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| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | Book Eleven, Chapter I: Oisin's Story; journey to and return from the Country of the Young | high | Oisin returns long after Niamh took him away; the time seemed short to him, but he is later found old and fallen from the white horse. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | Pwyll Prince of Dyved; encounter with Arawn and year in Annwvyn | medium | Arawn restores Pwyll's form, Pwyll returns to Dyved, friendship is strengthened, and Pwyll is called Chief of Annwvyn. | record |
| Persian | Persian Literature, Volume 1 | KAI-KS / THE SEVEN LABORS OF RUSTEM / INVASION OF IRN BY AFRSIYB / THE RETURN OF KAI-KS; lines 5019-5036 | medium | Rustem and companions fall back to the sporting-grounds; from there Rustem informs Kai-ks by letter of the victory gained. | record |
| Norse | The Poetic Edda | HELGAKVITHA HJORVARTHSSONAR / THE LAY OF HELGI THE SON OF HJORVARTH / INTRODUCTORY NOTE / OF HJORVARTH AND SIGRLIN; lines 11252-11299 | high | Sigar reports Helgi fell in the morning at Frekastein; calls him the noblest king beneath the sun; says Alf has the joy of victory. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK SECOND / THE STORY OF THE SACK OF TROY / BOOK THIRD / THE STORY OF THE SEVEN YEARS' WANDERING; lines 1590-1676 | high | The sanctuary and hill shake, the cauldron sounds, and a voice tells the Dardanians to seek their ancient mother; it promises rule to Aeneas' descendants. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK SECOND / THE STORY OF THE SACK OF TROY / BOOK THIRD / THE STORY OF THE SEVEN YEARS' WANDERING; lines 1764-1832 | medium | Andromache contrasts her fate with Priam's daughter who died at Troy, then recounts sailing from the burning land, captivity and slavery under Pyrrhus, his pursuit of Hermione, her transfer to Helenus, Orestes' killing of Neoptolemus over a stolen bride, and Helenus' new Trojan-named realm. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK SECOND / THE STORY OF THE SACK OF TROY / BOOK THIRD / THE STORY OF THE SEVEN YEARS' WANDERING; lines 1916-1995 | medium | Aeneas departs in tears, says his people go from fate to fate, contrasts their rest and rebuilt Troy, and imagines allied Dardanian towns in Epirus and Hesperia becoming a single Troy for posterity. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FOURTH / THE LOVE OF DIDO, AND HER END / BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET; lines 2749-2841 | medium | The fleet lands joyfully on the familiar beach. Acestes comes from a hilltop, armed and wearing a Libyan she-bear skin; he is described as born of a Trojan mother and connected with the Crimisus river, and he welcomes and sustains the arrivals. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET / BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD; lines 3469-3560 | medium | The oracle says the Dardanians will reach Lavinium, but wars and blood await; it names another Simois, Xanthus, Dorian camp, a goddess-born Achilles for Latium, Juno’s ongoing presence, and another alien bride as a source of woe. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET / BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD; lines 3562-3611 | high | The Sibyl addresses Aeneas as sprung from gods' blood and says descent into hell is easy, but return to upper air is difficult; forest and Cocytus surround the way, and she mentions Stygian lake and dark Tartarus. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET / BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD; lines 4025-4104 | high | “Souls, for whom second bodies are destined and due, drink at the wave of the Lethean stream the heedless water of long forgetfulness.” | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET / BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD; lines 4106-4133 | high | Ghosts go to Elysium until time removes pollution; after the thousand-year wheel, a God summons them to Lethe so they forget and desire return to the body. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET / BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD; lines 4135-4222 | medium | Caesar Augustus is called a god’s son who will restore a golden age in Latium and extend empire to remote regions; the passage compares his scope with Alcides and Liber. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET / BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD; lines 4224-4264 | high | Anchises and Aeneas wander through the broad vaporous plains; Anchises shows the whole scene, kindles Aeneas' spirit with coming glories, and instructs him about future wars, peoples, and tasks. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD / BOOK SEVENTH / THE LANDING IN LATIUM, AND THE ROLL OF THE ARMIES OF ITALY; lines 4359-4446 | medium | Aeneas, captains, and Iülus feast beneath a high tree; when food runs short they eat the bread platters, Iülus jokes that they are eating tables, and Aeneas recalls Anchises' prophecy that this would mark home. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD / BOOK SEVENTH / THE LANDING IN LATIUM, AND THE ROLL OF THE ARMIES OF ITALY; lines 4448-4521 | medium | Ilioneus tells Latinus the Trojans came by purpose rather than storm or error, are outcasts from a former great realm, descend from Jove, and were sent by Aeneas. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK TENTH / THE BATTLE ON THE BEACH / BOOK ELEVENTH / THE COUNCIL OF THE LATINS, AND THE LIFE AND DEATH OF CAMILLA; lines 7257-7341 | medium | Diomede answers that the Greeks who fought at Ilium have paid punishment for guilt throughout the world, citing Minerva's sign, shipwrecks, exile, displaced households, and Agamemnon's murder. | record |
| Ainu | Aino Folk-Tales | AINO FOLK-LORE. / I.--TALES ACCOUNTING FOR THE ORIGIN OF PHENOMENA. / II.--MORAL TALES. / IV.--MISCELLANEOUS TALES.; lines 1629-1717 | high | The chief and sons sail away with a fair wind, reach Iwanai, find their wives wearing widows' caps, recount woman-land, and show the marked scabbard. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 10294-10395 | high | The princess mounts the horse; the physician uses braziers, perfumes, circling gestures, and muttered words; smoke conceals them, he mounts behind her, turns the peg, and the horse rises while he rebukes the Sultan about consent. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 10947-11054 | high | The princess sprinkles water on each black stone, and each becomes a man; she explains to her restored brothers that she broke the spell and delivered them and the others. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 11408-11447 | high | Early the next day the Sultan and Sultana, dressed in robes of state and followed by the court, set out for the country house of their children. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 1409-1550 | high | The Sultan plans with the young king, kills the wounded slave's remaining life, throws the body into a well, lies on the couch, and answers the enchantress in the slave's voice. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 1972-2079 | medium | After returning to the palace, drums and trumpets announce an approaching army led by the vizir who dethroned the narrator’s father; the capital opens its gates, the uncle falls in battle, and the narrator escapes through a secret passage to a trusted officer. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 2400-2513 | medium | When alone with the dervish, the envious man edges toward the well, seizes him, drops him in, and runs away unseen. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 2739-2840 | medium | The princess orders water brought, speaks magic words over it, dashes it into the narrator's face, and tells him to resume his former human form if he is only a monkey by enchantment. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 2842-2935 | medium | Agib swims and floats toward land until his strength fails; a wind and large wave cast him onto a flat shore, where he dries his clothes and rests. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 3445-3549 | medium | The captain says the goods belonged to Sindbad of Bagdad, who was believed drowned after passengers landed on a supposed island that was actually an enormous sleeping whale; the whale plunged into the sea when it felt the heat of a kindled fire. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 3445-3549 | high | Sindbad sees a newly anchored ship unloading at the quay, notices his own name on packages, recognizes them as goods loaded at Balsora, and recognizes the captain. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 3445-3549 | high | Sindbad trades for sandalwood, aloes wood, camphor, spices, and other goods; reaches Balsora with about one hundred thousand sequins; is joyfully received by his family; and establishes a great house. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 3631-3726 | medium | Sindbad accompanies the merchants homeward across high mountains infested with frightful serpents and reaches the seashore safely. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 3824-3922 | medium | The captain asks the narrator to trade merchandise belonging to a dead passenger; the ship's list-keeper asks the registration name, and the captain replies, Sindbad the Sailor. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 3924-4008 | high | Sindbad identifies himself to the captain as the abandoned passenger; the captain is convinced, rejoices, and gives him his goods and profits. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 3924-4008 | medium | For seven days Sindbad travels, resting at night and living chiefly on coconuts, then reaches the seashore and sees white men gathering abundant pepper. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 4109-4187 | medium | A vessel appears; the narrator signals, is questioned by sailors, claims shipwreck, has his bales taken aboard, and is welcomed by a captain who refuses jewel payment. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 4276-4375 | medium | Sindbad sells coconuts, continues earning, sails to trade coconuts for pepper and aloes wood, gains pearls, returns to Bagdad, sells his treasures, and gives a tenth to the poor. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 4377-4474 | medium | Sindbad constructs a driftwood raft with cords, loads packages of rubies, emeralds, crystal, ambergris, and precious stuffs, sits on it with oars, and releases it into the current. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 447-571 | high | The merchant asks the genius for a year's grace and promises to return the next year under the trees; the genius leaves him near the fountain and disappears. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 4476-4585 | medium | Sindbad’s guests depart after the sixth voyage, Hindbad receives a hundred sequins, and Sindbad begins the seventh voyage by saying he had resolved to go to sea no more and wished for peace. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 4687-4778 | high | Sindbad waits for the monsoon, gathers ivory, boards an ivory ship with provisions and curiosities, leaves at the first port, sells ivory for gold, buys presents, joins a caravan, reflects on avoided sea perils including tempests, pirates, and serpents, and reaches Bagdad. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 5372-5483 | medium | The judge confiscates Alnaschar's goods, orders him out of town, robbers strip him on the road, and the narrator dresses him and brings him back disguised at night. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 6661-6767 | medium | The gardener returns with news that the ship will set sail in three days and that Camaralzaman's passage has been arranged with the captain. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 67-194 | low | The preface says Sindbad's adventures perhaps came from Homer's Odyssey; all the East sent its wonders to Europe, and people talked of dervishes, vizirs, rocs, and peris. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 6769-6889 | medium | Badoura says the talisman caused her separation from her husband and will be the means of their reunion. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 6891-7008 | medium | The captain brings Camaralzaman to the palace; Badoura recognizes him despite shabby clothes, restrains herself, orders him treated well, removes the warehouse seals, and rewards the captain with a diamond and gold. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 690-804 | high | The fairy transports the narrator to the roof of his house and vanishes; he digs up his buried sequins, reopens his shop, and later sees two black dogs whom the fairy identifies as his brothers, condemned to remain in those shapes for ten years. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 7790-7897 | medium | The execution announcement causes universal grief; Noureddin is brought to the palace square, where guards restrain the people from rescuing him. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 7899-8017 | medium | After two days in darkness, Aladdin rubs the ring while praying; an enormous genie called the Slave of the Ring appears, and Aladdin commands it to deliver him, after which the earth opens and he is outside. He later shows his mother the lamp and fruits, which are precious stones. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 8269-8381 | high | The princess opens the door to Aladdin; Aladdin takes the lamp from the dead magician's vest and commands the genie to carry the palace and everything in it back to China. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 8383-8498 | medium | Aladdin asks for the holy Fatima to treat his headache, then pierces the approaching magician to the heart with a dagger and tells the princess that the victim was a wicked magician. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 9037-9136 | low | An unfamiliar woman presents six coins with one false coin; Rufus identifies it, she acknowledges he is right, studies him, and signals him to follow secretly. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 9249-9360 | high | Ali Cogia travels by camel and caravan to Mecca, visits the sacred Mosque, performs religious duties, and displays his goods for sale. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 9900-9995 | high | The prince is moved by the princess's kindness but says duty requires him to return to his father, who he believes is in deep grief over his absence. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 9997-10096 | high | The people welcome the returned prince; the Sultan and ministers are in mourning. The prince recounts his story and asks consent to marry the Princess of Bengal; the Sultan consents and orders mourning replaced by music. | record |
| Indigenous Australian | Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies | CONTENTS / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION / ANDREW LANG.; lines 2092-2197 | medium | The mother says the wives shall no longer have him; he will live hidden in her dardurr and be carried in a large comebee when going in and out of camp. | record |
| Buddhist | Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 | END OF THE STORY OF THE DOG. / END OF THE STORY OF THE BHOJA THOROUGHBRED. / END OF THE STORY OF THE THOROUGHBRED. / END OF THE STORY OF THE FORD.; lines 11244-11360 | medium | When the man hears the proclamation he releases the dog; the dog hastens back, and the elephant lifts him with his trunk, places him on his forehead, weeps, sets him down, watches him eat, and then eats. | record |
