 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 remember'd how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky...  Recitations at Whitnash rectory - Page 11by Whitnash rectory - 1866 - 15 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Clodd - 1900 - 248 pages
...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;...hear, and bitter tears to shed; I wept as I remembered hour often you and I Had tired the sun with talking, and sent him down the sky. And now that thou art... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1901 - 1190 pages
...time and space decay. But O, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die. 7f9. Heraclitus 'THEY told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead....news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept as I rememberM how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. And now that... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 468 pages
...And pass with coldness the self-offering dame. EPITAPH ON HBBACLEITTJS. THEY told me, Heracleitus, they told me you were dead; They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears I shed. I wept, as I remembered how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1902 - 874 pages
...cite is by Callimachus, supremely translated by the late Mr. Cory : — They told me, Heracleitus, they told me you were dead ; They brought me bitter...sun with talking and sent him down the sky. And now thnt thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey asliee, long, long ago at rest, Still... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1902 - 598 pages
...Keith of Ravelston, The sorrows of thy line ! W. CORY (formerly JOHNSON). 1823-1892 FROM "CALLIMACHUS" They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead...and I Had tired the sun with talking, and sent him clown the sky. And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long,... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1902 - 442 pages
...'HpuKAeiTe, reov liopov, e's St /u SdKpv •Sjyaytv, i/iVI^crOrlV S' ocrcraKK 1 "They told me, Heracleitus, they told me you were dead ; They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. •!j\iov tv \tcr\y KareSwra/ieV dAAa crv /i.ev irOV, Callimachus £ilv 'AAiKapvi/crtv, reTpa.ira\ai... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, George Henry Warner - 1902 - 656 pages
...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 teart 1 shed. I wept, as I remembered how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him... | |
 | 1903 - 648 pages
...the poet Heracleitus, had died and been cremated. EPITAPH ON 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,... | |
 | 1904 - 776 pages
...smoking Bouillabaisse! WILLIAM MACKEPEACE THACKERAY. THE DEAD POET-FRIEND. 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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