...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...

...to be confounded with the philosopher — was dead. They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you mere dead ; They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter...tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, handful of grey ashes, long long ago at rest, Still...

...imitation of the elegiacs of Callimachus on his friend Heracleitus : — " They told me, Heracleitus, they told me you were dead, — They brought me bitter...art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of gray ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake, For Death...

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...bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept, as I remember'd how often you and I Had tir'd the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. And now that thon art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of gray ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are...

...: 'Twas all unlike your great and gracious ways. WILLIAM (JOHNSON) CORY [1823-1892] 686 HERACLITUS THEY told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead,...news t'o 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. And now that...

...desire for fame, had also gone. " Aye," he muttered : " They told me, Heraclitus, they told me thou wert dead ; They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed." Etienne Lambert disappeared from his old haunts, carrying with him nothing save a poor crushed and...

...game, And pass with coldness the self-offering dame. EPITAPH ON HERACLEITUS THEY told me, Heracleitus, they told me you were dead; They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears shed. I wept, as I remembered how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down...

...friend Heraclitos, also a poet, is justly one of the most famous : — " They, told me, Heraclitos, they told me you were dead ; They brought me bitter...him down the sky. And now that thou art lying, my clear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices,...

...wherein his death has made so large a gap— friends to whose lips there rises the lament of old : — ' They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead...my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, laid long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake ; For Death, he taketh...