| Buddhist | Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 | THE BIRTH STORIES. / INDEX 339 / INTRODUCTION. / THE KALILAG AND DAMNAG LITERATURE.; lines 1231-1266 | low | Stories Planudes borrowed indirectly from India are said to have been restored to India through translations, including translations by an Englishman into Indian languages and a Sanskrit translation by Narayan Balkrishna Godpole. | record |
| Buddhist | Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 | TABLE OF CONTENTS. / PART I. / PART II. / SUPPLEMENTARY TABLES.; lines 202-273 | medium | Headings include Kisā Gotamī’s song, the Great Renunciation, struggle against sin, victory over Satan, bliss of Nirvāna, hesitation to publish the good news, and foundation of the Kingdom of Righteousness. | record |
| Buddhist | Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 | TABLE VII. / THE BODISATS. / TABLE VIII. / THE DISTANT EPOCH.; lines 3549-3662 | medium | The multitudes compare their hope to men who cross a river at a lower ford if they miss the opposite ford; if they fail under Dīpankara, they hope to attain paths and fruition before Sumedha as a future Buddha. | record |
| Buddhist | Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 | TABLE VII. / THE BODISATS. / TABLE VIII. / THE DISTANT EPOCH.; lines 6793-6896 | medium | When sixty-one persons are arahats, the Master sends sixty mendicants in different directions with the words, “Go forth ... preaching and teaching.” | record |
| Buddhist | Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 | TABLE VII. / THE BODISATS. / TABLE VIII. / THE DISTANT EPOCH.; lines 7002-7115 | high | On the March full moon Udāyin notes that spring has come, crops and journeys begin, the earth is green, woods are flowering, and roads are fit; his verses compare red blossoms to glowing fires and say the season is neither too hot nor too cold. | record |
| Buddhist | Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 | TABLE VIII. / THE DISTANT EPOCH. / GLORY BE TO THE BLESSED, THE HOLY, THE ALL-WISE ONE. / BOOK I.; lines 7831-7873 | high | The Teacher says those relying on their own reason were destroyed, while those holding to truth escaped demons, went where they wished, and returned home. | record |
| Buddhist | Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 | GLORY BE TO THE BLESSED, THE HOLY, THE ALL-WISE ONE. / BOOK I. / END OF THE STORY ON HOLDING TO THE TRUTH. / END OF THE STORY OF THE SANDY ROAD.; lines 8171-8299 | medium | The child asks his mother about relatives after hearing other children speak of uncles and grandparents; she says they have a rich grandfather and many relations at Rājagaha. | record |
| Buddhist | Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 | END OF THE STORY ON HOLDING TO THE TRUTH. / END OF THE STORY OF THE SANDY ROAD. / END OF THE STORY OF CHULLAKA THE TREASURER. / END OF THE STORY OF THE MEASURE OF RICE.; lines 8926-9051 | medium | The moved water-sprite offers one brother; the Bodisat asks for the younger and explains that the younger's political danger caused the forest exile, so his loss would bring blame and disbelief. | record |
| Buddhist | Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 | END OF THE STORY OF CHULLAKA THE TREASURER. / END OF THE STORY OF THE MEASURE OF RICE. / END OF THE STORY ABOUT TRUE DIVINITY. / END OF THE STORY ON A HAPPY LIFE.; lines 9262-9390 | medium | The old Bodisat tells his sons to lead their herds to the mountainous part of the forest during the growing crops and return when the crops are cut. | record |
| Daoist | Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer | CHAPTER XXI. / CHAPTER XXII. / KNOWLEDGE TRAVELS NORTH. / CHAPTER XXIII.; lines 10062-10217 | medium | The passage describes issuing forth without return, attaining the goal as death, being annihilated yet existing as convergence into One, and birth and death as not absolute beginning or end. | record |
| Daoist | Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer | OPENING TRUNKS. / B.C. 481. / CHAPTER XI. / ON LETTING ALONE.; lines 4793-4916 | medium | The Vital Principle says all things should revert to original constitution; without knowledge they will keep simple purity, while knowledge brings divergence; if names and relations are not sought, things flourish of themselves. | record |
| Daoist | Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer | CHAPTER XIV. / THE CIRCLING SKY. / CHAPTER XV. / SELF-CONCEIT.; lines 6613-6755 | medium | The Sage’s birth is the will of God, death is a modification of existence, repose shares Yin passivity, and action shares Yang energy. | record |
| Daoist | Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer | MOUNTAIN TREES. / CHAPTER XXI. / CHAPTER XXII. / KNOWLEDGE TRAVELS NORTH.; lines 9363-9514 | high | Men in the Middle Kingdom recognize neither positive nor negative, abide between heaven and earth, act as mortals, and return to the Cause; life is a concentration of vital fluid. | record |
| Buddhist | The Giant Crab, and Other Tales from Old India | THE BOLD BEGGAR / THE JACKAL WOULD A-WOOING GO / THE LION AND THE BOAR / THE GOBLIN CITY; lines 2358-2435 | medium | A kind fairy who hates the goblins sends a flying horse; the captain sees a beautiful horse with white and gold wings, and the horse asks in a human voice who wants to go home. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER XII. THE RED WOMAN / CHAPTER XIII. FINN AND THE PHANTOMS / CHAPTER XIV. THE PIGS OF ANGUS / CHAPTER XV. THE HUNT OF SLIEVE CUILINN; lines 10196-10295 | high | Cuilinn of Cuailgne, said by some to be Manannan son of Lir, comes out of the hill holding a red-gold vessel and gives it to Finn. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | BOOK SIX: DIARMUID. / CHAPTER I. BIRTH OF DIARMUID / CHAPTER II. HOW DIARMUID GOT HIS LOVE-SPOT / CHAPTER III. THE DAUGHTER OF KING UNDER-WAVE; lines 10809-10863 | high | After the healing, music replaces lamenting. Diarmuid refuses reward, asks for a ship home to Ireland, and receives a joyful welcome from Finn and the Fianna. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER I. BIRTH OF DIARMUID / CHAPTER II. HOW DIARMUID GOT HIS LOVE-SPOT / CHAPTER III. THE DAUGHTER OF KING UNDER-WAVE / CHAPTER IV. THE HARD SERVANT; lines 11156-11258 | medium | At another gathering, a troop of champions arrives with silk flags, swords, and spears, with Diarmuid at the front; Finn sends Fergus of the True Lips to ask news, and they exchange accounts. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER I. BIRTH OF DIARMUID / CHAPTER II. HOW DIARMUID GOT HIS LOVE-SPOT / CHAPTER III. THE DAUGHTER OF KING UNDER-WAVE / CHAPTER IV. THE HARD SERVANT; lines 11260-11269 | medium | Finn makes the Hard Servant bring home the fifteen men he had taken away, and the men are brought back to Ireland. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER I. THE FIGHT WITH THE FIRBOLGS / CHAPTER II. THE REIGN OF BRES / BOOK TWO: LUGH OF THE LONG HAND. / CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF LUGH; lines 1267-1358 | medium | Lugh Lamh-Fada is recognized as returning with Riders of the Sidhe from the Land of Promise and his named foster-brothers, sons of Manannan. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER IV. THE WOOD OF DUBHROS / CHAPTER V. THE QUARREL / CHAPTER VI. THE WANDERERS / CHAPTER VII. FIGHTING AND PEACE; lines 12688-12798 | medium | Diarmuid and Grania settle at Rath Grania in Ceis Corainn, have four sons and one daughter, live in peace, and are said to be very rich in precious metals and livestock. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER II. MEARGACH'S WIFE / CHAPTER III. AILNE'S REVENGE / BOOK NINE: THE WEARING AWAY OF THE FIANNA. / CHAPTER I. THE QUARREL WITH THE SONS OF MORNA; lines 13697-13784 | medium | Garraidh recounts Cumhal's banishment of the sons of Morna to several countries for sixteen years, their return to Ireland, killings, surrounding a red-walled house in Munster, and each man wounding Cumhal with a spear; Garraidh says he gave the first wound. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER II. DEATH OF GOLL / CHAPTER III. THE BATTLE OF GABHRA / BOOK TEN: THE END OF THE FIANNA. / CHAPTER I. DEATH OF BRAN; lines 14136-14161 | medium | Some say Bran and Sceolan are still seen at night starting out of the thicket on the hill of Almhuin. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER III. THE BATTLE OF GABHRA / BOOK TEN: THE END OF THE FIANNA. / CHAPTER I. DEATH OF BRAN / CHAPTER II. THE CALL OF OISIN; lines 14164-14263 | high | Oisin says Niamh is his choice, agrees to go willingly, kisses Finn farewell, bids farewell to the Fianna, and mounts the horse with Niamh. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | BOOK TEN: THE END OF THE FIANNA. / CHAPTER I. DEATH OF BRAN / CHAPTER II. THE CALL OF OISIN / CHAPTER III. THE LAST OF THE GREAT MEN; lines 14266-14358 | high | A smith makes a key for a cave door, enters a wide place, sees very large men lying on the floor, and recognizes the largest figure in the middle with the Dord Fiann beside him as Finn among the Fianna. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | BOOK TEN: THE END OF THE FIANNA. / CHAPTER I. DEATH OF BRAN / CHAPTER II. THE CALL OF OISIN / CHAPTER III. THE LAST OF THE GREAT MEN; lines 14266-14358 | high | The smith lifts and blows the Dord Fiann; the great sound nearly brings down rocks, the lying men shake, and after a second blast they turn on their elbows. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | BOOK TEN: THE END OF THE FIANNA. / CHAPTER I. DEATH OF BRAN / CHAPTER II. THE CALL OF OISIN / CHAPTER III. THE LAST OF THE GREAT MEN; lines 14266-14358 | medium | Some say Finn has been on earth now and again since old times in the shape of one of Ireland’s heroes. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER II. THE CALL OF OISIN / CHAPTER III. THE LAST OF THE GREAT MEN / BOOK ELEVEN: OISIN AND PATRICK. / CHAPTER I. OISIN'S STORY; lines 14361-14452 | high | Oisin returns to Ireland after a very long time in the Country of the Young, though it seemed short; he is found as a withered old man on the ground while his white horse goes away. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER II. THE CALL OF OISIN / CHAPTER III. THE LAST OF THE GREAT MEN / BOOK ELEVEN: OISIN AND PATRICK. / CHAPTER I. OISIN'S STORY; lines 14454-14544 | high | Oisin asks leave of the king and Niamh to return to Ireland; Niamh fears he will not return, warns him not to get off the white horse or touch the ground, says he would become old and blind, and gives him a farewell kiss. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER III. THE GREAT BATTLE OF MAGH TUIREADH / CHAPTER IV. THE HIDDEN HOUSE OF LUGH / BOOK THREE: THE COMING OF THE GAEL. / CHAPTER I. THE LANDING; lines 2744-2820 | medium | The Sons of the Gael move to nine waves from shore; the Men of Dea raise a great wind by enchantments and spells; Amergin and Arranan know it is not a natural storm. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER I. THE LANDING / CHAPTER II. THE BATTLE OF TAILLTIN / BOOK FOUR: THE EVER-LIVING LIVING ONES. / CHAPTER I. BODB DEARG; lines 2984-3048 | medium | When their lifetime is over, they go back to the Tuatha de Danaan because they belong to them through their wives, and they remain there. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER IV. THE MORRIGU / CHAPTER V. AINE / CHAPTER VI. AOIBHELL / CHAPTER VII. MIDHIR AND ETAIN; lines 3701-3785 | medium | Eochaid searches Ireland without finding tidings because the pair are in Sidhe houses; they go to the Brugh of Angus and then to a Connacht Sidhe hill named after Cruachan Croderg. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER VII. MIDHIR AND ETAIN / CHAPTER VIII. MANANNAN / CHAPTER IX. MANANNAN AT PLAY / CHAPTER X. HIS CALL TO BRAN; lines 4222-4255 | high | It seems to the voyagers that they have been there only a year; Nechtan longs for home and his kinsmen urge Bran to return to Ireland. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER VII. MIDHIR AND ETAIN / CHAPTER VIII. MANANNAN / CHAPTER IX. MANANNAN AT PLAY / CHAPTER X. HIS CALL TO BRAN; lines 4222-4255 | high | The woman says they will repent if they go, tells them not to touch land when they reach Ireland, and tells them to bring the man left in the Island of Joy. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER VII. MIDHIR AND ETAIN / CHAPTER VIII. MANANNAN / CHAPTER IX. MANANNAN AT PLAY / CHAPTER X. HIS CALL TO BRAN; lines 4222-4255 | medium | Bran tells the people the whole story of his wanderings, bids them farewell, and his wanderings afterward are unknown. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER VIII. MANANNAN / CHAPTER IX. MANANNAN AT PLAY / CHAPTER X. HIS CALL TO BRAN / CHAPTER XI. HIS THREE CALLS TO CORMAC; lines 4358-4447 | high | Cormac tells how his wife, son, and daughter were brought away from him and how he followed them to that place; the pig is then fully boiled. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER XI. HIS THREE CALLS TO CORMAC / CHAPTER XII. CLIODNA'S WAVE / CHAPTER XIII. HIS CALL TO CONNLA / CHAPTER XIV. TADG IN MANANNAN'S ISLANDS; lines 4609-4694 | high | The chapter opens by saying Tadg went to the Land of the Ever-Living Ones and came back again. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER XI. HIS THREE CALLS TO CORMAC / CHAPTER XII. CLIODNA'S WAVE / CHAPTER XIII. HIS CALL TO CONNLA / CHAPTER XIV. TADG IN MANANNAN'S ISLANDS; lines 4786-4887 | high | Cliodna of the Fair Hair identifies herself as of the Tuatha de Danaan, beloved of Ciabhan, source of the name Cliodna's wave, and a long-time island dweller who eats the tree's apples. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER XI. HIS THREE CALLS TO CORMAC / CHAPTER XII. CLIODNA'S WAVE / CHAPTER XIII. HIS CALL TO CONNLA / CHAPTER XIV. TADG IN MANANNAN'S ISLANDS; lines 4889-4898 | high | After resting, Tadg, Liban, Tadg's two brothers, and many treasures face the sea and come home safely to Ireland. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER XII. CLIODNA'S WAVE / CHAPTER XIII. HIS CALL TO CONNLA / CHAPTER XIV. TADG IN MANANNAN'S ISLANDS / CHAPTER XV. LAEGAIRE IN THE HAPPY PLAIN; lines 4901-5032 | medium | "If you have a mind to go," said Fiachna, "bring horses with you; but whatever happens," he said, "do not get off from them." | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER XIII. HIS CALL TO CONNLA / CHAPTER XIV. TADG IN MANANNAN'S ISLANDS / CHAPTER XV. LAEGAIRE IN THE HAPPY PLAIN / BOOK FIVE: THE FATE OF THE CHILDREN OF LIR; lines 5034-5139 | medium | Laegaire says each of fifty men has a wife, names his own wife as the Tear of the Sun, says he has a blue sword, values one night of the Sidhe above the other kingdom, returns there, and is made king with Fiachna and Fiachna’s daughter. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER XIII. HIS CALL TO CONNLA / CHAPTER XIV. TADG IN MANANNAN'S ISLANDS / CHAPTER XV. LAEGAIRE IN THE HAPPY PLAIN / BOOK FIVE: THE FATE OF THE CHILDREN OF LIR; lines 5477-5602 | high | The children return to Sidhe Fionnachaidh and find their father's place empty, with only green hillocks and nettles, no house, no fire, and no hearthstone; they cry sorrowfully and Fionnuala laments the lost household. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER IV. OISIN'S MOTHER. / CHAPTER V. THE BEST MEN OF THE FIANNA / BOOK TWO: FINN'S HELPERS / CHAPTER I. THE LAD OF THE SKINS; lines 6660-6711 | high | At the strand, the woman says Finn has brought him back dead; she cries over the bird, brings it into a little boat, and asks Finn to push it to sea. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER V. THE BEST MEN OF THE FIANNA / BOOK TWO: FINN'S HELPERS / CHAPTER I. THE LAD OF THE SKINS / CHAPTER II. BLACK, BROWN, AND GREY; lines 6714-6821 | medium | After twenty-one years, the Red-Haired Man seeks Finn as master for twenty-one years, asking only burial on Inis Caol if he dies; he serves twenty years, withers in the twenty-first, and dies. