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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ACHILLEID: THETIS HIDES ACHILLES, by PUBLIUS PAPINIUS STATIUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This land, where quarrels no disturbance wrought
Last Line: So thetis to another shape convey'd her son
Alternate Author Name(s): Statius
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical


ACHILLES, by PHILLIP CORWIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Did she mean that much to him that he was
Last Line: Chosen to begin his tale, at which crux, %and then think how immortal anger is
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical


ACHILLES' SONG, by ROBERT DUNCAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I do not know more than the sea tells me
Subject(s): Achilles


BEFORE A STATUE OF ACHILLES, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold pelides with his yellow hair
Last Line: The perfect body is itself the soul.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Statues


DINNER BY THE AEGEAN, by BOB COOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Achilles with one leg and monk's attire
Last Line: I can see cities and wooden horses burning %in her voluptuous shadow
Subject(s): Achilles; Aegean Sea; Dinners And Dining; Mythology - Classical


GOODNIGHT, ACHILLES, by ENRIQUE LIHN    Poem Source                    
First Line: So, we got you in the heel
Last Line: Goodnight, achilles
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical


ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Full of hate %patroculus rushed against the trojans. Thrice
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now as he was pondering this in his heart and his spirit
Last Line: Nesaie and speio and thoe, and ox-eyed halia
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: ACHILLES SETS OUT, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now I shall ask you to imagine how
Last Line: Someone has left a spear in the sand
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: ACHILLES SHOWS HIMSELF IN THE BATTLE BY THE SHIPS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All this (said he) we know
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical


ILIAD: ACHILLES TO LYCAON, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus spoke priam's shining son with words supplicating
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; War


ILIAD: ACHILLES TO THE DYING LYKAON, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Float with the fish, they'll clean your wounds, and lick
Last Line: Killed by the wooden ships while I was gone
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: ACHILLES' SHIELD (PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF BOOK 8 IN 1598), by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright-footed thetis did the sphere aspire
Last Line: With vulcan's armes wrought for eternall day
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Shields; Trojan War


