same bird which they listened to. We have it in the epitaph of Callimachus, in Cory's translation : They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead...bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed ; I wept when I remembered how often yon and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. And... | |
 | Whitnash rectory - 1866 - 478 sider
...¿ffi Х£*Ра ßaXei. Callimachus. Tjp. JB quanta minus est cum aliis versari quam tui meminisse. They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead...tired the sun with talking, and sent him down the sky. And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long long ago at rest,... | |
 | Sertum - 1869 - 114 sider
...the accusative of the object. 192- This is translated in * Ionica' : — " They told me, Heraclitas, they told me you were dead; They brought me bitter...tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. And now that thou.art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest,... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1892 - 996 sider
...Cory's imitation of the elegiacs of Callimachus on his friend Heracleitus: They told me, Heracleitus, they told me you were dead,— They brought me bitter...tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. TURNING from Semitic literature to the Aryan And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian in its... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1873 - 444 sider
...grace of movement and a tenderness of pathos that are unsurpassed : * * "They told me, Heracleitus, they told me you were dead ; They brought me bitter...tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest,... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1923 - 700 sider
...given him over, From death to life thou might'st him yet recover. HERACLITUS BY WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead,...news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept as I remember'd how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. Potatoes dug... | |
 | 1891 - 890 sider
...point, and we make no excuse for quoting the admirable version of it which appears in " Iónica " : — They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead...tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. But now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1891 - 360 sider
...hearing the news that the poet Heraclitus — not to be confounded with the philosopher — was dead. They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead...tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. dnd now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, e/f handful of grey ashes, long long ago at... | |
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