Homer
Homer
Homeris best known as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets. Author of the first known literature of Europe, he is central to the Western canon...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPoet
fool done iliad
Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
dream fate men
Two diverse gates there are of bodiless dreams, These of sawn ivory, and those of horn. Such dreams as issue where the ivory gleams Fly without fate, and turn our hopes to scorn. But dreams which issue through the burnished horn, What man soe'er beholds them on his bed, These work with virtue and of truth are born.
men victory iliad
Victory passes back and forth between men.
imagination vancouver may
Without question it may be said of Vancouver that her position, geographically, is Imperial to a degree, that her possibilities are enormous, and that with but a feeble stretch of the imagination those possibilities might wisely be deemed certainties.
brother men forget
Forget the brother and resume the man.
fighting men steel
Steel itself oft lures a man to fight.
shame poor comrade
Shame is no comrade for the poor, I weet.
age birth
The Grecian ladies counted their age from their marriage, not their birth.
change one-word
Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse.
fame renown deathless
Short is my date, but deathless my renown.
morning ocean men
In saffron-colored mantle from the tides Of Oceans rose the Morning to bright light TO gods and men.
morning ocean heaven
Now from the smooth deep ocean-stream the sun Began to climb the heavens, and with new rays Smote the surrounding fields.
fighting men limits
Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager.
laughter blessed uncontrollable
Uncontrollable laughter arose among the blessed gods.