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | GODS AND FIGHTING MEN: / ARRANGED AND PUT INTO ENGLISH BY LADY GREGORY. / WITH A PREFACE BY W.B. YEATS / DEDICATION TO THE MEMBERS OF THE IRISH LITERARY SOCIETY OF NEW YORK; lines 68-98 | medium | Some members have visited; the speaker hopes Atlantic steamers will return full until some members find their real home in Ireland. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER V. THE BEST MEN OF THE FIANNA / BOOK TWO: FINN'S HELPERS / CHAPTER I. THE LAD OF THE SKINS / CHAPTER II. BLACK, BROWN, AND GREY; lines 6823-6842 | medium | Before the Red-Haired Man can kill more than three, Diarmuid hears the Dord Fiann, enters, kills him, ends the enchantment, and Finn returns to Almhuin with nine remaining Fianna. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | BOOK TWO: FINN'S HELPERS / CHAPTER I. THE LAD OF THE SKINS / CHAPTER II. BLACK, BROWN, AND GREY / CHAPTER III. THE HOUND; lines 6939-7029 | medium | After the Fianna's time, three flocks of birds come three times in a year from the western sea into West Munster, with bone beaks, fiery breath, and cold wing-wind, taking crops, fruit, animals, and children; their first arrival is on the anniversary of the sons of Uar being put out to sea. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | GODS AND FIGHTING MEN. / PART ONE: THE GODS. / BOOK ONE: THE COMING OF THE TUATHA DE DANAAN. / CHAPTER I. THE FIGHT WITH THE FIRBOLGS; lines 748-839 | low | When three hundred Firbolgs remain under Sreng, Nuada offers peace and a choice among the five provinces; Sreng chooses Connacht, where the Firbolg survivors and their descendants live, and the battle is called the first battle of Magh Tuireadh by some. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER XII. THE GREAT FIGHT / CHAPTER XIII. CREDHE'S LAMENT / BOOK FOUR: HUNTINGS AND ENCHANTMENTS. / CHAPTER I. THE KING OF BRITAIN'S SON; lines 8361-8449 | medium | Arthur notices Bran, Sceolan, and Adhnuall, plans to take them across the sea, does so with his men, lands on the coast of Britain, and goes to the mountain of Lodan to hunt. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | BOOK FOUR: HUNTINGS AND ENCHANTMENTS. / CHAPTER I. THE KING OF BRITAIN'S SON / CHAPTER II. THE CAVE OF CEISCORAN / CHAPTER III. DONN SON OF MIDHIR; lines 8737-8837 | medium | The young men say Finn has been gone for a year, wonder what the Fianna will do without their lord and leader, and sorrow for his loss; Caoilte grieves to see them. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | BOOK FOUR: HUNTINGS AND ENCHANTMENTS. / CHAPTER I. THE KING OF BRITAIN'S SON / CHAPTER II. THE CAVE OF CEISCORAN / CHAPTER III. DONN SON OF MIDHIR; lines 8737-8837 | high | Berngal reports that while Finn followed a deer of the Sidhe, Finn gave him a shining-headed spear and hound’s collar to keep until they met again; Berngal shows the spear and collar to the king and Goll. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | BOOK FOUR: HUNTINGS AND ENCHANTMENTS. / CHAPTER I. THE KING OF BRITAIN'S SON / CHAPTER II. THE CAVE OF CEISCORAN / CHAPTER III. DONN SON OF MIDHIR; lines 8737-8837 | high | Cithruadh the Druid says Finn is living but refuses to say where; because his prophecies have always come true, the people rejoice, and he says Finn will be seen drinking at the feast before it ends. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER VIII. THE CAVE OF CRUACHAN / CHAPTER IX. THE WEDDING AT CEANN SLIEVE / CHAPTER X. THE SHADOWY ONE / CHAPTER XI. FINN'S MADNESS; lines 9748-9800 | medium | The chief men of the Fianna leave Finn. Caoilte follows them thirteen times and brings them back, urging them not to abandon their lord because of the arts and tricks of a woman of the Sidhe. By nightfall Finn's bitterness leaves and his sense and memory return. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER IX. THE WEDDING AT CEANN SLIEVE / CHAPTER X. THE SHADOWY ONE / CHAPTER XI. FINN'S MADNESS / CHAPTER XII. THE RED WOMAN; lines 9906-9957 | medium | Instead of a beast, Finn and his men see a tall dead man; the Red Woman identifies him as the King of the Firbolgs, foretells future trouble from his people, and says she is going to the Country of the Young and can bring Finn. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | CHAPTER I. THE KING OF THE WOOD. / MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE.; lines 3187-3263 | medium | A Santal story says a sleeping man's soul, in lizard form, enters a water pitcher, is trapped when the pitcher is covered, and the man dies; when the lizard is released and returns, the body revives. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | CHAPTER I. THE KING OF THE WOOD. / MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE.; lines 3187-3263 | high | The soul may leave during waking hours as well as sleep, and sickness or death may result if the absence is prolonged; Mongol explanations of sickness include the soul's absence or inability to find its way back. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | CHAPTER I. THE KING OF THE WOOD. / MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE.; lines 3265-3343 | high | Karen funeral practices include tying children during a passing funeral, using split bamboo and sticks at the grave to show souls how to climb out, avoiding burying souls with bamboos, carrying the bamboos away, and using three branch-hooks while calling the spirit to prevent it from remaining with the dead. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | CHAPTER I. THE KING OF THE WOOD. / MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE.; lines 3892-3959 | high | A returning traveler may be thought to have contracted magical evil from strangers and must undergo purification before rejoining tribe and friends. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.; lines 6147-6234 | medium | The passage says Adonis spends half or a third of the year in the lower world and the rest in the upper world, and Frazer interprets this as vegetation or corn buried in earth and reappearing above ground. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.; lines 7047-7107 | high | A different form of the myth says Dionysus descended into Hades to bring his mother Semele up from the dead. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.; lines 7047-7107 | high | The Argive tradition says Dionysus descended through the Alcyonian lake; the Argives annually celebrated his return by summoning him from the water with trumpet blasts and throwing a lamb into the lake for the warder of the dead. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.; lines 8746-8810 | medium | Frazer says the Bithynian Bormus resembles Lityerses: Bormus, a king's son or son of a wealthy distinguished man, was annually mourned by reapers after his death or disappearance; he disappeared while fetching water and in one version was carried off by water nymphs. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 2284-2369 | medium | An eyewitness sees a procession of fifty men go westward, led by a painted, shell-bedecked priest and followed by the torch-bearing Shu-lu-wit-si, or God of Fire. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 2371-2451 | medium | Frazer asks why a turtle believed to contain a kinsman’s soul would be killed; he proposes communication with the other world, returning spirits welcomed and sent away, and the Zuni dead fetched back as turtles and sent to spirit-land by killing, while noting the meaning is obscure. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 7733-7804 | medium | At the king’s order a forest place is appointed; youths are brought there weeping, told they must suffer death, dispose of property, and are instructed by initiated persons in a dance called killing and songs praising Belli. | record |
| Persian | The Persian Literature, Volume 2, The Gulistan | CHAPTER / THE GULISTAN / SA'DI / INTRODUCTION; lines 123-223 | medium | Sa'di studies the Koran, turns to Sufism under a teacher, travels after the Tartar invasion to many regions, preaches at Baalbec, wanders near Jerusalem, works as a slave in Africa, travels Asia Minor, and returns to Shiraz to compose the Rose Garden. | record |
| Persian | The Persian Literature, Volume 2, The Gulistan | XVIII / XXVII / CHAPTER IV / CHAPTER V; lines 2879-2969 | high | A person asks an absent friend where he has been; the reply says it is better to be sought after than loathed, followed by reflection that a rarely seen mistress is more desired. | record |
| Persian | The Persian Literature, Volume 2, The Gulistan | XVIII / XXVII / CHAPTER IV / CHAPTER V; lines 2879-2969 | high | The narrator and friend were like two kernels in one almond shell; after an unexpected journey and return, the friend complains no messenger was sent, and the narrator says he did not want a courier to see the friend's countenance. | record |
| Persian | The Persian Literature, Volume 2, The Gulistan | XVIII / XXVII / CHAPTER IV / CHAPTER V; lines 2879-2969 | high | After the young person's behavior displeases him, the narrator withdraws communication and affection; the youth departs saying the sun is not diminished by the bat's dislike, and the narrator later regrets the lost enjoyment and calls for return. | record |
| Persian | The Persian Literature, Volume 2, The Gulistan | THE GULISTAN / SA'DI / INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I; lines 823-889 | medium | The narrator accompanies friends to Hijaz and returns from pilgrimage to Mecca. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Heroic Romances of Ireland | THE RAID FOR THE CATTLE OF FRAECH / TAIN BO FRAICH / Part I / LITERAL TRANSLATION; lines 10095-10225 | medium | Fraech says, "this is the cry of my mother and of the women of Boand"; the women then bring him to the Sid of Cruachan, glossed as deep burial caverns at Cruachan. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Heroic Romances of Ireland | Part I / LITERAL TRANSLATION / TAIN BO FRAICH / PART II; lines 10427-10468 | medium | The serpent leaves Conall's belt and harms him no further; the party travels north to the Pictish domains, finds three cattle on the plains, and drives them to the shore by Dunolly. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Heroic Romances of Ireland | PART II / TAIN BO FRAICH / PART II / LITERAL TRANSLATION; lines 10471-10576 | high | Fraech's mother tells him his cows, wife, and three sons have been stolen and taken toward the mountain of Elpa, with three cows among the Picts in northern Alba. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Heroic Romances of Ireland | LITERAL TRANSLATION / THE RAID FOR DARTAID'S CATTLE / INTRODUCTION / THE RAID FOR DARTAID'S CATTLE; lines 10617-10737 | medium | After three days and nights of feasting, Eocho's party rides home, is attacked by seven times twenty sons of Glaschu at the isle of O'Canda, and Eocho with all forty foster-princes is killed; lamentation spreads through Ireland. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Heroic Romances of Ireland | PROLOGUE IN FAIRYLAND / FROM THE LEABHAR NA H-UIDHRI / THE COURTSHIP OF ETAIN / EGERTON VERSION; lines 1508-1595 | medium | At a gathering and horse-races in Fremain, Mider searches for Etain, finds her among her women, and carries her and Crochen the Ruddy away; his approaching form is hideous. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Heroic Romances of Ireland | FROM THE BOOK OF LEINSTER (TWELFTH-CENTURY MS.) / THE SICK-BED OF CUCHULAIN / INTRODUCTION / THE SICK-BED OF CUCHULAIN; lines 2813-2910 | medium | Cuchulain sits up and speaks; when asked what happened, he says he saw a vision on the previous Samhain night and tells all he had seen. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Heroic Romances of Ireland | FROM THE BOOK OF LEINSTER (TWELFTH-CENTURY MS.) / THE SICK-BED OF CUCHULAIN / INTRODUCTION / THE SICK-BED OF CUCHULAIN; lines 3086-3238 | medium | Liban tells Labraid that Laeg has come from Cuchulain and that Cuchulain will join his hosts; Labraid welcomes Laeg and sends him home with Liban. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Heroic Romances of Ireland | THE EXILE OF THE SONS' OF USNACH / INTRODUCTION / THE EXILE OF THE SONS OF USNACH / BOOK OF LEINSTER VERSION; lines 4333-4402 | low | Deirdre says Fergus brought ruin, that they crossed the ocean and trusted him, and that his honour was bought by a cup of ale. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Heroic Romances of Ireland | IN TWO VOLUMES / VOL. I / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION IN VERSE; lines 655-781 | medium | Learning fled the western world in fear of warrior bands and was raised once more by Irish hands, with her banner unfurled. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Heroic Romances of Ireland | PAGES 68, 69 / PAGE 69 / PAGE 71 / PAGE 76; lines 7683-7698 | medium | The note directs the reader to Thurneysen's literal translation of Faud's triumph song over Cuchulain's return. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Heroic Romances of Ireland | PAGE 79 / PAGE 81 / PAGE 82 / PAGE 83; lines 7808-7851 | medium | The note describes the final poem as one in which Fand returns to Manannan. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Heroic Romances of Ireland | PAGE 93 / PAGE 95 / PAGE 97 / PAGE 98; lines 7989-8140 | low | The speaker says a band of heroes entering Emain may seem fair, but the return home of the three heroic sons of Usnach was more stately. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Heroic Romances of Ireland | PAGE 126 / PAGE 127 / PAGE 128 / PAGE 129; lines 8397-8439 | low | “What has brought thee here, O Hound, / to fight with a strong champion?” The stanza also warns that crimson-red blood will flow, the journey is woe, and healing will be needed if he reaches home alive. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Heroic Romances of Ireland | MORTALS / IMMORTALS / TAIN BO FRAICH / THE RAID FOR THE CATTLE OF FRAECH; lines 9353-9526 | high | Ailill regrets Fraech's injury, threatens future punishment for his daughter, and orders a healing bath of fresh bacon broth and minced heifer flesh for Fraech. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Heroic Romances of Ireland | MORTALS / IMMORTALS / TAIN BO FRAICH / THE RAID FOR THE CATTLE OF FRAECH; lines 9528-9700 | medium | Fraech comes to the dun; hosts welcome him as if born among men from an unknown world; Maev and Ailill confess fault, do penance, are pardoned, and make peace. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | ENDNOTES / PREPARERS NOTE / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION; lines 1108-1144 | low | The tract's scope includes the descent and relative dates of Homer and Hesiod, their poetical contest at Chalcis, Hesiod's death, and Homer's wanderings and fortunes down to his death. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE PRECEPTS OF CHIRON / THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY; lines 3012-3099 | high | Obriareus, Cottus, and Gyes are bound in cruel bonds by their father and made to dwell beneath the earth at its borders in grief. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE PRECEPTS OF CHIRON / THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY; lines 3293-3404 | medium | Heracles completes grievous toils, marries Hebe on Olympus, and lives among the undying gods untroubled and unageing. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | DOUBTFUL FRAGMENTS / THE HOMERIC HYMNS / I. TO DIONYSUS 2501 / II. TO DEMETER; lines 5445-5542 | medium | Zeus sends Hermes with a golden wand to Erebus to persuade Hades and lead Persephone from misty gloom to light; Hermes finds Hades with reluctant Persephone, who yearns for Demeter. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | DOUBTFUL FRAGMENTS / THE HOMERIC HYMNS / I. TO DIONYSUS 2501 / II. TO DEMETER; lines 5544-5635 | high | Demeter and Persephone embrace; Demeter asks whether Persephone tasted food below and explains that if she did, she must dwell beneath the earth for a third part of each year and return above when spring flowers bloom. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | XXXI. TO HELIOS / XXXII. TO SELENE / XXXIII. TO THE DIOSCURI / HOMERS EPIGRAMS2601; lines 7571-7583 | medium | “I come, and I come yearly, like the swallow that perches light-footed in the fore-part of your house. But quickly bring....” | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE EPIGONI / THE CYPRIA / THE AETHIOPIS / THE LITTLE ILIAD; lines 7964-8081 | medium | Odysseus catches Helenus, who prophesies about taking Troy; Diomede brings Philoctetes from Lemnos; Machaon heals Philoctetes, who kills Alexandrus; Menelaus outrages the body and Trojans bury it. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | ENDNOTES / PREPARERS NOTE / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION; lines 816-912 | high | The Returns is summarized as beginning where the Sack of Troy ends and telling of Agamemnon and Menelaus' dispute, Menelaus' departure, lesser heroes' fortunes, Agamemnon's return and death, Orestes' vengeance on Aegisthus, and Menelaus' return home. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE AETHIOPIS / THE LITTLE ILIAD / THE SACK OF ILIUM / THE RETURNS; lines 8170-8221 | high | Athena causes a quarrel between Agamemnon and Menelaus about the voyage from Troy; Agamemnon stays to appease Athena's anger. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE AETHIOPIS / THE LITTLE ILIAD / THE SACK OF ILIUM / THE RETURNS; lines 8170-8221 | high | Diomedes and Nestor sail and get home safely; Menelaus reaches Egypt with five ships after the rest are destroyed on the high seas. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE LITTLE ILIAD / THE SACK OF ILIUM / THE RETURNS / THE TELEGONY; lines 8224-8248 | high | Odysseus returns to Ithaca, performs sacrifices ordered by Teiresias, then goes to Thesprotis and marries Callidice, queen of the Thesprotians. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | ENDNOTES / PREPARERS NOTE / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION; lines 914-1008 | high | Zeus is forced to bring Persephone back from the lower world, but Hades contrives that she remains partly a lower-world deity; Demeter establishes the Eleusinian mysteries in memory of her sorrows. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE EMBASSY TO ACHILLES. / BOOK X. / ARGUMENT. / THE NIGHT-ADVENTURE OF DIOMED AND ULYSSES.; lines 10589-10688 | high | Minerva's voice tells Diomedes to stop further slaughter and return to the ships; Diomedes obeys, mounts, and Ulysses drives the swift white horses. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | CONCLUDING NOTE. / INTRODUCTION. / THEODORE ALOIS BUCKLEY. / POPES PREFACE TO THE ILIAD OF HOMER; lines 1303-1376 | medium | Fable is divided into probable, allegorical, and marvellous; probable fable includes actions that might have happened or that became fables through added episodes and narration. Examples include the return of Ulysses and Trojan settlement in Italy. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | JUNO DECEIVES JUPITER BY THE GIRDLE OF VENUS. / BOOK XV. / ARGUMENT. / THE FIFTH BATTLE AT THE SHIPS; AND THE ACTS OF AJAX.; lines 14667-14798 | medium | Patroclus tends wounded Eurypylus with balms and speech, sees the Trojan advance, and leaves to urge Achilles to return to battle. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE FIFTH BATTLE AT THE SHIPS; AND THE ACTS OF AJAX. / BOOK XVI. / ARGUMENT / THE SIXTH BATTLE, THE ACTS AND DEATH OF PATROCLUS; lines 15781-15909 | medium | The goddess advises a glorious death for Sarpedon, then commands that Sleep and Death carry his body to his native land for tomb, pyramid, honors to his ashes, and lasting fame. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE RECONCILIATION OF ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON. / BOOK XX. / ARGUMENT. / THE BATTLE OF THE GODS, AND THE ACTS OF ACHILLES.; lines 19044-19173 | high | Poseidon sees Aeneas near death and says fate does not will this; Jove preserves him as future father of the Dardan line, whose sons will continue it. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | POPES PREFACE TO THE ILIAD OF HOMER / THE ILIAD. / BOOK I. / THE CONTENTION OF ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON.; lines 2060-2206 | low | Inspired by Juno, Achilles convenes the Greeks, asks whether they should return by sea, and calls for a prophet, sacred sage, or dream to explain Apollo's rage and restore Greece by atonement and hecatombs. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | ARGUMENT. / BOOK XXIV. / ARGUMENT. / THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR.; lines 22976-23120 | medium | Priam and the herald rest in the porch; Hermes alone remains awake, considers how to get the king past ramparts and watch, warns Priam, and guides the mules silently through hostile land. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | ARGUMENT. / BOOK XXIV. / ARGUMENT. / THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR.; lines 22976-23120 | high | At Xanthus, Hermes leaves and flies to Olympus; Aurora brings day, and Priam and the herald proceed slowly to Ilion with the mournful load. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | BOOK XXIV. / ARGUMENT. / THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR. / CONCLUDING NOTE.; lines 23271-23326 | medium | Agamemnon, on his return, was murdered by gysthus at Clytemnestra's instigation after she had dishonoured his bed with gysthus. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | BOOK XXIV. / ARGUMENT. / THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR. / CONCLUDING NOTE.; lines 23271-23326 | high | Ulysses returned safely to Ithaca after innumerable troubles by sea and land; this is identified as the subject of Homer's Odyssey. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | BOOK XXIV. / ARGUMENT. / THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR. / CONCLUDING NOTE.; lines 23271-23326 | medium | Diomed was expelled after Troy's fall, barely escaped from his wife gial, was received by Daunus in Apulia, shared his kingdom, and has an uncertain death. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR. / CONCLUDING NOTE. / A. POPE / END OF THE ILIAD; lines 23583-23696 | high | The summary says an injured hero, moved by resentment toward his general, retires to his tent and withdraws himself and his troops from war; victory abandons the army during this interval. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR. / CONCLUDING NOTE. / A. POPE / END OF THE ILIAD; lines 23698-23815 | medium | The note discusses an annual Egyptian sacred-ship procession, the deity's return from Ethiopia, the sacred ship of Ammon, and an interpretation that Homer alludes to this in Jupiter's visit to the Ethiopians and twelve-day absence. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR. / CONCLUDING NOTE. / A. POPE / END OF THE ILIAD; lines 24168-24311 | medium | Antenor, like Aeneas, is said to have favored the restoration of Helen. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR. / CONCLUDING NOTE. / A. POPE / END OF THE ILIAD; lines 25331-25485 | medium | Neptune recounts that he spread a cloud before the victor's sight, sustained Aeneas, and secured his flight. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE CONTENTION OF ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON. / BOOK II. / ARGUMENT. / THE TRIAL OF THE ARMY, AND CATALOGUE OF THE FORCES.; lines 3770-3911 | medium | Achilles leads fifty ships of related Thessalian groups, but his troops are inactive by the shore because Briseis was taken from him; the passage anticipates his later return to battle. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE SECOND BATTLE, AND THE DISTRESS OF THE GREEKS. / BOOK IX. / ARGUMENT. / THE EMBASSY TO ACHILLES.; lines 9283-9389 | medium | Ulysses praises Achilles' hospitality but says the Greeks mourn the dead, fear for the living, stand at fate's brink, and have no help but Achilles' hands. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE SECOND BATTLE, AND THE DISTRESS OF THE GREEKS. / BOOK IX. / ARGUMENT. / THE EMBASSY TO ACHILLES.; lines 9477-9612 | high | Achilles says the next day they will implore the gods, his departing vessels will sound on the Hellespont, and Pythia will receive him if Neptune sends favorable gales. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE EMBASSY TO ACHILLES. / BOOK X. / ARGUMENT. / THE NIGHT-ADVENTURE OF DIOMED AND ULYSSES.; lines 9928-10052 | medium | After Achilles refuses to return, Agamemnon is distressed; leaders are awakened; a council sends scouts; Diomed chooses Ulysses; they surprise Dolon, learn enemy positions, kill Rhesus and officers, seize horses, and return. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | JAPANESE FAIRY TALES / MY LORD BAG OF RICE / THE TONGUE-CUT SPARROW / THE STORY OF URASHIMA TARO, THE FISHER LAD; lines 1101-1205 | high | The tortoise brings Urashima into the familiar bay and to the shore from which he left, then returns to the Sea King’s realm. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | MY LORD BAG OF RICE / THE TONGUE-CUT SPARROW / THE STORY OF URASHIMA TARO, THE FISHER LAD / THE FARMER AND THE BADGER; lines 1413-1523 | medium | The rabbit tells the old farmer that the badger has been killed; the farmer thanks him, says he can again sleep and eat, and invites the rabbit to share his home as a friend. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | THE TONGUE-CUT SPARROW / THE STORY OF URASHIMA TARO, THE FISHER LAD / THE FARMER AND THE BADGER / THE ADVENTURES OF KINTARO, THE GOLDEN BOY; lines 2154-2248 | medium | Prince Toyonari returns, hears the stepmother’s claim that Hase-Hime did wrong and ran away, becomes anxious, keeps the matter quiet, and searches without success. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | THE STORY OF URASHIMA TARO, THE FISHER LAD / THE FARMER AND THE BADGER / THE ADVENTURES OF KINTARO, THE GOLDEN BOY / THE STORY OF THE MAN WHO DID NOT WISH TO DIE; lines 2373-2477 | high | Sentaro prays to Jofuku; the paper crane emerges undamaged, grows large, and carries him across the sea toward Japan while he looks back with regret and cannot stop it. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | THE STORY OF URASHIMA TARO, THE FISHER LAD / THE FARMER AND THE BADGER / THE ADVENTURES OF KINTARO, THE GOLDEN BOY / THE STORY OF THE MAN WHO DID NOT WISH TO DIE; lines 2479-2525 | high | The messenger gives Sentaro a book of precepts intended to guide him in the advised way of life. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | COMPILED BY / PREFACE / JAPANESE FAIRY TALES / MY LORD BAG OF RICE; lines 262-377 | high | A more sumptuous feast is prepared; Hidesato insists on returning home, and the Dragon King asks him to accept gifts in gratitude for deliverance from the centipede. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | THE FARMER AND THE BADGER / THE ADVENTURES OF KINTARO, THE GOLDEN BOY / THE STORY OF THE MAN WHO DID NOT WISH TO DIE / THE BAMBOO-CUTTER AND THE MOON-CHILD; lines 2952-3060 | high | The Emperor leaves sadly, regards Princess Moonlight as uniquely beautiful, sends love poems, and receives verses saying she can never marry anyone on earth. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | THE FARMER AND THE BADGER / THE ADVENTURES OF KINTARO, THE GOLDEN BOY / THE STORY OF THE MAN WHO DID NOT WISH TO DIE / THE BAMBOO-CUTTER AND THE MOON-CHILD; lines 3178-3288 | medium | The husband returns after about a month of travel, sunburned by weather; wife and child recognize and greet him eagerly. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | THE BAMBOO-CUTTER AND THE MOON-CHILD / THE GOBLIN OF ADACHIGAHARA / THE SAGACIOUS MONKEY AND THE BOAR / THE HAPPY HUNTER AND THE SKILLFUL FISHER; lines 4336-4434 | high | The Happy Hunter wants to return to his kingdom and reconcile with the Skillful Fisher, but Ryn Jin and his daughters persuade him to stay in Ryn Gu; after three years he becomes homesick and asks permission to return because he governs Japan and must return the hook to his brother. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | THE BAMBOO-CUTTER AND THE MOON-CHILD / THE GOBLIN OF ADACHIGAHARA / THE SAGACIOUS MONKEY AND THE BOAR / THE HAPPY HUNTER AND THE SKILLFUL FISHER; lines 4436-4526 | high | Ryn Jin teaches the Happy Hunter how to use the two talismans, gives him the Jewel of the Flood Tide and Jewel of the Ebbing Tide, and the Sea King, Tayotama, Tamayori, and palace inhabitants say goodbye as he leaves. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | THE BAMBOO-CUTTER AND THE MOON-CHILD / THE GOBLIN OF ADACHIGAHARA / THE SAGACIOUS MONKEY AND THE BOAR / THE HAPPY HUNTER AND THE SKILLFUL FISHER; lines 4436-4526 | high | The Skillful Fisher had used the lost hook as an excuse to drive out his brother, usurped his place as ruler, and became powerful and rich; he is surprised by the Happy Hunter's return. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | PREFACE / JAPANESE FAIRY TALES / MY LORD BAG OF RICE / THE TONGUE-CUT SPARROW; lines 509-612 | medium | The old man reaches a bamboo wood, finds his sparrow waiting, hears her speak, sees that a new tongue has grown, and realizes she is a fairy rather than a common bird. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | THE JELLY FISH AND THE MONKEY / THE QUARREL OF THE MONKEY AND THE CRAB / THE WHITE HARE AND THE CROCODILES / THE STORY OF PRINCE YAMATO TAKE; lines 5813-5924 | high | When Yamato Take returns to the capital, the King praises him, holds a palace feast, gives rare gifts, and loves him more than ever. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | THE JELLY FISH AND THE MONKEY / THE QUARREL OF THE MONKEY AND THE CRAB / THE WHITE HARE AND THE CROCODILES / THE STORY OF PRINCE YAMATO TAKE; lines 6128-6233 | medium | Yamato Take returns to the temples of Ise; his aunt, the shrine priestess, welcomes him, hears his account, praises him, and gives thanks to the ancestral Sun Goddess Amaterasu for his preservation. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | THE QUARREL OF THE MONKEY AND THE CRAB / THE WHITE HARE AND THE CROCODILES / THE STORY OF PRINCE YAMATO TAKE / MOMOTARO, OR THE STORY OF THE SON OF A PEACH; lines 6647-6752 | high | The dog and pheasant carry home the plunder, and Momotaro returns triumphantly with the devil chief as a captive. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | JAPANESE FAIRY TALES / MY LORD BAG OF RICE / THE TONGUE-CUT SPARROW / THE STORY OF URASHIMA TARO, THE FISHER LAD; lines 983-1099 | high | Urashima's happiness makes him forget home, parents, and country for three days; then he remembers he does not belong there and must return to his old father and mother. | record |
| Buddhist | Jataka tales | THE QUARREL OF THE QUAILS / THE MEASURE OF RICE / THE FOOLISH, TIMID RABBIT / THE WISE AND THE FOOLISH MERCHANT; lines 1075-1086 | medium | Early the next day, the merchant takes the best wagons left by the foolish merchant and goes safely to the city across the desert. | record |