ILIAD: ACHILLES' WRATH, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At her departure his disdain return'd
Last Line: No gift shall bribe it, and no pray'r persuade
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: ANDROMACHE'S LAMENTATION, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O my lost husband! Let me ever mourn
Last Line: Which night and day, I wou'd with tears repeat
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BATTLE, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As when 'gainst murmuring shores a western breese
Last Line: So in the medley, clamour shewd, and flight
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 1, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing, goddess, the anger of peleus' son achilleus
Last Line: Going up to the bed he slept and hera of the gold throne beside him
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 1, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And when they came together in one place
Last Line: Such the drear roar of battle when they mixt
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 1, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Apollo's priest to th' argive fleete doth bring
Last Line: By him the golden-thron'd queene slept, the queene of deities
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 1 (TRANSLATION OF 1598), by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Apollo's priest to th' agrive fleete doth bring
Last Line: Fair juno with the golden throne: and there their quarrel end
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 1, SELS., by HOMER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 1, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing, goddess, the wrath of achilles peleus' son
Last Line: And beside him was hera of the golden throne
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 1. THE RAGE OF ACHILLES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rage-goddess, sing the rage of peleus' son achilles
Last Line: Lay hera the queen, the goddess of the golden throne
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 10, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Th' atrides watching, wake the other peeres
Last Line: They offerd to the maiden queene that hath the azure eyne
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 10, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus kept the trojans watch; but the achaians were holden of heaven-sent panic
Last Line: And there laid them to rest and took the boon of sleep
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 10. MARAUDING AT NIGHT, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So by the ships the other lords of achaea's armies
Last Line: Honeyed, mellow wine to the great goddess athena
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 11, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Atrides and his other peeres of name
Last Line: Were well, and, instantly allaid, the wound did bleed no more
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 11. AGAMEMNON'S DAY OF GLORY, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now dawn rose up from bed by her lordly mate tithonus
Last Line: And the wound dried and the flowing blood stopped
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 12, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The troyans at the trench their powres engage
Last Line: Askt all their rescue. Greece went downe: tumult was at his height
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 12, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus they thoroughout the city, scared like fawns, were cooling their sweat
Last Line: Thus spake she wailing, and the women joined their moan
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 12. SARPEDON'S SPEECH, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As ye see, a mountaine lion fare
Last Line: Glory to others, or make them resign the like to us
Variant Title(s): Sarpedon Encourages Glaucu
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 12. SARPEDON'S SPEECH TO GLAUCUS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus to glaucus spake
Last Line: A common sacrifice to honour fall
Variant Title(s): Sarpedon Encourages Glaucu
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 12. SARPEDON'S SPEECH TO GLAUCUS IN THE 12TH OF HOMER, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whence it is, glaucus, that in lycian land
Last Line: Attend, which none may escape, then on, that we %may glory on others gain, or they on us
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 12. THE TROJANS STORM THE RAMPART, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And so under shelter now menoetius' fighting son
Last Line: Back by the hollow hulls, the uproar rising, no way out, no end --
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 13, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Neptune (in pittie of the greeks' hard plight)
Last Line: They reacht the splendors stucke about the unreacht throne of jove
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 13. BATTLING FOR THE SHIPS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But once zeus had driven hector and hector's trojans
Last Line: Struck the high clear skies, the lightning world of zeus
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 14, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Atrides, to behold the skirmish, brings
Last Line: Not one with swiftnesse of his feete could so enrich a chace
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 14. HERA OUTFLANKS ZEUS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But the mounting cries of war could not escape old nestor
Last Line: Once zeus whipped enemy ranks in blinding, panic rout
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 14. HERA PLANS A SEDUCTION, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Standing on high olympus' topmost peak
Last Line: By sleep and loved subdued, th' immortal sire %clasp'd in h is arms his wife, repos'd in peace
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 15, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jove waking, and behold troy in flight
Last Line: Of which twelve men, his most resolv'd, lay dead before his sterne
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 15. THE ACHAEAN ARMIES AT BAY, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Back through jutting stakes and across the trench they fled
Last Line: Twelve he impaled point-blank, struggling up the hulls
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 16, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Achilles, at patroclus' suite, doth yeeld
Last Line: They gift to peleus from the gods, soone rap't him from his reach
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 16, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Meanwhile patroclus stood beside his friend
Last Line: May easily drive back upon their town %the weary trojans from our tents and fleet
Subject(s): Achilles; Death; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 16. PATROCLEIA, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hornets occasionally build their nests near roads
Last Line: Hector withdrew his spear and said 'perhaps'
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 16. PATROCLUS FIGHTS AND DIES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So they fought to the death around that benched beaked ship
Last Line: Gifts of the gods to peleus, shining immortal gifts
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 17, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A dreadfull fight about patroclus' corse
Last Line: About and in the dike. Annd yet, the warre concludes not here
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 17. MENELAUS' FINEST HOUR, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But atreus' son the fighting menelaus marked it all
Last Line: As the argives fled in fear, no halt in the fighting, not now --
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 18, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Achilles mournes, told of patroclus' end
Last Line: Stoopt from the steepe olympian hill, hid in eternall snow
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 18, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And there illustrious vulcan also wrought %a dance
Last Line: Two tumblers raised their song, and flung themselves %about among the band that trod the dance
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 18, SELS., by HOMER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 18. AJAX PRAYS FOR LIGHT, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O heaven! The veriest child might plainly see
Last Line: The clouds he scatter'd, and the mist dispers'd %the sun sh one forth, and all the field was clear
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 18. THE ARMING OF ACHELLEUS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So these fought on in the likeness of blazing fire. Meanwhile
Last Line: And carried with her the shining armour, the gift of hephaistos
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 18. THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So the men fought on like a mass of whirling fire
Last Line: Bearing the brilliant gear, the god of fire's gift
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Shields; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 19, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thetis, presenting armour to her sonne
Last Line: Gave dreadfull signall, and frothright made flie his one-hov'd steeds
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 19. ACHELLEUS RETURNS TO BATTLE, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now dawn the yellow-robed arose from the river of ocean
Last Line: He spoke, and shouting held on in the foremost his single-foot horses
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 19. BREISEIS' GRIEF FOR PATROCLUS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Briseis, fair as golden venus, saw %patroclus lying, pierced with mortal wound
Last Line: Patroclus' death the pretext of their tears %but each in secret wept her private griefs
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 19. THE CHAMPION ARMS FOR BATTLE, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As dawn rose up in her golden robe from ocean's tides
Last Line: And out in front ranks he drove his plunging stallions
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 2, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nor lingered paris in the lofty house
Last Line: Of ilion, paris, sunlike all in arms %glittering
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 2, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jove cals a vision up from somnus' den
Last Line: From lycia and the gulfie flood of xanthus farre remov'd
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 2 (TRANSLATION OF 1598), by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jove cals a vision up from somnus' den
Last Line: The princes, therefore, of the fleete, and fleet it selfe, I cite
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 2. HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hector would always call the boy scamandrius
Last Line: Andromache pressed the child to her scented breast, %smiling through her tears
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 2. THE GREAT GATHERING OF THE ARMIES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the great array of gods and chariot-driving men
