Homer’s Epigrams
Homer
Homer. Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica. Evelyn-White, Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard), editor. London: William Heinmann; New York: The Macmillan Co., 1914.
- bearing my disappointment with a patient heart.
- My dear limbs yearn not to stay in the sacred streets
- of Cyme, but rather my great heart urges me
- to go unto another country, small though I am.
- Thestorides, full many things there are that mortals cannot sound;
- but there is nothing more unfathomable than the heart of man.
- Hear me, Poseidon, strong shaker of the earth,
- ruler of wide-spread, tawny Helicon!
- Give a fair wind and sight of safe return
- to the shipmen who speed and govern this ship.
- And grant that when I come to the nether slopes of towering Mimas
- I may find honorable, god-fearing men.
- Also may I avenge me on the wretch who deceived me