Poems
Selected poems connected with this theme.
The Odyssey
Homer · -750
[The first verses]
Sing to me, O Muse, of the resourceful man who wandered far and wide after he had captured the sacred citadel of Troy. He came to know the cities of many peoples and learned the ways of their minds …
Ulysses
Tennyson
It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
I ca …
Living
Bai Li
The living is a passing traveler;
The dead, a person come home.
One short journey between heaven and earth,
Then, alas! we are the same old dust of ten thousand ages.
The rabbit in the moon pounds out the elixir in v …
ITHAKA
Cavafy
When you set sail for Ithaca,
full of adventures, full of knowledge.
The Lestrygonians and the Cyclopes,
an angry Poseidon — do not fear.
You will never find such on your path,
if your thoughts remain lofty, and you …