Last Line: From lycia far south, from the xanthus' swirling rapids
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 20, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By jove's permission, all the gods descend
Last Line: His most inaccessible hands in humane blood he died
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 20. OLYMPIAN GODS IN ARMS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So by the beaked ships the argives formed for battle
Last Line: Splattering both strong arms, achilles' invincible arms --
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 21, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In two parts troy's host parted; thetis' sonne
Last Line: Most fortunate. Who ever scapt, his head might thanke his feete
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 21. ACHILLES FIGHTS THE RIVER, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But once they reached the ford where the river runs clear
Last Line: Any fighter whose racing legs could save his life
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 21. AJAX DRIVES THE TROJANS TO XANTHUS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But when now they came unto the ford of the fair-flowing river ... Xanthus
Last Line: Their groaning went up ghastly as they were stricken bu the sword, and the water reddened with blood
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 22, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All troyans housd but hector, onely he
Last Line: Her desetr state (fearing their owne), wept with her teare for teare
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 22. ATHENA TRICKS HECTOR, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No longer I avoid thee of late %o son of peleus
Last Line: The evils thou hast done my countrymen %my friends whom tho u hast slaughtered in thy rage
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 22. HECTOR ADDRESSES THE INEVITABLE, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus as he spoke, his sharp-edged sword he drew
Last Line: Thus would they say, then stab the dead anew
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 22. NEWS OF HECTOR'S DEATH, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So she spoke in tears but the wife of hektor had not yet %heard
Last Line: So she spoke, in tears, and the women joined in her mourning
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 22. THE DEATH OF HECTOR, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So all through troy the men who had fled like panicked fawns
Last Line: Her voice rang out in tears and the women wailed in answer
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 22. THE DEATH OF HECTOR, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So all through troy the men who had fled like panicked fawns
Last Line: Her voice rang out in tears and the women wailed in answer
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 22. THE DEATH OF HEKTOR, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So along the city the trojans, who had run like fawns, dried
Last Line: So she spoke, in tears; and the women joined in her mourning
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 23, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Achilles orders justs of exequies
Last Line: But to renowm'd talthybius the goodly caldron gave
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 23. FUNERAL GAMES FOR PATROCLUS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So they grieved at troy while achaea's troops pulled back
Last Line: To his herald talthybius -- the king's burnished trophy
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 24, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jove, entertaining care of hector's corse
Last Line: And so horse-taming hector's rites gave up his soule to rest
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 24, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then the assembly was broken up, and the tribes were scattered
Last Line: Thus held they funeral for hector tamer of horses
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 24. ACHILLES AND PRIAM, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The games were over now. The gathered armies scattered
Last Line: And so the trojans buried hector breaker of horses
Subject(s): Achilles; Funerals; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 24. ACHILLEUS AND PRIAM, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And the games broke up, and the people scattered to go away, each man
Last Line: Such was their burial of hektor, breaker of horses
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 24. PRIAM APPEALS TO ACHILLES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then thou, achilles, reverence the gods
Last Line: And grinding misery o'er the earth pursue: %by god and man alike despised he roams
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 24. PRIAM APPEALS TO ACHILLES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great priam came
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 24. PRIAM OBTAINS HECTOR'S BODY, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Urge not, divine achilles, me to sit %while hector lies unburied in the camp
Last Line: Lifting it from the ground, and his two friends %together h eaved it to the royal wain
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 3, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Paris (betwixt the hoasts) to single fight
Last Line: Our acts here may be memorisd. This all greeks else thought fit
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 3. HELEN REVIEWS THE CHAMPIONS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now with the squadrons marshaled, captains leading each
Last Line: So atrides demanded. His armies roared assent
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 3. THE BEAUTY OF HELEN, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And then came iris as a messenger %to helen of the white arms
Last Line: For like in wondrous wise is she %to the immortal goddesses %in loveliness of countenance
Subject(s): Achilles; Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 4, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gods in counsell at the last decree
Last Line: He could not comprehend the fight, so many strew'd the ground
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 4. THE TRUCE ERUPTS IN WAR, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now aloft by the side of zeus the gods sat in council
Last Line: Sprawled there side-by-side, facedown in the dust
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 5, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: King diomed (by pallas' spirit inspir'd
Last Line: Juno and pallas reascend the starrie court of jove
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 5, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now when the goddessm white-armed helen
Last Line: Eager to make defense for argive men
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 5. DIOMEDES FIGHTS THE GODS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then pallas athena granted tydeus' son diomedes
Last Line: Had stopped the murderous ares' cutting men to pieces
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 6, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gods now leaving an indifferent field
Last Line: Wisht peace, and us free sacrifice to all the powers of heaven
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 6, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So was the dead fray of trojans and achaians left to itself
Last Line: When we have chased out of troy-land the well-greaved achaians
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 6. HECTOR RETURNS TO TROY, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So the clash of achaean and trojan troops was on its own
Last Line: Once we drive these argives geared for battle out of troy
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 6. THE MEETING OF HEKTOR AND ANDROMACHE, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now as hektor had come to the skaian gates and the oak tree
Last Line: After we have driven out of troy the strong-greaved achaians
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 7, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hector, by helenus' advice, doth seeke
Last Line: And sodaine sleepe's refreshing gift securely they receiv'd
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 7, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun went down, and the work of the achaians was accomplished
Last Line: Then laid they them to rest and took the boon of sleep
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 7. AJAX DUELS WITH HECTOR, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Vaunting, aflash in arms, hector swept through the gates
Last Line: Then down they lay at last and took the gift of sleep
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 8, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When jove to all the gods had given command
Last Line: And all did wishfully expect the silver-throned morne
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 8. THE EVE OF BATTLE (LINES 553-565), by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So with hearts made high these sat night-long by the outworks
Last Line: And oats, the horses waited for the dawn to mount her high place
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 8. THE TIDE OF BATTLE TURNS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now as the dawn flung out her golden robe across the earth
Last Line: Stallions waited for dawn to mount her glowing throne
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 9, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To agamemnon (urging hopelesse flight)
Last Line: Where all receiv'd the soveraigne gifts soft somnus did present
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 9, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Most valiant and noble odysseus, seeing atrides
Last Line: Home - that is, if you wish it. There's no compulsion about it
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 9. THE EMBASSY TO ACHILLES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So the trojans held their watch that night but not the achaeans
Last Line: There they spent the night and took the gift of sleep
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK 9. THE EMBASSY TO ACHILLEUS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So the trojans held their night watches. Meanwhile immortal
Last Line: Where they went to their beds and took the blessing of slumber
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: BOOK VI, 146, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Frail as the leaves that quiver on the sprays
Last Line: Like them man flourishes, like them decays
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: CLASH OF ARMS OF THE ACHAIANS AND TROJAN, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not the sea-wave so bellows abroad when it bursts upon shingle
Last Line: Dread upshouting as one when together they clashed in conflict
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: HECTOR IGNORES APPEALS TO FLEE TROY, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus, weeping bitterly, the aged pair %entreated their dear son
Last Line: To combat, and the sooner learn to whom %olympian jove decrees the victory
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; Troy


