 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
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1922 - 1032 pages
...laws of time and space decay. But O, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die. 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 sty. NATHANIEL... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1922 - 1162 pages
...given him over, From death to life thou might'st him yet recover. HERACLITUS BY WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY 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... | |
 | Shane Leslie - 1922 - 392 pages
...like this book, lonica. Do you know William Johnson's translation of the Greek ? I will read it to " They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead,...bitter 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 nent him down the sky. And now... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen - 1922 - 880 pages
...made an upward movement with both hands, and went on : "And a little piece called ' Heraclitus'— " 'I wept as I remembered how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.' You'll like that." " I'm sure I'll love them all," said Evelyn. "Especially 'Love in a Wood' — "... | |
 | Robert Frothingham - 1922 - 212 pages
...once more my threadbare dress And the sound of his feet returning. Florence Wilkinson Evans HERACLITUS They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter I wept as I remember'd how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.... | |
 | Larue Van Hook - 1923 - 388 pages
...those skies with myriad eyes, That I might gaze on thee. — LILLA C. PERRY. CALLIMACHUS To Heraclitus They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead;...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... | |
 | 1923 - 662 pages
...camp with "Nell" on English meadows Wandered and lost their way. And then William Cory's Heraclitus : They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead....Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the F.ky. And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of gray ashes, long, long ago... | |
 | Richard Winn Livingstone - 1924 - 474 pages
...child away ? Why make me pay so soon the debt which all alike must pay ? * Two Epitaphs on Friends THEY told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead...tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. 1 Crinagoras (first cenrury BC), tr. JW Burgon. • Anon., tr. WM Hardinge. 1 Anon., tr. GB Grundy.... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1924 - 774 pages
...I clasp them, is because they die. WJ CoRY. 374 HERACLITUS They toldme , Heraclitus ,theytoldmeyou were dead, They brought me bitter news to hear and...tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. 4 Andnowthatthouartlying,mydearoldCarianguest, A handful of grey ashes, long long ago at rest, Still... | |
 | Michael J. Bartos - 1977 - 538 pages
...country scenes and influences, a natural farmer and country lover, enriched by the best reading: ' They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead...tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.' With the cessation of the forty years' correspondence between John Burroughs and Myron Benton, the... | |
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