The Last Pythagorean: Book 1

✍ Scribed by L.C. Maciel

• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
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• Category: Fiction
• ASIN: B086BWPS92

✦ Synopsis

ABRAHAM COWLEY (1618-1667) : TRANSLATED PARAPHRASTICALLY FROM THE GREEK ; Anacreontea -- Love / Drinking / The Grasshopper / from The Epicure -- IMITATED FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Ode: Acme and Septimius -- IMITATED FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book I, 5 / from Odes, Book III, 1 / Satires, Book II, 6 -- FROM THE LATIN OF SENECA ; Chorus from Thyestes, Act II -- IMITATED FROM THE LATIN OF MARTIAL ; Epigrams, Book V, 59 -- FROM THE LATIN OF CLAUDIAN ; The Old Man of Verona -- ANDREW MARVELL (1621-1678) : FROM THE LATIN OF SENECA ; Chorus from Thyestes, Act II -- HENRY VAUGHAN (1622-1695) : FROM THE LATIN OF OVID ; from Tristium, Book V, Elegy 3 / De Ponto, Book III, Elegy 7 / from De Ponto, Book IV, Elegy 3a / from Tristium, Book III, Elegy 3a -- FROM THE LATIN OF JUVENAL ; from Satires, X -- FROM THE LATIN OF BOETHIUS ; from The Consolation of Philosophy;JOSEPH ADDISON (1672-1719) : FROM THE LATIN OF OVID ; Metamorphoses -- 'Apollo, Phaeton, and the Chariot oj the Sun' -- NICHOLAS ROWE (1674-1718) : FROM THE LATIN OF LUCAN ; Pharsalia -- 'The Rivalry between Caesar and Pompey' -- ISAAC WATTS (1674-1748) : IMITATED FROM THE HEBREW ; Psalm 90: 1-5 -- THOMAS PARNELL (1679-1718) : FROM THE GREEK (formerly ascribed to Homer) ; from The Battle of the Frogs and Mice -- ELIJAH FENTON (1683-1730) : FROM THE LATIN OF MARTIAL ; Epigram (ascribed) / Epigrams, Book X, 47 -- JOHN GAY (1685-1732) : FROM THE LATIN OF OVID ; Metamorphoses -- 'Arachne challenges Athene' -- WILLIAM DIAPER (?1686-1717) : FROM THE GREEK OF OPPIAN ; Halieutica -- 'Eels' / 'The Lampreys' / 'The Slime-Fish' -- ALLAN RAMSAY (1686-1758) : IMITATED FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book I, 4 / Odes, Book I, 31;JOHN MILTON (1608-1674) : FROM THE HEBREW ; Psalm 2 / Psalm 3 -- FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book I, 5 -- SIR MATTHEW HALE (1609-1676) : FROM THE LATIN OF SENECA ; Chorus from Thyestes, Act II -- RICHARD CRASHAW (1612/13-1649) : FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, V -- FROM THE LATIN OF THOMAS OF CELANO ; The Day of Judgment -- FROM THE ITALIAN OF GIOVAN BATTISTA MARINO ; from The Massacre of the Innocents / Madrigal XI -- SIR JOHN DENHAM (1615-1669) : FROM THE GREEK OF HOMER ; The Illiad, Book XII -- Sarpedon's Speech to Glaucus -- FROM THE LATIN OF VIRGIL ; The Aeneid -- The Destruction of Troy / The Passion of Dido for Aeneas -- FROM THE LATIN OF MARTIAL ; Epigrams, Book XI, 104 -- SIR EDWARD SHERBURNE (1616-1702) : FROM THE LATIN OF MARTIAL ; Epigrams, Book XII, 17 -- RICHARD LOVELACE (1618-1658) : FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, XIII / Carmina, LXIX / Carmina, LXX / Carmina, LXXII / Carmina, LXXXV -- FROM THE LATIN OF AUSONIUS ; 'On the Sicilian strand a Hare well wrought';THOMAS STANLEY (1626-1678) : FROM THE GREEK ; Anacreontea -- Beauty / The Grasshopper / 'Young Men Dancing' -- FROM THE LATIN (ANONYMOUS) ; from Venus Vigils -- FROM THE LATIN OF JOHANNES SECUNDUS ; Basia, VIII -- FROM THE ITALIAN OF GIROLAMO CASONE ; Time Recover'd -- FROM THE SPANISH OF JUAN PEREZ DE MONTALVAN ; The Self-Deceaver -- JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700) : FROM THE GREEK OF HOMER ; The Iliad -- 'The Invocation' / 'Achilles, threatened by Agamemnon' / 'Achilles' Wrath' / 'The Sacrifice to Apollo' / 'Thetis asks Jove to revenge her Son Achilles' -- FROM THE GREEK OF THEOCRITUS ; Idylls, XXVII -- FROM THE LATIN OF LUCRETIUS ; De Rerum Natura -- 'Delight of Humane kind, and Gods above' / 'Against the Fear of Death' -- FROM THE LATIN OF VIRGIL ; The Aeneid -- 'Arms, and the Man I sing, who, forc'd by Fate, ' / 'The Building of Carthage' / 'Fame' / 'Charon' / 'Diomede mourns his Fate' / 'Turnus and the wanton Courser' / 'Turnus and the Stone' -- FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book I, 9 / Odes, Book III, 29 -- FROM THE LATIN OF OVID ; Metamorphoses -- 'Jove looses the South Wind' / 'Deucalion and