ILIAD: HECTOR'S CHILD AND THE PLUME, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This said, he reacht to take his sonne, who (of his armes afraid
Last Line: Let his renowne be cleare as mine, equall his strength in warre
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: HECTOR'S FLIGHT, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now close at hand
Last Line: As all the gods looked on
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: HEKTOR TO ANDROMACHE, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All these things are in my mind also, lady; but I fear still
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; War


ILIAD: HELEN'S LAMENTATION, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O hector, thou wert rooted in my heart
Last Line: And with a general sigh her grief approv'd
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: JOVE'S COLD-SHARPE JAVELINES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And as in winter time when jove his cold-sharpe
Last Line: To shew their sharpnesse
Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: MEN LIKE LEAVES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why dost thou so explore
Last Line: Man's leavie issue
Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: MENELAUS WOUNDED, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thee, menelaus, then the blessed gods
Last Line: Thy legs, thy feet, stained with thy trickling blood
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: PARIS AND MENELAUS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But ere sterne conflict mixt both strengths, faire paris stept
Last Line: Shrunke in his beauties
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: PARIS AND THE COURSER, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And now was paris come
Last Line: Of loftie pergamus came forth
Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: PATROCLUS SPEARS THESTOR, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The son of enops, thestor next he smote
Last Line: Prone on his face, where gasping he expir'd
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: PATROCLUS'S REQUEST TO ACHILLES FOR HIS ARMS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When, gently, raising up his drooping head
Last Line: Deceiv'd, they shall retreat, and think 'tis you
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: SARPEDON TO GLAUKOS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Glaukos, why is it you and I are honored beyond all men
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; War


