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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
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.
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