THE PORTER AND THE THREE LADIES OF BAGHDAD ONCE upon a time there was a porter in Baghdad who was a...
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THE FISHERMAN AND THE JINNI IT hath reached me, O auspicious King, that there was a fisherman well...
answered, "This is not the time for storytelling and I in this prison, but set me free and I will t...
upon his flesh, and the tunic clung to his sides, at every joint, close-glued, as if by a craftsman...
And does Achilles' son Say this to me? NEOPTOLEMUS Why force me to repeat My words so often to t...
Who have destroyed me, e'en the sons of Atreus, E'en with Ulysses, source of all my woes? My suffe...
430 BC THE TRACHINIAE by Sophocles transalated by R. C. Jebb CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY DEIANEIRA ...
True; And 'tis against them too. PHILOCTETES Alas! no storms Can drive back fraud and rapine fro...
DEIANEIRA O Zeus, who rulest the meads of Oeta, sacred from the scythe, at last, though late, thou...
O death! where art thou, death? so often called, Wilt thou not listen? wilt thou never come? Take ...
Well, I will go; thy counsel is not amiss. MESSENGER And I, shall I wait here? Or what is thy plea...
Beneath thy feet imploring? Base betrayer! To rob me of my bow, the means of life, The only means-...
this robe, doing everything to it as he enjoined while he lived. The work is finished. May deeds of...
ULYSSES No more! I must be gone. PHILOCTETES (to NEOPTOLEMUS) Son of Achilles, Thou wilt not lea...
Could to myself the means of life afford, In this poor grotto. On my bow I lived: The winged dove,...