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. My king, what cometh? There appears
  2. Some Spirit, like a mist of tears;
  3. And in her arms a man lieth,
  4. So young, so wearied unto death;
  5. To see such vision presageth
  6. Wrath and great weeping.
The Guards hide their heads in their mantles.
MUSE.
  1. Nay, look your fill, ye Trojans. It is I,
  2. The many-sistered Muse, of worship high
  3. In wise men’s hearts, who come to mourn mine own
  4. Most pitifully loved, most injured, son,