Pyrrha' / Baucis and Philemon / 'Iris descends to the Cave of Sleep' / 'Of the Pythagorean Philosophy' -- FROM THE LATIN OF JUVENAL ; from Satires, VI / from Satires, X -- FROM THE MIDDLE ENGLISH OF CHAUCER ; from The Cock and the Pox;ROBERT HERRICK (1591-1674) : FROM THE GREEK ; Anacreontea -- The Wounded Cupid. Song / The Cheat of Cupid: or, The Ungentle Guest -- FROM THE GREEK OF MELEAGER ; Upon a Maid that Dyed the Day She Was Marryed -- FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book III, 9 -- FROM THE LATIN OF MARTIAL ; Epigrams, Book XI, 16: 9-10 -- THOMAS CAREW (?1598-?1639) : FROM THE ITALIAN OF GIOVANNI BATTISTA GUARINI ; A Ladies prayer to Cupid -- FROM THE ITALIAN OF GIOVAN BATTISTA MARINO ; Lips and Eyes -- WILLIAM STRODE (?1600-?1645) : FROM THE LATIN OF FAMIANUS STRADA ; The Nightingale -- SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE (1608-1666) : FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book I, 5 / Odes, Book I, 8 / Odes, Book I, 9 -- OUT OF THE LATIN OF MARTIAL ; Epigrams, Book X, 47 -- FROM THE PORTUGUESE OF LUIS VAZ DE CAMOENS ; The Luciad -- 'Dione and the Sea-Nymphs' / 'The Moors of Melinde welcome the Portuguese' -- FROM THE ITALIAN OF GIOVANNI BATTISTA GUARINI ; Il Pastor Fido -- 'The Speech of Corsica' / 'Kissing Chorus' / 'Corsica encourages Amarillis to love' / Chorus -- FROM THE SPANISH OF GONGORA ; A Great Favorit Beheaded;WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR (1775-1864) : EXPANDED FROM THE GREEK OF SAPPHO ; 'Mother, I cannot mind my wheel; ' -- FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, V -- Carmina, XXXIX -- Carmina, LXXV -- Carmina, LXXXV -- FRANCIS HOWES (1776-1844) : FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; from Epistles, Book I, 7 -- LEIGH HUNT (1784-1859) : FROM THE ITALIAN OF TASSO ; Aminta, Chorus I -- FROM THE ITALIAN OF FRANCESCO REDI ; from Bacchus in Tuscany -- LORD GEORGE GORDON BYRON (1788-1824) : A BURLESQUE FROM THE GREEK OF EURIPIDES ; The Nurse's Dole in the Medea -- FROM THE LATIN OF MARTIAL ; Epigrams, Book I, 1 -- FROM THE LATIN OF THE EMPEROR HADRIAN ; Hadrian's Address to his Soul when Dying -- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822) : FROM THE GREEK (formerly ascribed to Homer) ; from Homer's Hymn to Mercury -- FROM THE GREEK OF PLATO ; To Stella / Kissing Helena -- FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY ; Spirit of Plato -- FROM THE GREEK OF MOSCHUS ; 'Pan loved his neighbour Echo-' / 'When winds that move not its calm surface sweep' -- FROM THE ITALIAN OF CAVALCANTI ; Sonnet: Guido Cavalcanti to Dante -- FROM THE ITALIAN OF DANTE ; Sonnet: Dante Alighieri to Guido Cavalcanti / The First Canzone of the Convito / from The Purgatorio, Canto XXVIII -- FROM THE GERMAN OF GOETHE ; Faust -- The Chorus of the Archangels / Shelley's' literal' version of the above;SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554-1586) : FROM THE GREEK OF SAPPHO ; 'My muse, what ails this ardour?' -- FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, LXX -- FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book II -- FROM THE HEBREW via other sources ; Psalm 11 / Psalm 13 / Psalm 17 / from Psalm 19 -- MARY HERBERT, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE (1561-1621) : FROM THE HEBREW via other sources ; Psalm 52 / from Psalm 55 / from Psalm 72 / from Psalm 78 / from Psalm 139 -- GEORGE CHAPMAN (?1559-?1634) : FROM THE GREEK OF HOMER ; The Iliad -- 'The Greeks like Bees' / 'The Greeks like the Sea, the Trojans like Ewes' / 'The Greeks like Clouds' / 'Men like Leaves' / 'Paris and the Courser' / 'Jove's cold-sharpe javelines' / 'The two Ajaxes compared to Oxen' / 'Paris and Menelaus' / 'The old Trojan Chiefs see Helen' / 'Hector's Child and the Plume' / 'Night Piece: the Trojans outside Troy' -- The Odyssey -- 'Mercury is sent by Jupiter to Calypso' / 'Ulysses builds his Ship' / 'The Wrecking of the Ship' / 'The Garden of Alcinous' / 'Ulysses and his Mother's Spirit' / 'Penelope fetches Ulysses' Bow' / 'The Flight of the Wooers' / 'Pallas glorifies Ulysses';CZESLAW MILOSZ (1911- ) : FROM THE POLISH OF ZBIGNIEW HERBERT ; Elegy of Fortinbras -- GEORGE JOHNSTON (1913- ) : FROM