| Buddhist | Jataka tales | THE WISE AND THE FOOLISH MERCHANT / THE ELEPHANT GIRLY-FACE / THE BANYAN DEER / THE PRINCES AND THE WATER-SPRITE; lines 1228-1339 | high | The three princes live in the forest until the king dies, then return to the palace; the eldest is made king, has his brothers rule with him, and builds a home for the water-sprite in the palace grounds. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | DR. J.D. BUCK, / AN ENCOURAGING AND UNSELFISH FRIEND, AND TO HIS AFFECTIONATE FAMILY, / THESE PAGES ARE GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED. / PREFACE; lines 1056-1128 | low | In the Finnish excerpt, Louhi of Pohjola asks Wainamoinen what he will give if she brings him to his own lands and home precinct. Wainamoinen asks what she wants. Louhi calls him wise and asks whether he can forge the Sampo with a decorated lid from a swan feather, wool, a barley grain, and a spindle fragment. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 11136-11308 | medium | Kalevatar brings the splinter to Kapo; Kapo rubs hands and knees together, produces a snow-white squirrel, and instructs it to go to Metsola and Tapio's seat, avoid the eagle, and bring fir cones and pine seedlings for beer. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 12401-12581 | low | The ancient maid repeatedly commands the bride to weep rivers, floods, and lakelets of tears, warning that otherwise she will later weep when returning to see father, mother, brother, and sister in distressed or diminished conditions. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 13318-13509 | high | The speaker says farewell to her husband’s home and journeys toward her father’s distant hamlet and siblings’ places, crossing swamps, snow-fields, mountains, hills, and valleys. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 13867-14042 | medium | The speaker imagines returning to tribe-folk but calling at her mother's grave-stone and weeping over her buried father, whose graves bear flowers, junipers, willows, and verdure. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 14045-14234 | high | At Ilmarinen's home, watchers wait from portals, windows, gates, walls, and shore for the blacksmith to arrive with his bride from Sariola. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 14560-14736 | medium | Wainamoinen goes to Mana's empire and Tuoni's kingdom, crosses the sable stream of Deathland, reaches Manala's castles, finds Tuoni's auger, and brings it back safely. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 16009-16141 | high | Lemminkainen changes form and body, becomes a mighty eagle, flies on magic wings, tries to reach the highest heaven, and is burned or singed by moonlight and sunshine. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 16143-16329 | high | She calls the island a good dwelling place and tells him to hide one year and a second, then return in the third to the family dwelling. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 16516-16685 | high | He spends three summers in refuge on the island among the maidens; one poor and graceless spinster in the remotest small hamlet is left neglected. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 16516-16685 | medium | The maidens weep and ask why he leaves; he answers that he does not leave from lack of pleasure or women, but from longing for homeland, mother’s cabins, Northland berries, Kalew, and childhood companions. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 16687-16864 | medium | Ahti swims ashore, goes to a magic castle, finds a hostess baking and daughters kneading barley, and asks for beer, food, and a meal to still hunger and thirst after swimming in the ocean. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 16687-16864 | high | Lemminkainen sails until he reaches his home country, sees familiar islands, capes, rivers, shipping stations, landmarks, mountains, firs, pines, and willows, but does not see his father's cottage or mother's dwellings. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 16866-17047 | medium | Lemminkainen rejoices to find his mother living and says he had thought she had gone to Tuoni or the islands of the blessed, slain by enemies. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 17994-18184 | medium | At evening and twilight the speaker asks that lowing cattle be sent home with milk and water; the herd is addressed to go to Ilmarinen's sheds, the waiting hostess, and milkmaids, since forest beds are dangerous and fires light the path. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 18361-18545 | medium | As evening comes, Kullerwoinen drives the wolves and bears toward the hostess's milk-yards and commands them to tear and kill the hostess when she comes to view and milk the cattle. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 18735-18931 | high | Kullervo repeats his revenge purpose; the gray-haired woman answers that his tribe has not perished and that his mother and father live with old Kalervo in Northland. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 18933-19124 | medium | Kullervo, described in purple vestments, magic deer-skin shoes, and golden locks, pays the tribute, takes his place in a snow-sledge, and begins the homeward journey. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 19478-19651 | high | Kullervo returns to his homeland and father's cabin; the cabin and forests are empty, the oven and hearth cold, boats absent, and fish-nets torn, leading him to conclude that mother, sister, brother, and father have died. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 20915-21098 | high | A blind gray-beard wakes, complains that the playing harms his ears, brain, senses, and sleep, and advises casting the harp into the waters or returning it to its maker. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 21294-21487 | medium | Wainamoinen brings Ilmarinen, Lemminkainen, and the Sampo from the stone-berg and copper-bearing mountain, hiding it in the war-ship of Wainola. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 21489-21680 | medium | After days of steering, Lemminkainen asks why Wainamoinen will not sing now that the Sampo and its colored lid have been captured; Wainamoinen says songs of joy should wait until the homeland is reached. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 22843-23030 | medium | In snowy conditions Wainamoinen sings of going to Metsola and the forest maidens; he invokes Tapio and Mielikki/Tellervo to aid him and restrain dogs and hunters. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 23211-23370 | medium | Wainamoinen tells Otso, honey-eater and forest treasure, to journey from his lonely dwelling through paths near cattle and swine to forested hills, high mountains, spruce needles, and pine branches, remaining in lasting slumber where silver bells ring. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 23935-24126 | high | The Sun-child receives a silver-edged, golden-headed magic fish-knife from heaven and carves the Fire-pike, revealing nested fish, colored balls, and the fire fallen from the seventh heaven through nine ether regions. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 24128-24317 | high | The alder answers that the Sun and golden Moon are hidden or sleeping in the stone-berg and copper-bearing mountain of Pohyola; Wainamoinen says he will go to Northland and bring them back. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 24521-24719 | high | Ilmarinen tells the eagle he is forging a collar for Louhi, called the stealer of silver sunshine and golden moonlight, to bind her to an iron-rock. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 24923-25115 | high | The child vanishes while Mariatta sleeps; she weeps and searches under objects and throughout terrain and vegetation, including mountains, valleys, thickets, juniper, willow, and alder. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 25117-25220 | high | Wainamoinen sings that future generations in Suomi may learn his teachings and need his coming to bring back the Sampo, the harp, golden moonlight, silver sunshine, peace, and plenty. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 2573-2756 | medium | Aino throws away the gold cross, removes jewels, necklace, and ribbons, casts them into forest ferns and flowers, and hastens to her mother's cottage. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 4073-4266 | high | Wainamoinen says folly brought him to a strange land away from his honored home; he identifies himself as an honored minstrel and magician in Wainola and Kalevala. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 4268-4457 | medium | Wainamoinen drives quickly and happily homeward from the ever-darksome Northland and dismal Sariola. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 5211-5401 | high | Wainamoinen hitches a copper-colored steed to a snow-sledge, travels for three days through fen, forest, hills, valleys, marshes, mountains, plains, and meadows, reaches Osmo and Kalevala, and speaks against the one who said he would never return home. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 5598-5794 | high | Ilmarinen is dejected and wishes to return home; Louhi feeds him, sets him in a copper-banded vessel, calls winds to help, and the North-wind guides him over water to Wainola and Kalevala by the third evening. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 6169-6366 | medium | Lemminkainen joyfully drives his racer from Sahri, bids farewell to Sahri landscapes, and heads toward Wainola and Kalevala with Kyllikki. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 8385-8568 | medium | The mother tells him to let the swan swim safely, leave the maiden, go home, and praise Ukko, who saved him and can revive and protect from Manala and Tuoni. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 8765-8952 | high | Mana's daughter brings a boat to Wainamoinen, rows him over the black fatal river to Manala, and says he comes neither dead nor dying. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 9139-9326 | high | The demon is ordered to leave, go to its kindred and country, signal arrival with thunder and lightning, enter by portals and windows, and seize the host and hostess. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 13568-13695 | medium | Joseph sends his shirt to be thrown on Jacob's face so that sight will return; Jacob perceives Joseph's smell before the messenger arrives; the shirt is cast on his face and his eyesight returns. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 14115-14251 | medium | "Give him suck; and if thou fearest for him, launch him on the sea; and fear not, neither fret; for we will restore him to thee, and make him one of the apostles." | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 16572-16682 | high | They confess wrongdoing and seek forgiveness; they are sent down to earth to dwell for a season, live, die, and be taken forth. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 17719-17848 | high | "He had imposed mercy on Himself as a law. He will surely assemble you on the Resurrection day" | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 18329-18469 | high | The passage says no soul labours except for itself, no burdened one bears another's burden, and all return to the Lord, who will declare what they differed about. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 1841-2018 | medium | The Prophet is told not to be like the one in the fish who cried to God in deep distress; divine favor prevented him from being cast on the naked shore in shame, and his Lord chose him as just. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 18733-18863 | high | The passage asks how people can withhold faith when they were dead and God gave life, will cause death, restore life, and receive their return; God created all on earth and fashioned heaven into seven heavens. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 19223-19345 | medium | The patient say, “Verily we are God’s, and to Him shall we return,” and receive blessings, mercy, and guidance. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 20275-20431 | high | All in heaven and earth praise God; God has kingdom, glory, and power, created people, created heavens and earth in truth, fashioned humans, knows what is hidden and manifest, and all return to Him. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 21366-21498 | medium | The passage warns against disbelief after belief, assigns curse, torment, and lack of aid, excepts those who repent and amend, and rejects an earth-filling gold ransom from those dying as infidels. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 21500-21622 | low | Muhammad is no more than an apostle; other apostles passed away before him. If he dies or is slain, the audience must not turn upon their heels; no one dies except by God's permission and a fixed Book. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 21851-21964 | high | The note says Muhammad probably believed that God took Jesus’s dead body to heaven while the Jews crucified a man who resembled him, and discusses Qur'anic wording about God causing to die or taking to himself. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 24722-24835 | medium | Unbelievers keep the believers from the sacred Mosque and prevent the offering from reaching the place of sacrifice; hidden believing men and women are cited as a reason for restraint of punishment. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 24973-25111 | low | When the help of God and victory arrive and men enter God's religion by troops, the addressee is told to praise the Lord and implore pardon. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 25595-25711 | medium | God turns toward the Prophet, the Mohadjers, and the Ansars who followed him in the hour of distress after some hearts almost failed. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 3210-3455 | medium | "Oh, thou soul which art at rest, / Return to thy Lord... / And enter thou my Paradise." | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 519-571 | medium | The passage lists later events: treaties with Christian tribes, imperfect acquaintance with Christian doctrines, battles, siege of Medina, convention on pilgrimage, embassies to rulers, conquests of Jewish tribes, pilgrimage to Mecca, triumphant entry into Mecca, demolition of the idols of the Caaba, submissions by several regions, and the final pilgrimage. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 9358-9506 | medium | The passage says this religion is one religion under one Lord; people have divided the matter into sects, and all will return to God. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER II. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER III. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 11148-11218 | medium | Jesus, after the crucifixion in effigy, is said to return to earth to comfort his mother and disciples, tell them the Jews were deceived, and then ascend again. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER II. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER III. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 11298-11387 | medium | The passage asks whether another religion than God's is sought, since all in heaven or on earth are resigned to him, voluntarily or by force, and shall return to him. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER II. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER III. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 11536-11628 | high | The passage says God's signs are recited with truth, God is not unjust, all things belong and return to God, and the best nation commands justice, forbids injustice, and believes in God; scripture-receivers include believers and transgressors. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER III. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER IV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD; lines 13465-13556 | medium | Notes report multiple views of Jesus' crucifixion and ascent, including substitution, being taken up into heaven, and a distinction between suffering manhood and ascending godhead. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER VI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER VII / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 16058-16128 | medium | Hud says the admonition comes through a man from among them, reminds them they were appointed successors to Noah's people, and says their stature was enlarged. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER VI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER VII / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 16587-16682 | medium | The weakened people inherit blessed eastern and western lands; the LORD's gracious word is fulfilled for their patience; Pharaoh's structures and erections are destroyed. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | A TABLE OF THE CHAPTERS / THE KORAN. / PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE / SECTION I.; lines 1673-1723 | medium | Besides named idols, many others are mentioned; every housekeeper has household god or gods, saluted when going abroad and returning home. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER IX. / CHAPTER X. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 18846-18933 | high | All return to God; God produces a creature and causes it to return; believers are rewarded and unbelievers drink boiling water and suffer punishment. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER IX. / CHAPTER X. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 19081-19143 | high | Whether the addressed figure sees part of the threatened punishment or dies before it, the people return to God, and God witnesses what they do. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 20718-20799 | medium | The brothers report to their father that his son committed theft and urge inquiry; Jacob suspects contrivance, chooses patience, and hopes God will restore all of them. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 20718-20799 | high | Joseph asks what they did to Joseph and his brother, identifies himself, and says God has been gracious and rewards those who fear God and persevere. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 20884-20904 | medium | When Moses leads the Israelites out of Egypt, he takes up the coffin, carries Joseph’s bones into Canaan, and buries them by his ancestors. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 21077-21165 | medium | The divine speaker says the messenger has been sent to a nation to rehearse revelation; the confession states trust in the Lord and return to him. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XXVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 28042-28140 | medium | Pharaoh lifts himself up in Egypt, divides his subjects, weakens one party, slays their male children, preserves females alive, and is called an oppressor. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XXVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 28211-28268 | medium | Moses comes to Shoaib, tells his adventures, and Shoaib says he has escaped from unjust people and should not fear. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XXVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 28435-28525 | medium | The passage says that the one who gave the Koran as a rule will bring the addressed recipient back home to Mecca, and that God knows who has true direction and who is in manifest error. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XXIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 28835-28914 | low | The historical note describes Khosru Parviz’s long war against the Greek empire, Persian conquest of Syria and Palestine, the taking of Jerusalem, and later siege of Constantinople. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | ENTITLED, Y. S.; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 31215-31300 | medium | Jonas is said to be one of those sent by God; he flees into a loaded ship, those on board cast lots, he is condemned, and the fish swallows him because he is worthy of reprehension. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XLI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XLII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 32814-32849 | medium | Those who behold prepared punishment ask whether there is any way to return back into the world. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XLII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XLIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 33035-33129 | medium | Notes identify Jesus's miraculous birth without a father and describe the Muslim expectation that Jesus descends before the resurrection with a lance to kill Antichrist. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER L. / ENTITLED, K; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 34275-34337 | high | The passage says God gives life and causes death, all creatures return to God, the earth suddenly cleaves over them, and the assembly is easy for God to assemble. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | ENTITLED, THE INEVITABLE; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 35323-35422 | medium | The passage says the kingdom of heavens and earth belongs to God, all things return to God, God causes night and day to succeed each other, and God knows the innermost part of people’s breasts. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | ENTITLED, THOSE WHO GIVE SHORT MEASURE OR WEIGHT; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXXXIV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 38132-38188 | medium | The condemned one rejoiced insolently among his earthly family, thought he would never return to God, and yet his Lord beheld him. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER LXXXVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXXXIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 38412-38514 | medium | “O thou soul which art at rest, return unto thy LORD... enter among my servants; and enter my paradise.” | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4172-4219 | high | Jesus descends near a white tower east of Damascus, embraces the Mohammedan religion, marries, has children, kills Antichrist, later dies, and presides over security, plenty, peace among animals, and harmless serpents. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4222-4265 | high | Signs listed include the Euphrates revealing gold and silver, demolition of the Caaba by Ethiopians, speaking beasts and inanimate things, fire in Hejz or Yaman, a descendant of Kahtan driving men with a staff, and the coming of the Mohdi. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION VI. / OF THE INSTITUTIONS OF THE KORAN IN CIVIL AFFAIRS. / SECTION VII. / SECTION VIII.; lines 8205-8254 | high | Some groups are said to maintain that Ali or one of his descendants was not dead, would return again in the clouds, and would fill the earth with justice. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION VI. / OF THE INSTITUTIONS OF THE KORAN IN CIVIL AFFAIRS. / SECTION VII. / SECTION VIII.; lines 8413-8461 | high | Under siege, he gives poisoned wine to those with him, burns bodies and supplies, destroys himself by fire or corrosive liquid so his body is not found, and one hidden concubine survives to reveal the matter. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER I. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD / CHAPTER II. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 8935-9023 | medium | Adam is said to fall on Ceylon and Eve near Joddah; after two hundred years Adam repents and Gabriel guides him to a mountain near Mecca where he finds Eve, after which they retire to Ceylon. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER I. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD / CHAPTER II. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 9675-9772 | high | The patient say, “We are GOD'S and unto him shall we surely return”; blessings and mercy are upon them. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | CONTENTS / INTRODUCTION / C. E. G. / THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN; lines 1179-1240 | high | Owain returns with Luned to the Countess of the Fountain's dominions, takes the Countess to Arthur's court, and she remains his wife as long as she lives. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | INTRODUCTION / C. E. G. / THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN / PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC; lines 1348-1429 | medium | Peredur refuses to return, tells Owain to take the goblet to Gwenhwyvar, declares he will be Arthur's vassal wherever he is, and says he will not come to court until he has encountered Kai to avenge the dwarf and dwarfess. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | INTRODUCTION / C. E. G. / THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN / PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC; lines 1431-1452 | medium | Peredur and the knight fight; Peredur overthrows him. The knight asks mercy. Peredur grants it if he swears to go to Arthur's court, report that Peredur overthrew him for the honour of Arthur's service, and say that Peredur will not come to court until he has avenged the insult to the dwarf and dwarfess. The knight pledges and carries the message and threat to Kai. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | THE MABINOGION / TRANSLATED BY LADY CHARLOTTE GUEST / CONTENTS / INTRODUCTION; lines 173-243 | low | Both classes are said to be Welsh-rooted, but the later class probably migrated from Wales, returned, and was re-translated after centuries with Norman additions. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | INTRODUCTION / C. E. G. / THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN / PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC; lines 1943-2000 | medium | Peredur is called the Dumb Youth. Angharad Law Eurawc says she loves him despite his inability to speak; Peredur answers that he loves her too. He is then known to be Peredur and remains in Arthur's court in fellowship with Gwalchmai, Owain son of Urien, and the household. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | INTRODUCTION / C. E. G. / THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN / PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC; lines 2359-2434 | medium | A hoary-headed man rebukes the maiden, sixty armed men ascend the tower, Gwalchmai blocks the door with a chessboard, and the old man accuses him before the Earl of slaying the Earl's father; the Earl grants him a year's delay to complete Arthur's embassy and return. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | C. E. G. / THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN / PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC / GERAINT THE SON OF ERBIN; lines 2930-3016 | high | Gwenhwyvar counsels Arthur not to give away the stag's head until Geraint returns from his errand, and Arthur agrees. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | C. E. G. / THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN / PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC / GERAINT THE SON OF ERBIN; lines 3185-3261 | high | The court and country rejoice over Geraint because of love for him, his fame, and his coming to take possession of his dominions and preserve his boundaries. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | C. E. G. / THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN / PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC / GERAINT THE SON OF ERBIN; lines 4967-5059 | medium | The envoys report Mabon's prison to Arthur; Arthur summons warriors to Gloucester, the castle is attacked, Kai breaks into the dungeon and carries Mabon away, and Arthur returns home with Mabon at liberty. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | C. E. G. / THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN / PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC / GERAINT THE SON OF ERBIN; lines 5165-5254 | medium | Arthur asks Odgar for Diwrnach Wyddel's cauldron; Odgar commands Diwrnach to give it, but Diwrnach refuses, and Arthur travels to Ireland in Prydwen. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC / GERAINT THE SON OF ERBIN / THE DREAM OF RHONABWY / PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED; lines 6161-6214 | low | Rhiannon tells Pwyll to return after a year with the bag, station his hundred knights in the orchard, enter alone in ragged garments, ask for a bagful of food, and rely on the bag not becoming full even with the meat and liquor of the seven Cantrevs. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC / GERAINT THE SON OF ERBIN / THE DREAM OF RHONABWY / PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED; lines 6394-6481 | high | Teirnyon hears of Rhiannon's punishment, sees the boy's likeness to Pwyll, feels wrong in keeping another man's son, and with his wife decides to send him to Pwyll. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC / GERAINT THE SON OF ERBIN / THE DREAM OF RHONABWY / PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED; lines 7208-7299 | medium | Manawyddan says they should not remain because they have lost their dogs and cannot get food; he and Kicva go to Lloegyr, where he chooses shoemaking as his craft. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC / GERAINT THE SON OF ERBIN / THE DREAM OF RHONABWY / PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED; lines 7379-7482 | medium | The captor says he will release the mouse only if Rhiannon and Pryderi are freed and the charm and illusion are removed from the seven Cantrevs of Dyved. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | CONTENTS / INTRODUCTION / C. E. G. / THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN; lines 799-896 | high | Arthur is sorrowful over Owain’s three-year absence; Gwalchmai advises taking the household to avenge, free, or recover Owain; Arthur departs with three thousand men and Kynon as guide. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC / GERAINT THE SON OF ERBIN / THE DREAM OF RHONABWY / PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED; lines 8058-8139 | high | The eagle descends in the oak as Gwydion sings verses naming the oak and saying that it bears Llew Llaw Gyffes. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC / GERAINT THE SON OF ERBIN / THE DREAM OF RHONABWY / PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED; lines 8058-8139 | medium | Llew asks Math for retribution for his woe; Math says the offender cannot keep possession of what is Llew's right. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | GERAINT THE SON OF ERBIN / THE DREAM OF RHONABWY / PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED / THE DREAM OF MAXEN WLEDIG; lines 8240-8329 | high | The emperor tells the wise men of Rome that he saw a maiden in a dream and has no life, spirit, or existence because of her; they advise sending messengers for three years to the three parts of the world to seek the dream. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | GERAINT THE SON OF ERBIN / THE DREAM OF RHONABWY / PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED / THE DREAM OF MAXEN WLEDIG; lines 8331-8429 | medium | Maxen stays in Britain seven years; Roman custom says an emperor who remains abroad more than seven years does so to his overthrow and will not return to Rome. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | CONTENTS / INTRODUCTION / C. E. G. / THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN; lines 898-994 | high | Owain asks Arthur to stay for a banquet prepared for three years; the banquet is consumed in three months. The Countess of the Fountain permits Owain to go with Arthur for three months, but he remains in Britain for three years. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED / THE DREAM OF MAXEN WLEDIG / HERE IS THE STORY OF LLUDD AND LLEVELYS / TALIESIN; lines 9042-9221 | medium | Taliesin sings that Elphin is troubled in Teganwy, secured by thirteen locks, chains, fetters, and a golden fetter, and that Taliesin will loosen him. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED / THE DREAM OF MAXEN WLEDIG / HERE IS THE STORY OF LLUDD AND LLEVELYS / TALIESIN; lines 9358-9546 | high | The poem prophesies misery for Troia's race; a proud, merciless coiling serpent with golden wings comes from Germany and overruns England and Scotland; the Brython are swayed by strangers from Saxony and lose land except Walia. | record |
| Hindu | Maha-bharata | BOOK III / RAJASUYA / BOOK IV / DYUTA; lines 1936-2080 | medium | Vidura blesses the Pandavas, contrasts wicked gain with sinless sorrow, praises Yudhishthir's duty, Arjun's war skill, Bhima's battle fortune, the Twins' wisdom, and Draupadi's faithfulness, and foretells a greater empire after their fall. | record |
| Hindu | Maha-bharata | BOOK IV / DYUTA / BOOK V / PATIVRATA-MAHATMYA; lines 2712-2852 | high | Savitri keeps following; Yama asks her wish; she asks that the royal line continue through Satyavan's and Savitri's sons; Yama grants that Satyavan shall live again and their children shall reign. | record |
| Hindu | Maha-bharata | BOOK IV / DYUTA / BOOK V / PATIVRATA-MAHATMYA; lines 2712-2852 | medium | Savitri notes the deepening night, anxious parents, forest sounds, prowlers, a distant forest-fire, and suggests making a light with a burning faggot or resting by fire if Satyavan is weak. | record |
| Hindu | Maha-bharata | BOOK V / PATIVRATA-MAHATMYA / BOOK VI / GO-HARANA; lines 3139-3283 | medium | "In thy father's court disguised lives Yudhishthir just and good"; Arjun also names Bhima, Nakula, Sahadeva, Draupadi, and himself under disguise. | record |
| Hindu | Maha-bharata | BOOK VI / GO-HARANA / BOOK VII / UDYOGA; lines 3377-3529 | high | Yudhishthir’s banishment has ended; he demands restoration of Indra-prastha; elders advise restoration; Duryodhan refuses; both sides prepare for battle. | record |
| Hindu | Maha-bharata | BOOK VI / GO-HARANA / BOOK VII / UDYOGA; lines 3531-3676 | high | Yudhishthir surrendered empire, lived in forests, completed exile and concealment, and now claims Indra-prastha's throne. | record |
| Hindu | Maha-bharata | BOOK VI / GO-HARANA / BOOK VII / UDYOGA; lines 3678-3819 | high | Pandu's sons say they lived in pathless jungle, wandered from land to land, and remained true to their promise to Dhrita-rashtra. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE. / VIII. / XIII.; lines 14302-14405 | high | “’Tis only he returns, who comes back to his home. Our true return’s from severance to union’s dome.” | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | XIII. / XVII. / THE END. / FOOTNOTES:; lines 15425-15637 | high | Jesus is said not to have been crucified but to have been caught up to the fourth heaven, that of the sun, until he comes again in glory. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | THE ACTS OF THE ADEPTS / CHAPTER I. / CHAPTER II. / CHAPTER III.; lines 2177-2298 | medium | The recovered Firengī prince invites the merchant to ask a wish; the merchant asks freedom and return to his teacher, recounts disobedience, vision, and Jelāl’s help, and the Firengī audience becomes believers in Jelāl without seeing him. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | THE ACTS OF THE ADEPTS / CHAPTER I. / CHAPTER II. / CHAPTER III.; lines 2823-2930 | high | Jelāl says the human spirit is freed from the cage and dungeon of the body, flies to its source and the Eternal, and that a saint's death is like a prisoner released from a dungeon, making rejoicing proper. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | THE ACTS OF THE ADEPTS / CHAPTER I. / CHAPTER II. / CHAPTER III.; lines 2823-2930 | high | The young man recounts falling asleep in the Arabian desert, being left by the caravan, waking alone in trackless sands, and wandering exhausted. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | THE ACTS OF THE ADEPTS / CHAPTER I. / CHAPTER II. / CHAPTER III.; lines 3284-3402 | medium | Abū-Bekr gives all his possessions for God’s cause after hearing the prophecy; after Muhammad’s death, the Prophet appears to console him and promises to reappear from one of Abū-Bekr’s race. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | THE ACTS OF THE ADEPTS / CHAPTER I. / CHAPTER II. / CHAPTER III.; lines 3894-3997 | medium | Sultan Veled relates that Kirā Khātūn saw the departed saint’s spirit, winged as a seraph, poised over Sultan Veled’s head to watch over him. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | JAMES W. REDHOUSE, M.R.A.S., ETC. / CONTENTS. / INTRODUCTION.--PLAINT OF THE REED-FLUTE 1 / CONCLUSION 289; lines 414-462 | medium | The passage says saved souls are emanations from divine Light or Glory of God and will be congregated there again, while souls doomed to perdition are formed from the Fire of God's wrath and will be consigned to it. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | CHAPTER I. / CHAPTER II. / CHAPTER III. / CHAPTER IV.; lines 4279-4412 | medium | Jelāl sends Sultan Veled to Damascus; he finds Shemsu-’d-Dīn in an inn playing backgammon with a young Firengī saint, brings him back to Qonya, and Jelāl embraces him with renewed devotion. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | CHAPTER III. / CHAPTER IV. / CHAPTER V. / CHAPTER VI.; lines 4500-4638 | low | Jelāl begins an anecdote about Abū-’l-Lays of Samarqand, who travels about twenty years for study, partly at Mekka, returns home, goes to the riverside for ablution, and is recognized by an old woman among laundry workers. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | OF QONYA. / PREFACE. / IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE.; lines 5384-5512 | high | The reed-flute says it was torn from the jungle-bed, makes men's and women's eyes weep, and says one snatched from home longs to return. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | OF QONYA. / PREFACE. / IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE.; lines 7356-7472 | medium | Water in a tank is gradually absorbed by air and restored to its source; likewise human breath steals the soul from the clay house in words of praise ascending to God’s throne. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | OF QONYA. / PREFACE. / IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE.; lines 7999-8095 | medium | Words and sounds are compared to waves arising from the sea of thought; existence takes form from formlessness and returns; Ahmed is cited on life’s transience, and thoughts are said to be shot by God. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | OF QONYA. / PREFACE. / IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE.; lines 9210-9302 | high | Talents and thoughts return after sleep and at dawn; carrier pigeons return home; all things revert to their source, and parts return toward the whole. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | OF QONYA. / PREFACE. / IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE.; lines 9720-9766 | medium | The speaker says the words come from the supreme Spirit; perfume before flowers and imagined fermentation before wine become images of hope drawing souls toward paradise where rivers flow. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE SEVENTH.; lines 10726-10814 | high | A watchful crested dragon with three tongues and hooked teeth guards the Golden Fleece; the hero sprinkles it with Lethean herbs, repeats sleep words three times, makes it sleep, gains the gold, and arrives victorious at Iolcos with his wife. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 12482-12529 | medium | The explanation summarizes Cephalus' love of hunting and Aurora, Procris' reported affair with Pteleon, her flight to Minos, Minos' love, Pasiphaë's hostility and poison, Procris' return to Thoricus, reconciliation with Cephalus, and gift of the dog and javelin. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | BOOK IV. / BOOK V. / BOOK VI. / BOOK VII.; lines 379-400 | medium | Minos interrupts Ægeus's joy at his son's return and wages war against him. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 5506-5562 | low | The passage states that the boy is Bacchus; he speaks as if waking from sleep and wine and asks what the sailors are doing, how he came there, and where they intend to carry him. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 8626-8716 | high | The explanatory heading summarizes Ceres’s search, Arethusa’s information, Jupiter’s condition for return, Proserpine’s pomegranate seeds, Ascalaphus’s owl transformation, the Sirens’ wings, and the six-month division between earth and the Infernal Regions. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 8626-8716 | medium | The explanatory heading summarizes Ceres’s search, Arethusa’s information, Jupiter’s condition for return, Proserpine’s pomegranate seeds, Ascalaphus’s owl transformation, the Sirens’ wings, and the six-month division between earth and the Infernal Regions. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 8718-8819 | high | Ceres is resolved to fetch away her daughter, but the Fates do not allow it because the damsel has broken her fast. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | BOOK THE FOURTEENTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 10710-10786 | high | While the Sibyl speaks during the steep ascent, Æneas emerges from the Stygian abodes to the Eubœan city; after sacrifice he approaches the shore not yet named after his nurse. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE FIFTEENTH. / EXPLANATION.; lines 12563-12665 | medium | Helenus tells Aeneas: Troy shall not entirely fall if he is preserved; flames and sword will afford passage; he will bear ruined Pergamus to foreign soil. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | BOOK X. / BOOK XI. / BOOK XII. / BOOK XIII.; lines 357-370 | medium | Æneas flees from Troy, visits Anius, whose daughters have been changed into doves, and reaches Sicily after touching at places marked by transformations. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE TENTH.; lines 3955-4038 | high | Orpheus receives Eurydice together with the condition that he must not turn his eyes back until he has passed the Avernian valleys, or the grant will be revoked. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE TENTH.; lines 4040-4101 | high | Orpheus is amazed at the twofold death of his wife. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 6347-6418 | medium | Peleus is happy in wife and son except for killing Phocus; banished, he comes to Trachin, approaches Ceyx with symbols of peace, conceals his crime, asks for refuge, and is welcomed by the grieving ruler. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 7108-7175 | high | Persons engaged in burial were considered polluted and excluded from temples until purification; Greeks purified returned persons previously thought dead by swaddling and treating them like newborn infants. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE THIRTEENTH.; lines 8770-8858 | medium | Ulysses says Philoctetes remains on Lemnos; he advised rest from war and voyage; prophets require Philoctetes for Troy's destruction; Ulysses says he will attempt to bring him back and obtain his arrows. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE THIRTEENTH.; lines 8860-8963 | medium | Ulysses sails to retrieve the arrows, weapons of the Tirynthian hero; when they return with their owner, the long war ends, Troy and Priam fall, and Priam’s wife loses human form and barks. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE THIRTEENTH.; lines 9093-9130 | low | Idomeneus was son of Deucalion, king of Crete, and settled at Salentinum in Italy after Troy. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE THIRTEENTH. / EXPLANATION.; lines 9235-9321 | medium | Achilles rises from the ground like a threatening figure and asks whether the Greeks are departing without remembering him; he demands that Polyxena be slain to appease his ghost and honor his sepulchre. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE THIRTEENTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 9640-9674 | medium | The Strophades were two Ionian islands named from a Greek word for return because Calais and Zethes pursued the Harpies that persecuted Phineus there and then returned home by Jupiter's command. | record |
| Buddhist | More Jataka Tales | XVIII / THE WISE GOAT AND THE WOLF / PRINCE WICKED AND THE GRATEFUL ANIMALS / BEAUTY AND BROWNIE; lines 1582-1626 | medium | The father says he, the mother, and older deer will stay in the forest, while Beauty and Brownie must lead their herds to the high hills until the crops are cut. | record |
| Buddhist | More Jataka Tales | XX BEAUTY AND BROWNIE / XXI THE ELEPHANT AND THE DOG / THE GIRL MONKEY AND THE STRING OF PEARLS / THE THREE FISHES; lines 264-305 | medium | The rescued fishes say that Very-Thoughtful saved their lives and that they are now willing to go back to the wild country. | record |
| Sufi | Mystics and Saints of Islam | CHAPTER V / CHAPTER VI / CHAPTER VII / CHAPTER VIII; lines 2040-2134 | medium | Disciples deny Hallaj's death, believe a resembling person died in his place, expect him after forty days, and some claim to meet him on the road to Nahrawan. | record |
| Sufi | Mystics and Saints of Islam | CHAPTER VII / CHAPTER VIII / CHAPTER IX / CHAPTER X; lines 2767-2865 | high | Avicenna’s poem says the soul descended from heaven like a rare uncaptured dove, entered union with the body, grew accustomed to the world, and forgot the protected park of heaven. | record |
| Sufi | Mystics and Saints of Islam | CHAPTER VIII / CHAPTER IX / CHAPTER X / CHAPTER XI; lines 3024-3106 | high | Muhammad Ibn Malikshah asked Ghazzali to come to Nishapur to help religious revival; after ten years he returned to teaching, contrasting his former fame-seeking teaching with later teaching for spiritual progress and praying for divine guidance and enlightenment. | record |
| Sufi | Mystics and Saints of Islam | CHAPTER X / CHAPTER XI / CHAPTER XII. / STORY OF THE SHEIKH SANAAN.; lines 3635-3726 | high | A friend directs the disciples to pray for the Sheikh; after forty days and nights of prayer and fasting, God turns his heart back to Islam, his religious memory returns, he repents, performs ablutions, resumes Muslim garb, and returns to Mecca. | record |
| Sufi | Mystics and Saints of Islam | CHAPTER X / CHAPTER XI / CHAPTER XII. / STORY OF THE SHEIKH SANAAN.; lines 3635-3726 | medium | A friend directs the disciples to pray for the Sheikh; after forty days and nights of prayer and fasting, God turns his heart back to Islam, his religious memory returns, he repents, performs ablutions, resumes Muslim garb, and returns to Mecca. | record |
| Sufi | Mystics and Saints of Islam | CHAPTER X / CHAPTER XI / CHAPTER XII. / STORY OF THE SHEIKH SANAAN.; lines 3635-3726 | medium | The girl says that if he is earnest, he must wash his hands of Islam, bow to idols, burn the Koran, drink wine, and abandon religious observances. | record |
| Sufi | Mystics and Saints of Islam | ANECDOTE OF BAYAZID BASTAMI. / CHAPTER XIII / CHAPTER XIV / JALALUDDIN RUMI; lines 4137-4241 | high | The Masnavi opening asks the listener to hear the reed flute complain of separation after being torn from its ozier-bed; its plaintive notes move people to tears, and it longs for the day of return home. | record |
| Sufi | Mystics and Saints of Islam | ANECDOTE OF BAYAZID BASTAMI. / CHAPTER XIII / CHAPTER XIV / JALALUDDIN RUMI; lines 4355-4473 | medium | The narrator says Rumi presents God as more immanent than transcendent and introduces a passage portraying man ascending through stages of existence back to his Origin. | record |
