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. Life and Literature - Page 354by Lafcadio Hearn - 1917 - 393 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Johnson Cory - 1858 - 128 pages
...Hpa/cAtJTS, T6OV fUtntiv. 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,...down the sky. And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1910 - 914 pages
...They brought me 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 now that yon are lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are... | |
| Whitnash rectory - 1866 - 478 pages
...quam tui meminisse. 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,...down the sky. And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy... | |
| Sertum - 1869 - 114 pages
...* Ionica' : — " They told me, Heraclitas, they told me you were dead; They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed ; I wept, as I remembered,...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, Still are... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1892 - 996 pages
...Heracleitus: They told me, Heracleitus, they told me you were dead,— They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept, as I remembered...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 - Greek poetry - 1873 - 444 pages
...unsurpassed : * * "They told me, Heracleitus, they told me you were dead ; They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept, as I remembered,...down the sky. And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy... | |
| Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1923 - 700 pages
...you were dead, They brought me bitter 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 from len hills each of ctrtifii-d and common stock. The certified seed at left produced... | |
| Music - 1891 - 890 pages
...Iónica " : — 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...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 - English essays - 1891 - 360 pages
...philosopher — was dead. 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,...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... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - Poetry - 1892 - 376 pages
...Heracleitus : — " They told me, Heracleitus, they told me you were dead, — They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept, as I remembered...down the sky. " And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of gray ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy... | |
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