THE ICELANDIC ; The Saga of Gisli -- 'Wife, land of the wave fire, ' / 'Goddess of threads gladly' -- CHARLES H. SISSON (1914- ) : IMITATED FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Carmen Saeculare -- DOUGLAS YOUNG (1913- ) : FROM THE GREEK OF SAPPHO ; 'Minnie, I canna caa my wheel, ' / 'Caller rain frae abune' / 'Deid sail ye ligg, and ne'er a memorie' -- FROM THE FRENCH OF PAUL VALERY ; from The Kirkyaird by the Sea -- SIDNEY GOODSIR SMITH (1915- ) : FROM THE FRENCH OF TRISTAN CORBIERE ; from 'The Gangrel Rymour and the Pairdon of Sanct Anne' -- DAVID GASCOYNE (1916- ) : FROM THE GERMAN OF FRIEDRICH HOLDERLIN ; Patmos -- TOM SCOTT (1916- ) : FROM THE FRENCH OF FRANCOIS VILLON ; Ballet O the Leddies O Langsyne / Ballat O the Hingit -- ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977) : FROM THE LATIN OF JUVENAL ; from The Vanity of Human Wishes -- FROM THE ITALIAN OF DANTE ; Brunetto Latini, 'Inferno, ' Canto XV -- FROM THE ITALIAN OF GIACOMO LEOPARDI ; Saturday Night in the Village -- FROM THE FRENCH OF PAUL VALERY ; Helen;SIR THEODORE MARTIN (1816-1909) : FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Epistles, Book I, 19 -- BRANWELL BRONTE (1817-1848) : FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book I, 21 / Odes, Book I, 23 -- JOHN CONINGTON (1825-1869) : FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Epistles, Book I, 5 / Epistles, Book I, 14 -- DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (1828-1882) : FROM THE ITALIAN OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI ; Cantica: Our Lord Christ: of order -- FROM THE ITALIAN OF GUIDO GUINICELLI ; Canzone: Of the gentle Heart -- FROM THE ITALIAN OF PIER MORONELLI DA FIORENZA ; Canzonetta: A bitter Song to his Lady -- FROM THE ITALIAN OF NICCOLO DEGLI ALBIZZI ; Prolonged Sonnet -- FROM THE ITALIAN OF DANTE ; Sestina: Of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni -- FROM THE FRENCH OF FRANCOIS VILLON ; The Ballad of Dead Ladies -- GEORGE MEREDITH (1828-1909) : FROM THE GERMAN OF EDUARD MORICKE ; Beauty Rohtraut -- CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY (1831-1884) : FROM THE GREEK OF THEOCRITUS ; The Fishermen -- FROM THE GERMAN OF HEINRICH HEINE ; 'I crave an ampler, worthier sphere; ' -- WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) (with Eiriks Magnusson) : FROM THE OLD NORSE ; The Elder Edda -- The First Lay of Gudrun / Part of the Lay of Sigrdifa / from The Short Lay of Sigurd;HUGH MACDIARMID (1892-1978) : FROM THE GERMAN OF RUDOLF LEONHARD ; The Dead Liebknecht -- FROM THE CRETAN ; Under the Greenwood Tree / The Robber -- BASIL BUNTING (1900- ) : FROM THE PERSIAN OF FIRDOSI ; 'When the sword of sixty comes nigh his head' -- FROM THE PERSIAN OF RUDAKI ; 'Came to me-' -- ROY CAMPBELL (1901-1957) : FROM THE SPANISH OF SAN JUAN DE LA CRUZ ; Upon a Gloomy Night / from Coplas about the soul... -- FROM THE FRENCH OF CHARLES BAUDELAIRE ; The Giantess / The Seven Old Men -- JAMES BLAIR LEISHMAN (1902-1963) : FROM THE GERMAN OF FRIEDRICH HOLDERLIN ; Half of Life / Ripe, Being Plunged into Fire... -- FROM THE GERMAN OF RAINER MARIA RILKE ; Annunciation / Sonnets to Orpheus: Second Part -- STEVIE SMITH (1903-1971) : FROM THE LATIN OF THE EMPEROR HADRIAN ; The Emperor Hadrian to his Soul -- FRANK O'CONNOR (1903-1966) : FROM THE IRISH OF BRYAN MERRYMAN ; from The Midnight Court -- CELIA and LOUIS ZUKOFSKY (the latter 1904-1978) : FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, VIII / Carmina, XL -- KENNETH REXROTH (1905- ) : FROM THE GREEK OF SAPPHO ; '...about the cool water' -- FROM THE GREEK OF ANYTE ; 'I, Hermes, have been set up' -- FROM THE GREEK OF ANTIPATER OF SIDON ; 'Never again, Orpheus' -- FROM THE GREEK OF SIMONIDES ; 'Stranger, when you come to' -- FROM THE GREEK ; The Last Utterance of the Delphic Oracle;OMAR POUND (1926- ) : FROM THE PERSIAN OF IBN HAZM AL-ANDALUSI ; Twice times then is now -- GUY DAVENPORT (1927- ) : FROM THE GREEK OF SAPPHO ; 'Come out of Crete' / The Marriage of Hector and Andromache' / [ ] -- FROM THE LATIN OF ARCHILOCHUS ; 'This island, ' / 'Like Odysseus under the ram' / 'Decks awash, ' / 'May he lose his way on the cold sea' -- WILLIAM S. MERWIN (1927- ) : FROM THE FRENCH OF GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE ; The Mirabeau Bridge -- FROM THE RUSSIAN OF OSIP MANDELSTAM (with Clarence Brown) ; Batyushkov / Ariosto -- CHARLES TOMLINSON (1927- ) : FROM THE SPANISH OF ANTONIO MACHADO (with Henry Gifford) ; Lament of the Virtues and Verses on Account of the Death of Don Guido -- FROM THE ITALIAN OF LUCIO PICCOLO ; Veneris Venefica Agrestis -- FROM THE SPANISH OF OCTAVIO PAZ ; Landscape -- JOHN MONTAGUE (1929- ) : (after Kuno Meyer) FROM THE IRISH ; The Vision of MacConglinne -- PETER PORTER (1929- ) : FROM THE GREEK OF LUCILIUS ; 'Lean Gaius, who was thinner than a straw' -- FROM THE LATIN OF MARTIAL ; Epigrams, Book I, 43 / Epigrams, Book II, 52 / Epigrams, Book IV, 18;MARTIN BELL (1918- ) : FROM THE FRENCH OF JULES LA FORGUE ; Winter Coming On -- EDWIN MORGAN (1920- ) : FROM THE HUNGARIAN OF SANDOR WEORES ; from The Lost Parasol -- DONALD DAVIE (1922- ) : FROM THE POLISH OF ADAM MICKIEWICZ (via the prose version of George Rapall Noyes) ; The Year 1812 -- FROM THE FRENCH OF STEPHANE MALLARME ; Prose for Des Esseintes -- MICHAEL HAMBURGER (1924- ) : FROM THE GERMAN OF PAUL CELAN ; Your Hand Full of Hours / Psalm / ...plashes the fountain / Thread Suns / Etched Away From / Leap-Centuries / Irish -- ALAN NEAME (1924- ) : FROM THE FRENCH OF JEAN COCTEAU ; from Leoun -- PETER WHIGHAM (1925- ) : FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Attis -- CHRISTOPHER LOGUE (1926- ) : FROM THE GREEK OF HOMER ; from Patrocleia (The Iliad, Book XVI) -- CHRISTOPHER MIDDLETON (1926- ) : FROM THE GERMAN OF PAUL CELAN ; The Jugs / Fugue of Death;SIR JOHN HARINGTON (1561-1612) : FROM THE ITALIAN OF ARIOSTO ; Orlando Furioso -- 'Alcyna leads astray Rogero' / 'The Archangel Michael sets out' / 'Ariosto celebrates the Martyrdom of Isabella' -- CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564-1593) : FROM THE LATIN OF OVID ; Elegies, Book I, 5 / Elegies, Book I, 13 / Elegies, Book II, 1 / Elegies, Book III, 6 / Elegies, Book III, 13 -- THOMAS UNDERDOWNE (fl. 1566 -- 1587) : FROM THE LATIN OF OVID ; from Invective against Ibis -- THOMAS CAMPION (1567-1619) : IMITATED FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, V / Carmina, VIII -- IMITATED FROM THE LATIN OF PROPERTIUS ; Carmina, II -- THE AUTHORIZED VERSION OF THE BIBLE (1611) : FROM THE HEBREW ; 2 Samuel 1: 19-27 / Job 3: 3-26 / Job 14 / Job 38 / Job 39 / Job 40 / Job 41 / Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8 / Ecclesiastes 11: 1-8 / Ecclesiastes 12: 1-8 / The Song of Solomon 1 / The Song of Solomon 2 / The Song of Solomon 5 / Isaiah 11: 1-II / Isaiah 35 / Isaiah 40: 1-8 / Jeremiah 4: 3-31 -- FROM THE HEBREW VIA THE GREEK ; Ecclesiasticus 14: 17-18 / Ecclesiasticus 43: 13-26 / Ecclesiasticus 44: 1-15 -- FROM THE GREEK OF THE NEW TESTAMENT ; Matthew 5: 3-16 / Matthew 6: 24-9 / Mark 4: 26-32 / Luke 1: 46-55 / Luke 12: 32-40 / John 15: 1-8;HILDA DOOLITTLE (1886-1961) : FROM THE GREEK OF EURIPIDES ; Chorus from Iphigeneia in Aulis -- MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972) : FROM THE FRENCH OF JEAN DE LA FONTAINE ; The Fox and the Crow / The Wolf and the Stork / The Donkey and the Lapdog / The Rat and the Elephant -- ELIZABETH DARYUSH (1887-1977) : FROM THE PERSIAN OF JALAL UD DIN RUMI ; 'I am your mother, your mother's mother, ' -- THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT (1888-1965) : FROM HIS OWN FRENCH ; Death by Water -- FROM THE FRENCH OF SAINT-JOHN PERSE ; Anabasis, IV -- ARTHUR WALEY (1889-1966) : FROM THE CHINESE (ANONYMOUS) ; The Ejected Wife ; 'Yellow dusk: messenger fails to appear.' ; 'In her boudoir, the young lady...' / Plucking the Rushes -- FROM THE CHINESE OF PO CHU-I ; Lazy Man's Song / Starting Early from the Ch' U-Ch'eng Inn / Eating Bamboo-Shoots / Invitation to Hsiao Ch'U-Shih / The Cranes -- FROM THE CHINESE OF SU TUNG-P'O ; On the Birth of his Son -- JOHN PEALE BISHOP (1892-1944) : FROM THE GREEK OF EUENOS ; To a Swallow;Our vast and often neglected literature of poetic translation is represented in this anthology by some 600 poems or extracts. The choice encompasses many languages, including the Hebrew of the Bible, the Greek of Homer, the Latin