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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ILIAD: BOOK 3. THE ADVANCE OF THE TROJANS, by HOMER Poet's Biography
First Line: Now marshall'd all beneath their several chiefs
Last Line: Uprose the dust, for swift they cross the plain.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War
First Line: Now marshall'd all beneath their several chiefs
Last Line: Uprose the dust, for swift they cross the plain.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War
NOW marshall'd all beneath their several chiefs,
With deafening shouts, and with the clang of arms,
The host of Troy advanced. Such clang is heard
Along the skies, when from incessant showers
Escaping, and from winter's cold, the cranes
Take wing, and over Ocean speed away;
Woe to the land of dwarfs! prepared, they fly
For slaughter of the small Pygmaean race.
Not so the Greeks; they breathing valour came,
But silent all, and all with faithful hearts
On succour mutual to the last, resolved.
As when the south wind wraps the mountain top
In mist, the sheperd's dread, but to the thief
Than night itself more welcome, and the eye
Is bounded in its ken to a stone's cast,
Such from beneath their footsteps dun and dense
Uprose the dust, for swift they cross the plain.
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