by Milton
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit
The opening lines of Milton's great epic
Paradise Lost Book 1, lines 1 - 26
English poems
Troilus and Cressida, Act III Scene 3
Shakespeare eavesdrops on Odysseus and Achilles
by Shakespeare
I do believe it, for they pass'd by me
Ulysses suggests that celebrities cannot rest on their laurels.
Opening lines from Homer’s Odyssey
by Chapman
The man, O Muse, inform, that many a way
The first lines of the Odyssey, translated by George Chapman in a version admired by Keats
Say not the trouble nought availeth
by Clough
Say not the trouble nought availeth
Optimism and self-help from this principled poet of the Victorian era
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
Eton College in the gateway to Orcus
by Gray
Vestibulum ante ipsum primisque in faucibus Orci
Virgil's traces are visible in this eighteenth-century poet