of Virgil and Ovid, Persian, French, German, Russian, Italian, Anglo-Saxon, Icelandic, Irish, and the American Indian, all rendered into English.;ARTHUR GOLDING (?1536-?1605) : FROM THE LATIN OF OVID ; Metamorphoses -- 'Daphne and Apollo' / 'Address to Bacchus' / 'Proserpine and Dis' / 'Medea's Incantation' / 'Daedalus and Icarus' / 'Atalanta' / 'Atalanta and Hippomenes' / 'Polypheme woos Galatea' / 'The Conclusion' -- GEORGE TURBERVILLE (?1540-?1610) : FROM THE LATIN OF OVID ; Heroides -- from Oenone to Paris -- EDMUND SPENSER (?1552-1599) : FROM THE FRENCH OF DU BELLAY ; Antiquitez de Rome -- 'Thou stranger, which for Rome in Rome here seekest, ' / 'Who list the Romane greatnes forth to figure, ' -- FROM THE ITALIAN OF TASSO ; from Gerusalemme Liberata -- 'The whiles some one did chaunt this lovely lay; -- SIR WALTER RALEGH (?1552-1618) : FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, V. 4-6 -- FROM THE LATIN OF VIRGIL ; from The Aeneid -- 'The heaven, the earth, and all the liquid mayne, ' -- FROM THE LATIN OF LUCAN ; from Pharsalia -- 'O wastfull Riot, never well content' -- FROM THE LATIN OF AUSONIUS ; Epigrams, CXVIII;SOAME JENYNS (?1703/4-1787) : FROM THE LATIN OF PETRONIUS AFRANIUS ; The Snow-ball -- PHILIP FRANCIS (?1708-1773) : FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book I, 25 -- SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) : FROM THE GREEK OF HOMER ; The Iliad, Book VI, 146 -- FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book I, 22 / Odes, Book IV, 7 -- FROM THE LATIN OF BOETHIUS ; The Consolation of Philosophy -- Book II, 2 / Book III, 9 / from Book III, 12 -- THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771) : FROM THE WELSH OF ANEIRIN ; from The Gododdin -- ANONYMOUS (published 1717) : FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, IV -- CHRISTOPHER SMART (1722-1771) : FROM THE HEBREW (via the Prayer Book) ; Psalm 8 / Psalm 114 / from Psalm 148 -- FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book I, 5 / Odes, Book I, 38 / Odes, Book II, 18 -- WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800) : FROM THE GREEK OF HOMER ; The Iliad -- 'The Greeks like Fire, Birds, Flies' / 'The two Ajaxes like Oxen' / 'As when an architect...' / 'The Trojans outside Troy' / 'Patroclus spears Thestor' -- The Odyssey ; 'Jove sends Hermes to Calypso' / 'Scylla and Charybdis' -- FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY ; An Epitaph / By Heraclides / To the Swallow / On Late-Acquired Wealth -- FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book I, 38 / Odes, Book II, 10 -- FROM THE LATIN OF VINCENT BOURNE ; The Snail;JOHN DONNE (1572-1631) : FROM THE LATIN OF GAZAEUS ; Vota Amico Facta, Fol. 160 -- FROM HIS OWN LATIN ; To Mr. George Herbert -- EDWARD FAIRFAX (d. 1635) : FROM THE ITALIAN OF TASSO ; The Recoverie of Jerusalem -- 'Armida sets out to undo the Crusaders' / 'In Armida's Garden' -- BEN JONSON (1572-1637) : IMITATED FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, V / Carmina, V and VII -- FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Epodes, II / Odes, Book IV, 1 -- Ars Poetica -- 'Words like the Woods' -- FROM THE LATIN ASCRIBED TO PETRONIUS ; 'Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short; ' -- FROM THE LATIN OF LUCAN ; from Pharsalia -- FROM THE LATIN OF MARTIAL ; Epigrams, Book X, 47 -- ADAPTED FROM THE GREEK OF PHILOSTRATUS ; To Celia -- SIR JOHN BEAUMONT (1582-1628) : FROM THE LATIN OF VIRGIL ; Eclogues, IV -- DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN (1585-1649) : FROM THE FRENCH OF JEAN PASSERAT ; Song -- ANONYMOUS (published 1588) : FROM THE GREEK OF THEOCRITUS ; Idylls, XX;EZRA POUND (1885-1973) : FROM THE ITALIAN OF GUIDO CAVALCANTI ; Sonnet VII -- FROM THE PROVENCAL OF ARNAUT DANIEL ; Alba -- FROM THE CHINESE OF WU-TI ; Liu-Ch'e -- FROM THE CHINESE ; Cathay -- Song of the Bowmen of Shu (Anon.) / The Beautiful Toilet (Anon.) / The River Merchant's Wife: a Letter (Li Po) / Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin (Li Po) / The Jewel Stairs' Grievance (Li Po) / Lament of the Frontier Guard (Li Po) / South-Folk in Cold Country (Anon.) -- A TRAVESTY OF PROPERTIUS' LATIN ; Homage