ILIAD: SIMILES: AS WHEN AN ARCHITECT, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As when an architect some palace wall
Last Line: So wedg'd the helmets and boss'd bucklers stood
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: SIMILES: THE GREEKS LIKE FIRE, BIRDS, FLIES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As when devouring flames some forest seize
Last Line: Bright-arm'd, high-crested, and athirst for war
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: SIMILES: THE TWO AJAXES LIKE OXEN, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ajaz the swift swerv'd never from the side
Last Line: So, side by side, they, persevering fought
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: THE GREEKS LIKE BEES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As when of frequent bees
Last Line: Troopt to these princes and the court along th'unmeasur'd shore
Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: THE GREEKS LIKE CLOUDS, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Their ground they stil mde good
Last Line: So firmely stood the greeks, nor fled for all the ilians' ayd
Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: THE GREEKS LIKE THE SEA, THE TROJANS LIKE EWES, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And as when the west-wind's flawes the sea thrusts
Last Line: But shew'd mixt tongs from many a land of men cald to their aid
Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: THE KILLING OF LYKAON, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing for me, muse, the mania of achilles
Last Line: Killed by the running ships when I was gone
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: THE OLD TROJAN CHIEFS SEE HELEN, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All grave old men, and souldiers they had bene, but for age
Last Line: Must passe the beautie
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: THE SACRIFICE TO APOLLO, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now when the solemn rites of pray'r were past
Last Line: And snore secure on decks, till rosy morn
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


ILIAD: THE TROJANS OUTSIDE TROY, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Big with great purposes and proud, they sat
Last Line: Aurora should restore the light of day
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; Troy


ILIAD: THE TWO AJAXES COMPARED TO OXEN, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oileus by his brother's side stood close and would not
Last Line: So toughly stood these to their taske and made their worke %as even
Subject(s): Achilles; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


INVOCATION TO THE SPIRIT OF ACHILLES, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful shadow / of thetis's boy!
Last Line: His stand in creation!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical


METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 12, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Priam, to whom the story was unknown
Last Line: And to the grecian chiefs transferr'd the cause.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting


NEMEAN ODES: 3. THE CHILDHOOD OF ACHILLES, by PINDAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But golden-haired achilles, biding still
Last Line: Return alive to his own natal shore.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical


PROLOGUE TO THE ILIAD, SELS., by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Still raged the anger in achilles' heart
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


QUATRAIN ON ACHILLES, by CATHERINE DES ROCHES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Achilles chose a meaner task when he
Last Line: The other slits the corde.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Swords


SHIELD OF ACHILLES, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She looked over his shoulder
Last Line: Who would not live long
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Shields


THE ILIAD: ACHILLES OVER THE TRENCH, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So saying, light-footed iris pass'd away
Last Line: To war, but never welcomed his return.
Variant Title(s): Achilles On The Rampart;achilles Defies The Trojans
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 1, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wrath of peleus' son that evil wrath
Last Line: And golden-throned here by his side.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 1, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wrath of peleus son, o muse, resound
Last Line: And juno lay unheeded by his side.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 1. THE CONTENTION OF ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Achilles' wrath, to greece the direful spring
Last Line: And juno slumber'd on the golden bed.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 10. THE NIGHT ADVENTURE OF DIOMED AND ULYSSES, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All night the chiefs before their vessels lay
Last Line: And the crown'd goblet foams with floods of wine.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; Ulysses; Odysseus


