Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ILIAD: BOOK 12. THE SNOW OF STONES, by HOMER Poet's Biography First Line: Thus shouting onward these twain roused the achaian battle Last Line: Amid the tumult rising along the wall's whole length. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War | ||||||||
THUS shouting onward these twain roused the Achaian battle . . . As on a winter's day the snowflakes thick and fast Whirl down, when Zeus the Counsellor in storm begins The revelation of these his arrows of the skies To mortal men; in the silence of sleep the winds Are stilled, and the unceasing fall of snow streams down Until the high mountain peaks, the outermost headlands Are hidden over, and the rich farmlands of men With the clovered fields; only the lapping wave shakes off This mantle strewn upon the harbours and the beaches Along the wide grey sea -- all else is shrouded over Lying beneath this heaviness of the storm of Zeus; So the stones hither and thither wing their crowded flight From Trojan and Achaian, hurling both, and smitten, Amid the tumult rising along the wall's whole length. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RETURN OF THE GREEKS by EDWIN MUIR THE FALL OF TROY by RACHEL HADAS MENELAUS AND HELEN by RUPERT BROOKE THE DEATH OF LEONIDAS by GEORGE CROLY THE ILIAD: ACHILLES OVER THE TRENCH by HOMER THE ILIAD: BOOK 12. SARPEDON'S SPEECH by HOMER BALLAD OF HECTOR IN HADES by EDWIN MUIR THE ILIAD: ACHILLES OVER THE TRENCH by HOMER |
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