[Gutenberg 1042] • A Reading of Life, with Other Poems

Excerpt from A Reading of Life: With Other Poems

Never in deep-soiled Phthia, the nurser of heroes, my harvests

Ravaged, they; for between us is numbered full many a darksome

Mountain, ay, therewith too the stretch of the windy seawaters.

0 hugely shameless! thee did we follow to hearten thee, justice

Pluck from the Dardans for him, Menelaos, thee too, thou dog-eyed!

Whereof little thy thought is, nought whatever thou reckest.

Worse, it is thou whose threat 'tis to ravish my prize from me, portion

Won with much labour, the which my gift from the sons of Achaia.

Never, in sooth, have I known my prize equal thine when Achaians

Gave some flourishing populous Trojan town up to pillage.

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