...that his dear friend, the poet Heraclitus — not to be confounded with the philosopher — was dead. They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead...brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. 1 wept, as I remembered, how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky....

...beautiful in our language ; but who does not know those lines beginning : They told me, Heracleitus, they told me you were dead ; They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed . . . ? Tom Moore's paraphrase of the lines on Anacreon by Antipater of Sidon is full of poetry. But...

...flows With our tears for Anteros. 288. Hcraclitus ' I 'HEY told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were 1 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. And now that...

...wistful pathos of the loss and lonesomeness which are a part of human destiny: They told me, Heracleitus, they told me you were dead, They brought me bitter...tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. Then one day I found myself in a great wood, gloomed by splendid firs, yet gold-shot by shafts of sun...

...other verse put together. The name of William Cory remains famous for his lovely ' Heraclitus '. ' They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead,...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. And now that...

...that his dear friend, the poet Heraclitus — not to be confounded with the philosopher — was dead. They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead...news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept, as 1 remembered, how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. S And now...

...on June 8, 1913. The Times of June 10 contained the following appreciation over the initial " C." :] They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead...tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. IT was with a sense of almost stunning bewilderment that the friends who had lately seen George Wyndham...

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...they told me you were dead; They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept when I remembered how often you and I Had tired the sun...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...

...palate. And there will remain the compensation of which Callimachus sings in his peerless lament — " They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead...bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept when I remembered how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. And...