THE ILIAD: BOOK 11. THE RESISTANCE OF AJAX, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But the eternal father throned on high / with fear fill'd ajax
Last Line: Their disappointed fury in the ground.
Variant Title(s): Ajax In The Fight
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 11. THE THIRD BATTLE, AND THE ACTS OF AGAMEMNON, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The saffron morn, with early blushes spread
Last Line: The wound to torture and the blood to flow.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 12. SARPEDON'S SPEECH, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As ye see, a mountaine lion fare
Variant Title(s): Sarpedon Encourages Glaucus
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 12. THE BATTLE AT THE GRECIAN WALL, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While thus the hero's pious cares attend
Last Line: The shore is heap'd with dead, and tumult rends the sky.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 13. THE FOURTH BATTLE, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When now the thunderer on the sea-beat coast
Last Line: Shook the fix'd splendours of the throne of jove.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 14. JUNO DECEIVES JUPITER BY THE GIRDLE OF VENUS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But not the genial feast, nor flowing bowl
Last Line: Skill'd in pursuit, and swiftest in the chase.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 15. THE FIFTH BATTLE, AT THE SHIPS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now in swift flight they pass the trench profound
Last Line: Sent by great ajax to the shades of hell.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 16. ACHILLES LENDS PATROCLUS HIS ARMOR, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Achilles then within his tent withdrew
Last Line: He granted; but denied his safe return.
Variant Title(s): Achilles' Prayer
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 16. THE SIXTH BATTLE, & THE ACTS & DEATH OF PATROCLUS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So warr'd both armies on th' ensanguined shore
Last Line: Th' immortal coursers were the gift of jove.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 17. THE SEVENTH BATTLE, FOR THE BODY OF PATROCLUS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the cold earth divine patroclus spread
Last Line: The work of death, and still the battle bleeds.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 18. THE GRIEF OF ACHILLES, & NEW ARMOUR MADE BY VULCAN, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus, like the raging of the fire, the combat burns
Last Line: And bears the blazing present through the skies.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 19. THE RECONCILIATION OF ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soon as aurora heaved her orient head
Last Line: "now perish troy!"" -- he said, and rush'd to fight."
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 1; SELECTION IN HEXAMETERS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing, o daughter of heaven, of peleus' son, of achilles
Last Line: "grant that of yon proud walls not one stone rest on another."
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 2, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So all else - gods, and charioted chiefs
Last Line: From lycia far, where whirls scamander's stream.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 2. THE TRIAL OF THE ARMY AND CATALOGUE OF THE FORCES, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now pleasing sleep had sealed each mortal eye
Last Line: Where gulfy xanthus foams along the fields.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 20. THE BATTLE OF THE GODS, AND THE ACTS OF ACHILLES, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus round pelides, breathing war and blood
Last Line: Such is the lust of never-dying fame!
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 21. THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER SCAMANDER, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And now to xanthus' gliding stream they drove
Last Line: And nations breathe, deliver'd from their fate.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 22. THE DEATH OF HECTOR, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus, to their bulwarks, smit with panic fear
Last Line: Sigh back her sighs, and answer tear with tear.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 23. FUNERAL GAMES IN HONOR OF PATROCLUS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus, humbled in the dust, the pensive train
Last Line: The glittering charger to talthybius' hands.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 24. THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now from the finish'd games in the grecian band
Last Line: And peaceful slept the mighty hector's shade.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 3. THE DUEL OF MENELAUS AND PARIS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus, by their leader's care, each martial band
Last Line: And long the shout rung echoing through the skies.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 4. THE BREACH OF THE TRUCE, AND THE FIRST BATTLE, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And now olympus' shining gates unfold
Last Line: And crowds on crowds triumphantly expired.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 5. THE ACTS OF DIOMED, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But pallas now tydides' soul inspires
Last Line: Their task perform'd, and mix among the gods.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 6. GLAUCCUS AND DIOMED & HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now heaven forsakes the fight, th' immortals yield
Last Line: "and greece indignant through her seas returns."
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 7. THE SINGLE COMBAT OF HOMER AND AJAX, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So spoke the guardian of the trojan state
Last Line: Enjoy'd the balmy blessings of the night.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 8, SELECTION, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As in the heights of heaven the moon gleams clear, and around her
Last Line: Roused them, their good steeds stood, white oats and barley before them.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 8. A PAUSE IN THE FIGHTING, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So hector spake; the trojans roared applause
Last Line: Fixt by their cars, waited the golden dawn.
Variant Title(s): Trojans Bivouac On The Plain;specimen Of A Translation Of The Iliad In Blank Verse;the Trojan Camp-fires
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 8. THE SECOND BATTLE, AND THE DISTRESS OF THE GREEKS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn
Last Line: And ardent warriors wait the rising morn.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: BOOK 9. THE EMBASSY TO ACHILLES, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus joyful troy maintain'd the watch of night
Last Line: The grateful blessings of desired repose.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: THE EPISODE OF SARPEDON (2), by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When now the chief his valiant friends beheld
Last Line: Where endless honours wait the sacred shade.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE ILIAD: THE HORSES OF ACHILLES, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So now the horses of aiakides, off wide of the war-ground
Last Line: Aught over earth's range found that is gifted with breath and has movement.'
Subject(s): Achilles; Animals; Horses; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War


THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She looked over his shoulder
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Shields


WHAT NAME, ACHILLES?, by VICTOR HOWES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Achilles with a girl's name? In a smock?
Last Line: Until the grecians dragged him off to troy
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical