Rhesus

Euripides

Euripides. The Rhesus of Euripides. Translated into English rhyming verse with explanatory notes by Gilbert Murray. Murray, Gilbert, translator. London: George Allen and Company, Ltd., 1913.

  1. Where death-laden Simois falls,
  2. Of the face of dead Itys that stunned her,
  3. Of grief grown to music and wonder:
  4. Most changeful and old and undying
  5. The nightingale calls.
ANOTHER.
  1. And on Ida the shepherds are waking
  2. Their flocks for the upland. I hear
  3. The skirl of a pipe very distant.
ANOTHER.
  1. And sleep, it falls slow and insistent.
  2. ’Tis perilous sweet when the breaking