to Sextus Propertius -- A CONDENSATION OF HOMER ; from The Odyssey, Book XI -- FROM THE ITALIAN OF GUIDO CAVALCANTI ; Donna Me Prega -- FROM THE CHINESE BOOK OF RITES ; 'Know then:' -- FROM THE CHINESE OF THE CLASSIC ANTHOLOGY DEFINED BY CONFUCIUS ; 'Pine boat a-shift' / Pedlar / 'Wide, Ho?' / Toujours la Politesse / Fraternitas / 'Pick a fern...' / 'Fine fish to net, ' / 'For an officer' / 'For deep deer-copse beneath Mount Han' / 'Full be the year, abundant be the grain, ' -- FROM THE GREEK OF SOPHOCLES ; Choruses from Women of Trachis -- FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, LXXXV;JOHN KEATS (1795-1821) : FROM THE FRENCH OF RONSARD ; 'Nature withheld Cassandra in the skies, ' -- THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES (1803-1849) : FROM THE GERMAN OF WALTHER VON DER VOGELWEIDE ; Song -- ELIZUR WRIGHT (1804-1885) : FROM THE FRENCH OF JEAN DE LA FONTAINE ; The Wolf and the Dog / The City Rat and the Country Rat / The Man and his Image / The Eagle and the Beetle -- ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861) : FROM THE GREEK OF THEOCRITUS ; Idylls, XI -- FROM THE GERMAN OF HEINRICH HEINE ; 'My child, we were two children, ' -- EDWARD FITZGERALD (1809-1883) : FROM THE PERSIAN OF OMAR KHAYYAM ; from The Rubtiiyat -- ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809-1892) : FROM THE GREEK OF HOMER ; The Iliad -- Book IV, 446-56 / Book VI, 503-14 / Book VIII, 542-63 / Book XVIII, 202: Achilles Over the Trench -- FROM THE ANGLO-SAXON ; Battle of Brunanburh -- WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY (1811-1863) : PARAPHRASED FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book I, 38;ELAINE FEINSTEIN' (1930- ) (with Angela Livingstone) : FROM THE RUSSIAN OF MARINA TSVETAYEVA ; from The Poem of the End -- TED HUGHES (1930- ) (with Janos Csokits) : FROM THE HUNGARIAN OF JANOS PILINSZKY ; The Desert of Love / Fable -- JON STALLWORTHY (1935- ) (with Peter France) : FROM THE RUSSIAN OF ALEXANDER BLOK ; A Red Glow in the Sky / from Dances of Death -- CHRISTOPHER PILLING (1936- ) : FROM THE FRENCH OF TRISTAN CORBIERE ; from Litany of Sleep -- KEITH BOSLEY (1937- ) : FROM THE FRENCH OF STEPHANE MALLARME ; The Glazier / Album Leaf -- TONY HARRISON (1937- ) : FROM THE GREEK OF PALLADAS ; 'Loving the rituals that keep men close, ' / 'Racing, reckoning fingers flick' / 'Poor devil that I am, ...' / 'Grammar commences with a 5-line curse:' / 'When you send out invitations, ...' -- JAMES GREENE (1938- ) : FROM THE RUSSIAN OF OSIP MANDELSTAM ; Notre Dame / 'Phaedra' / 'Not yet dead, not yet alone, ' -- MICHAEL ALEXANDER (1941- ) : FROM THE EARLY ENGLISH ; The Seafarer.;HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY (?1517-1547) : FROM THE LATIN OF VIRGIL ; The Aeneid -- 'Laocoon' / 'Dido to her Sister Anna' / 'Dido by Night' -- FROM THE LATIN OF MARTIAL ; Epigrams, Book X, 47 -- FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book II, 10 -- FROM THE ITALIAN OF PETRARCH ; Sonetto in Vita 113 / Sonetto in Morte 42 / Rime 140 -- JASPER HEYWOOD (1535-1598) : FROM THE LATIN OF SENECA ; Chorus from Hercules Furens, Act IV / Chorus from Thyestes, Act II / Chorus from Thyestes, Act III -- JOHN STUDLEY (?1545-1590) : FROM THE LATIN OF SENECA ; Chorus from Medea, Act III / Chorus from Medea, Act IV / Chorus from Hercules Oetaetus, Act II -- RICHARD STANYHURST (1536-1618) : FROM THE LATIN OF VIRGIL ; The Aeneid -- 'Now manhood and garbroyls I chaunt' / 'Aeneas sails from Crete';WILLIAM WALSH (1663-1708) : FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, LXXII -- MATTHEW PRIOR (1664-1721) : FROM THE GREEK OF MOSCHUS ; Cupid a Plowman -- FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, XXII -- FROM THE LATIN OF THE EMPEROR HADRIAN ; Adriani Morientis ad Animam Suam. Imitated. -- FROM THE FRENCH OF DE GOMBAULD ; Epigram -- JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745) : FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, XCII -- FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; from Odes, Book III, 2 / Part of the 9th Ode of the 4th Book of Horace -- FROM THE IRISH OF HUGH MACGOWRAN ; The Description of an Irish-Feast -- FROM THE FRENCH (ANONYMOUS) ; Epigram on Fasting -- WILLIAM CONGREVE (1670-1729) : FROM THE GREEK OF HOMER ; The Iliad -- Andromache's Lamentation / Helen's Lamentation -- FROM THE GREEK (formerly ascribed to Homer) ; The Hymn to Venus -- 'Venus goes after Anchises' / 'Venus tells Anchises the Story oj Aurora and Tithonus';THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928) : FROM THE GREEK OF SAPPHO ; Sapphic Fragment -- FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, XXXI -- LADY AUGUSTA GREGORY (1859-1932) : FROM THE IRISH ; The Hag of Beare -- DOUGLAS HYDE (1860-1949) : FROM THE IRISH ; The Roman Earl -- WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939) : ADAPTED FROM THE GREEK OF SOPHOCLES ; From Oedipus at Colonus -- FROM THE LATIN OF JONATHAN SWIFT ; Swift's Epitaph -- ARTHUR SYMONS (1865-1945) : FROM THE FRENCH OF PAUL VERLAINE ; A la Promenade ; Cortege ; Femme et Chatte -- EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935) : FROM THE GREEK OF POSEIDIPPOS ; Doricha -- SIR EDWARD MARSH (1872-1953) : FROM THE FRENCH OF JEAN DE LA FONTAINE ; The Hag and the Slavies -- WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955) : FROM THE FRENCH OF JEAN LE ROY ; 'I feel an. apparition, ' -- WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963) : FROM THE GREEK OF SAPPHO ; 'Peer of the gods is that man, who';ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE (1837-1909) : FROM THE FRENCH OF FRANCOIS VILLON ; The Ballad of Villon and Fat Madge / The Complaint of the Fair Armouress / The Dispute of the Heart and Body of Francois Villon -- GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844-1889) : FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book I, 38 / Odes, Book III, 1 -- ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN (1859-1936) : FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book IV, 7 -- POEMS FROM THE AMERICAN INDIAN -- DANIEL G. BRINTON (1837-1899) : FROM THE DELAWARE ; from Walam Olum or Red Score -- WASHINGTON MATTHEWS (1843-1905) : FROM THE NAVAJO ; Magpie Song / Song to Promote Growth / The Song of Bekotsidi -- FRANCES DENSMORE (1867-1957) : FROM THE CHIPPEWA ; Song / The Sky Clears / Spring Song / The Noise of the Village / Song of the Thunders / Song of the Trees / The Approach of the Storm / A Loon I Thought It Was -- FROM THE PAPAGO ; Healing Song -- FROM THE PAWNEE ; Dream Song -- FROM THE ACOMAN ; Butterfly Song -- FROM THE YUMAN ; 'The water bug...' -- FRANK RUSSELL (1868-1903) : FROM THE PIMAN ; Song of the Fallen Deer / Foot Race Song;ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744) : FROM THE GREEK OF HOMER ; The Iliad -- 'The Greeks like the Sea, the Trojans like Flocks' / 'The Greeks and the'embattel'd Clouds' / 'Like Leaves on Trees...' / 'Paris and the wanton Courser' / 'The Watch and the Dogs' / 'Stones and Snow' / 'Hector and the Stone' / 'Ajax and his Brother' / 'The Wasps' / 'Hector flees before Achilles' / 'Paris and Menelaus' / 'The old Trojan Chiefs see Helen' / 'Night Piece: the Trojans outside Troy' / 'The Destruction of the Grecian Fort' / 'The Speech of Sarpedon' / 'Hector, recovered, renews the Attack' / 'Vulcan forges the Shield of Achilles' / 'River Scamander attacks Achilles' -- The Odyssey ; 'Jupiter sends Hermes to Calypso' / 'Ulysses builds his Raft' / 'The Wrecking of the Raft' / 'Ulysses in the Sea' / 'Ulysses finds Shelter' / 'The Garden of Alcinous' / 'In the Cave of Polyphemus' / 'Elpenor' / 'Penelope fetches Ulysses' Bow' / 'Ulysses (disgUised) takes up the Bow' / 'The Punishment of the Women and of Melanthius' / 'The Descent of the Suitors' Shades';WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMMON (?1633-1685) : FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book I, 22 -- THOMAS FLATMAN (1635-1688) : FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Epodes, III -- PHILIP AYRES (1638-1712) : FROM THE GREEK OF THEOCRITUS ; The Death of Adonis -- FROM THE SPANISH OF QUEVEDO ; The Fly -- ANTHONY HORNECK (1641-1697) : FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book I, 5 -- JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER (1648-1680) : FROM THE LATIN OF SENECA ; The Latter End of the Chorus from Troas, Act