The powers who hold by might the sway. Thou hast withstood authority, A self-willed rebel, thou mu...
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And will not slacken in the gale, is like To sail with thwarts reversed, keel uppermost. Relent th...
ISMENE O sister, scorn me not, let me but share Thy work of piety, and with thee die. ANTIGONE C...
Of giving burial. But where's the King? CHORUS There from the palace he returns in time. [Enter C...
His father's city and his father's gods, And glut his vengeance with his kinsmen's blood, Or drag ...
With obsequies that use and wont ordain, So gracing him among the dead below. But Polyneices, a di...
Thou hadst thy wish 'mid strangers thus to die, But I, ah me, not by. ISMENE Alas, my sister, wha...
So to be handed down from heir to heir. Thus shalt thou hold this land inviolate From the dread Dr...
Degenerate sons--these maidens did not so. Therefore my curse is stronger than thy "throne," Thy "...
Will stay my purpose to restore the maids. OEDIPUS Heaven bless thee, Theseus, for thy nobleness ...
O woe is me! CHORUS Thou art a bold man, stranger, if thou think'st To execute thy purpose. CREO...
Thebes thy old foster-mother claims thee first. OEDIPUS O front of brass, thy subtle tongue would ...
THESEUS Wouldst tell the old misfortune of thy race? OEDIPUS No, that has grown a byword througho...
To grant the suppliant their saving grace. So pray thyself or whoso pray for thee, In whispered ac...
Are framed and modeled on Egyptian ways. For there the men sit at the loom indoors While the wives...