II -- NAHUM TATE (1652-1715) : IMITATED FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, LV and LVIIIb -- JOHN OLDHAM (1653-1683) : IMITATED FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; from The Art of Poetry -- IMITATED FROM THE FRENCH OF BOILEAU ; from Satires, VIII -- THOMAS CREECH (1659-1700) : FROM THE GREEK OF THEOCRITUS ; from Idylls, II -- FROM THE LATIN OF LUCRETIUS ; De Rerum Natura -- 'The Elements Changeable' -- TOM BROWN (1663-1704) : FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, XCII -- FROM THE LATIN OF MARTIAL ; Epigrams, Book I, 32 -- GEORGE STEPNEY (1663-1707) : IMITATED FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book III, 7;GAVIN DOUGLAS (1474/5-1522) : FROM THE LATIN OF VIRGIL ; The Aeneid -- 'The Rubric' / 'Aeneas (with Achates) meets his Mother, Venus' / 'The Building of Carthage' / 'The Wooden Horse is brought into Troy' / 'Aeneas' Image of War' / 'The Sybil' / 'Dido's Suicide' / 'Charon' / 'Turnus summons his Allies' / 'Turnus and the Courser' / 'The Defeat of Turnus' -- WILLIAM TYNDALE (?1494-1536) : FROM THE HEBREW ; The Bible -- Genesis 27: 27-9 / Numbers 6: 24-7 / Numbers 24: 5-9 / Exodus 15: 1-8 / Deuteronomy 32: 9-15 -- MILES COVERDALE (1488-1568) : FROM THE HEBREW ; The Bible -- Psalm 8 / Psalm 19 / Psalm 23 / Psalm 90 / Psalm 133 / Psalm 137 -- SIR THOMAS WYATT (?1503-1542) : FROM THE LATIN VULGATE AND OTHER SOURCES ; Penitential Psalms -- from Psalm 6 / from Psalm 102 / Psalm 130 -- FROM THE LATIN OF SENECA ; Chorus from Thyestes, Act II -- FROM THE ITALIAN OF PETRARCH ; Rime 49 / Rime 57 / Rime 134 / Rime 140 / Rime 189 / Rime 190 / Rime 269 -- FROM THE ITALIAN OF SERAFINO ; 'He is not ded that somtyme hath a fall' / 'What nedeth these thretning wordes and wasted wynde?' -- FROM THE ITALIAN OF BONIFACIO ; 'Madame, withouten many wordes, ' -- FROM THE ITALIAN OF ALAMANNI ; Satires, X;SAMUEL BECKETT (1906- ) : FROM THE SPANISH OF RAMON LOPEZ VELARDE ; My Cousin Agueda / The Malefic Return -- FROM THE FRENCH OF PAUL ELUARD ; Lady Love -- EDWARD MERYON WILSON (1906- ) : FROM THE SPANISH OF LUIS DE GONGORA ; The First Solitude -- 'The Young Pilgrim finds Refuge with the Goatherds' / 'The River compared to an Oratorical Sentence' / 'The Wedding Feast' -- WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN (1907-1973) (with Paul B. Taylor) : FROM THE ICELANDIC ; from The Words of the All-Wise -- ROBERT GARIOCH (1908- ) : FROM THE ITALIAN OF GIUSEPPE BELLI ; Campidoglio / Judgment Day / Sanct Christopher II -- A. L. LLOYD (1908- ) : FROM THE SPANISH OF FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA ; from Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias -- JAMES VINCENT CUNNINGHAM (1911- ) : FROM THE GREEK OF SKYTHINOS ; 'And now you're ready...' -- FROM THE LATIN OF MARTIAL ; Epigrams, Book II, 5 -- FROM THE LATIN OF THE EMPEROR HADRIAN ; 'My little soul, my vagrant charmer' -- FROM THE LATIN OF JANUS VITALIS PANORMITANUS ; Rome -- FROM THE LATIN OF GEORGE BUCHANAN ; 'The Pope from penance purgatorial' / 'Neaera when I'm there is adamant, ';THE YOUNG GENTLEMEN OF MR RULE'S ACADEMY (published 1766) : FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE ; Odes, Book I, 25 -- WILLIAM GIFFORD (1756-1826) : FROM THE LATIN OF JUVENAL ; from Satires, IV / from Satires, X -- WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES (1762-1850) : FROM THE GREEK OF SIMONIDES ; Thermopylae -- JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE (1769-1846) : FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, IV / Carmina, X -- FROM THE FRENCH OF JEAN DE LA FONTAINE ; 'Aesop's Fable of the Frogs' -- WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850) : FROM THE LATIN OF CATULLUS ; Carmina, V -- FROM THE ITALIAN OF MICHELANGELO ; 'Yes! hope may with my strong desire keep pace, ' -- FROM THE LATIN OF THOMAS WARTON THE YOUNGER ; 'Come, gentle Sleep, Death's image though thou art, ' -- SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771-1832) : FROM THE GERMAN OF GOETHE ; The Erl-King -- SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834) : FROM THE GERMAN (ANONYMOUS) ; Westphalian Song -- FROM THE GERMAN OF SCHILLER ; The Visit of the Gods