| Sufi | Mystics and Saints of Islam | ANECDOTE OF BAYAZID BASTAMI. / CHAPTER XIII / CHAPTER XIV / JALALUDDIN RUMI; lines 4475-4544 | high | The passage describes development from inorganic to vegetable, animal, man, angel, and then merging in the Nameless; all existence says, "Unto Him shall we return." | record |
| Sufi | Mystics and Saints of Islam | CHAPTER XIII / CHAPTER XIV / JALALUDDIN RUMI / CHAPTER XV; lines 4547-4637 | medium | Persian theosophy is described as teaching divine emanation and the soul as a spark of the Divine Essence returning to God after purification; Arab Sufis are contrasted as retaining the Koran and Muhammad while claiming celestial inspiration. | record |
| Sufi | Mystics and Saints of Islam | CHAPTER XIV / JALALUDDIN RUMI / CHAPTER XV / CHAPTER XVI; lines 5161-5256 | medium | Mullah Shah's ideas are described as pantheistic: individual existence counts for nothing, nothing exists outside God, particular life dissolves in universal unity, life and death are changes in existence, and the individual returns to the Infinite Being. | record |
| Sufi | Mystics and Saints of Islam | APPENDIX I / MOHAMMEDAN CONVERSIONS / APPENDIX II / APPENDIX III; lines 5543-5636 | high | Traditions say, "How will it be with you when God sends Jesus to judge you?" and "There is no Mahdi but Jesus." | record |
| Sufi | Mystics and Saints of Islam | APPENDIX I / MOHAMMEDAN CONVERSIONS / APPENDIX II / APPENDIX III; lines 5638-5700 | high | The passage lists favorite Sufi phrases including “The Perfect Man,” “The new creation,” and “The return to God,” and says the Babi movement’s name derives from Christ’s saying “I am the Door,” adopted by Mirza Ali. | record |
| Sufi | Mystics and Saints of Islam | APPENDIX II / APPENDIX III / APPENDIX IV / CHRIST IN MODAMMEDAN TRADITION.; lines 5936-5958 | high | Post-Koranic writers are said to include Christ's sinlessness, return to judgment, humility, unworldliness, sufferings, and doctrine of New Birth, while the Koran is said to be silent on these topics. | record |
| Sufi | The Mystics of Islam | THE GNOSIS / THE REVELATION OF THE SEA / CHAPTER IV / DIVINE LOVE; lines 2852-2966 | high | Love is called the divine instinct of the soul; the soul is first-born of God, lived in Him before creation, and is an earthly exile longing for home. | record |
| Sufi | The Mystics of Islam | CHAPTER V / SAINTS AND MIRACLES / CHAPTER VI / THE UNITIVE STATE; lines 3925-4037 | high | The Perfect Man abides in God after passing-away from selfhood, journeys to God and in and with God, returns with God to the phenomenal world, manifests unity in plurality, and makes the Law his upper garment and the mystic Path his inner garment. | record |
| Sufi | The Mystics of Islam | CHAPTER V / SAINTS AND MIRACLES / CHAPTER VI / THE UNITIVE STATE; lines 4039-4135 | high | The author says Jalāluddīn prays for self-annihilation in the ocean of Godhead; the poem recounts dying as mineral, plant, animal, man, and angel, then passing beyond angelhood and returning to God. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | ALCMAEON AND THE NECKLACE. / THE HERACLIDAE. / THE SIEGE OF TROY. / RETURN OF THE GREEKS FROM TROY.; lines 10012-10108 | high | After boarding the ship, Odysseus reveals his name and mocks Polyphemus; Polyphemus hurls a rock and asks Poseidon to curse Odysseus' voyage and return. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | ALCMAEON AND THE NECKLACE. / THE HERACLIDAE. / THE SIEGE OF TROY. / RETURN OF THE GREEKS FROM TROY.; lines 10110-10199 | high | Near Ithaca, while Odysseus sleeps, his comrades open the bag thinking it may hold treasure; adverse winds rush out, drive them back to Aeolus, and Aeolus reproaches and dismisses them. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | ALCMAEON AND THE NECKLACE. / THE HERACLIDAE. / THE SIEGE OF TROY. / RETURN OF THE GREEKS FROM TROY.; lines 10201-10297 | medium | Other shades drink and speak: Odysseus recognizes Anticlea, learns she died of grief and that Laertes longs for his return, converses with Agamemnon, Patroclus, and Achilles, and is refused by Ajax. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | ALCMAEON AND THE NECKLACE. / THE HERACLIDAE. / THE SIEGE OF TROY. / RETURN OF THE GREEKS FROM TROY.; lines 10201-10297 | medium | Tiresias comes with a golden staff, drinks the sacrifice, reveals Odysseus' future fate, and warns him how to avoid dangers on the voyage and after returning to Ithaca. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | ALCMAEON AND THE NECKLACE. / THE HERACLIDAE. / THE SIEGE OF TROY. / RETURN OF THE GREEKS FROM TROY.; lines 10299-10392 | high | Athene intercedes with Zeus; Zeus sends Hermes to command Calypso to release Odysseus and provide transport; Calypso obeys, instructs him in raft-building, weaves the sails, and he departs alone. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | ALCMAEON AND THE NECKLACE. / THE HERACLIDAE. / THE SIEGE OF TROY. / RETURN OF THE GREEKS FROM TROY.; lines 10299-10392 | high | Zeus promises vengeance; after seven days of feasting, the crew sail, a storm and lightning destroy the ship, all the crew drown except Odysseus, who floats on a mast for nine days and reaches Ogygia after escaping Charybdis. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | ALCMAEON AND THE NECKLACE. / THE HERACLIDAE. / THE SIEGE OF TROY. / RETURN OF THE GREEKS FROM TROY.; lines 10394-10485 | high | Odysseus sleeps deeply on the Phaeacian vessel; the sailors land him at Ithaca and place him under an olive-tree. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | ALCMAEON AND THE NECKLACE. / THE HERACLIDAE. / THE SIEGE OF TROY. / RETURN OF THE GREEKS FROM TROY.; lines 10487-10546 | high | Penelope hears of Odysseus' return but refuses to recognize her husband in the aged beggar. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | CERES. / APHRODITE (VENUS). / VENUS. / HELIOS (SOL).; lines 1985-2069 | high | Helios, son of Hyperion and Theia, rises in the east preceded by Eos, drives a gold fiery chariot with fire-breathing steeds, descends toward the sea, is followed by Selene, and rests on a couch prepared by sea-nymphs. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | VENUS. / HELIOS (SOL). / EOS (AURORA). / PHOEBUS-APOLLO.; lines 2441-2527 | high | Heracles arrives at Admetus' palace, learns of Alcestis' death, descends into the tomb, and holds Death until he promises to restore Alcestis to her family. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | VENUS. / HELIOS (SOL). / EOS (AURORA). / PHOEBUS-APOLLO.; lines 2598-2664 | high | Before Aides and Persephone, Orpheus pleads through song; they consent to release Eurydice if he does not look at her until reaching the upper world, but he looks back near the boundary and loses her forever. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | NEW YORK: / PREFACE. / E. M. BERENS. / CONTENTS.; lines 282-303 | low | “RETURN OF THE GREEKS FROM TROY, 304” | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | ARTEMIS (DIANA). / ARCADIAN ARTEMIS. / EPHESIAN ARTEMIS. / BRAURONIAN ARTEMIS.; lines 2976-3057 | medium | Iphigenia pleads for life and is bound to the altar; before the knife falls, Artemis replaces her with a deer, carries her in a cloud to Taurica, and makes her priestess in the temple. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | VICTORIA. / HERMES (MERCURY). / MERCURY. / DIONYSUS (BACCHUS).; lines 3954-4041 | medium | Dionysus leads men, women, fauns, and satyrs bearing Thyrsi and instruments; seated in a panther-drawn chariot, he progresses through Syria, Egypt, Arabia, India, and other regions, conquering, founding cities, and civilizing. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | FORTUNA. / ANANKE (NECESSITAS). / MOMUS. / EROS (CUPID, AMOR) AND PSYCHE.; lines 4825-4914 | medium | Psyche approaches Eros at night with lamp and dagger, sees his beautiful form, accidentally drops burning oil on him, and Eros wakes, reproaches her, spreads his wings, and leaves. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | ANANKE (NECESSITAS). / MOMUS. / EROS (CUPID, AMOR) AND PSYCHE. / HYMEN.; lines 4964-4987 | medium | Hymen disguises himself as a girl and joins maidens, including his beloved, traveling from Athens to Eleusis for a festival of Demeter. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | CADMUS. / PERSEUS. / THE ARGONAUTS. / STORY OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE.; lines 7145-7238 | medium | At the palace grounds, Chalciope recognizes the youths as her sons whom she had mourned as dead, while Medea is struck by Jason's noble and manly form. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | CADMUS. / PERSEUS. / THE ARGONAUTS. / STORY OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE.; lines 7432-7522 | high | A gigantic hippocamp approaches; Jason reports the Libyan prophetess' words; the Argonauts carry the Argo, follow the sea-horse through the desert for twelve days, reach the sea, sacrifice to the gods, and launch the ship again. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | THE ARGONAUTS. / STORY OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE. / PELOPS. / HERACLES (HERCULES).; lines 8170-8264 | medium | When the term of bondage expires, Heracles leaves Omphale's palace and resolves to take revenge against Laomedon and Augeas. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | PELOPS. / HERACLES (HERCULES). / BELLEROPHON. / THESEUS.; lines 8505-8590 | medium | The vessel normally bears black sails on the tribute voyage; Theseus promises to hoist white sails if he returns safely. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | PELOPS. / HERACLES (HERCULES). / BELLEROPHON. / THESEUS.; lines 8683-8725 | medium | Heracles passes by while searching for Cerberus, releases Theseus, and leaves Pirithoeus to perpetual punishment under divine injunction. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | PELOPS. / HERACLES (HERCULES). / BELLEROPHON. / THESEUS.; lines 8683-8725 | medium | Centuries later, by command of the Delphic oracle, Cimon brings Theseus' remains to Athens, where a temple is erected in his honor. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES. / THE EPIGONI. / ALCMAEON AND THE NECKLACE. / THE HERACLIDAE.; lines 9109-9206 | medium | After twelve months in the Peloponnesus, a pestilence spreads across the peninsula and forces the Heraclidae to return to Attica. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | THE EPIGONI. / ALCMAEON AND THE NECKLACE. / THE HERACLIDAE. / THE SIEGE OF TROY.; lines 9514-9591 | medium | Agamemnon sends distinguished chiefs to ask Achilles for aid, offering Briseis, marriage to his daughter, and seven towns, but Achilles refuses. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | THE EPIGONI. / ALCMAEON AND THE NECKLACE. / THE HERACLIDAE. / THE SIEGE OF TROY.; lines 9514-9591 | high | Achilles grieves over Patroclus and vows that funeral rites will wait until he has slain Hector and captured twelve Trojans for immolation on the funeral pyre. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | THE EPIGONI. / ALCMAEON AND THE NECKLACE. / THE HERACLIDAE. / THE SIEGE OF TROY.; lines 9593-9685 | high | Diomedes claims compensation for Thersites' death, Agamemnon does not intervene, Achilles resents the implied condemnation and sails to Lesbos, and Odysseus persuades him to return. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | THE EPIGONI. / ALCMAEON AND THE NECKLACE. / THE HERACLIDAE. / THE SIEGE OF TROY.; lines 9869-9911 | medium | Menelaus finds Helen, who is immortal and still beautiful; they reconcile and sail home. Andromache, Cassandra, and Hecuba are assigned to or captured by Greek victors. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | ALCMAEON AND THE NECKLACE. / THE HERACLIDAE. / THE SIEGE OF TROY. / RETURN OF THE GREEKS FROM TROY.; lines 9913-10010 | high | During the sack of Troy the Greeks commit desecration and cruelty; the gods' wrath makes their homeward voyage full of dangers and deaths. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | ALCMAEON AND THE NECKLACE. / THE HERACLIDAE. / THE SIEGE OF TROY. / RETURN OF THE GREEKS FROM TROY.; lines 9913-10010 | high | Clytemnestra, seeking revenge for Iphigenia's sacrifice, allies with Aegisthus; despite Cassandra's warnings, Agamemnon trusts her welcome, and Aegisthus kills him at her signal. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | ALCMAEON AND THE NECKLACE. / THE HERACLIDAE. / THE SIEGE OF TROY. / RETURN OF THE GREEKS FROM TROY.; lines 9913-10010 | medium | Orestes grows intent on avenging his father, returns in disguise with Pylades, and sends a messenger falsely reporting Orestes' death in a chariot-race. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | ALCMAEON AND THE NECKLACE. / THE HERACLIDAE. / THE SIEGE OF TROY. / RETURN OF THE GREEKS FROM TROY.; lines 9913-10010 | high | Storms drive Odysseus's fleet to the land of the lotus-eaters; the honey-sweet lotus causes oblivion of home, and Odysseus must force affected companions back to the ships. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXIV: THE DWARFS / CHAPTER XXV: THE ELVES / CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA / CHAPTER XXVII: THE STORY OF FRITHIOF; lines 11477-11599 | high | Frithiof sails six days to Framnäs, finds his home burned by Helgé's orders, is greeted by his hound and steed, learns from Hilding that Ingeborg is Sigurd Ring's wife, and goes in rage toward the temple. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXIV: THE DWARFS / CHAPTER XXV: THE ELVES / CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA / CHAPTER XXVII: THE STORY OF FRITHIOF; lines 11601-11720 | high | After three years, Frithiof decides to visit Sigurd Ring’s court; Björn warns him, but Frithiof says Angurvadel keeps him from being alone, leaves Ellida with Björn, wears a bear-hide disguise, and arrives at Yuletide. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXV: THE ELVES / CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA / CHAPTER XXVII: THE STORY OF FRITHIOF / CHAPTER XXVIII: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS; lines 12224-12362 | high | Vali and Vidar return to Ida; Modi and Magni, Thor's sons, bring Thor's sacred hammer rescued from the destruction. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas / CONTENTS / LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; lines 125-193 | medium | The listed titles include “Ingeborg,” “Frithiof Cleaves the Shield of Helgé,” “Ingeborg Watches her Lover Depart,” “Frithiof’s Return to Framnäs,” several further Frithiof scenes, “Odin and Fenris,” “The Ride of the Valkyrs,” and “The Storm-Ride.” | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA / CHAPTER XXVII: THE STORY OF FRITHIOF / CHAPTER XXVIII: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS / CHAPTER XXIX: GREEK AND NORTHERN MYTHOLOGIES; lines 12542-12649 | high | Odin's disappearance and Frigga's desolation are compared with Proserpine and Adonis myths; Frigga and Freya mourn absent husbands until their return. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA / CHAPTER XXVII: THE STORY OF FRITHIOF / CHAPTER XXVIII: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS / CHAPTER XXIX: GREEK AND NORTHERN MYTHOLOGIES; lines 12651-12759 | medium | Thor’s struggle against Hrungnir is compared with Hercules’ fights; Groa is compared with Ceres because she mourns absent Orvandil and rejoices when she hears he will return. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA / CHAPTER XXVII: THE STORY OF FRITHIOF / CHAPTER XXVIII: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS / CHAPTER XXIX: GREEK AND NORTHERN MYTHOLOGIES; lines 12651-12759 | medium | Magni, Thor’s son, shows strength at three hours old by lifting Hrungnir’s leg from Thor; Thor’s appetite at Thrym’s feast is compared with Mercury’s first meal; Thor’s crossing of Veimer is compared with Jason wading across a torrent on the way to Pelias to recover his father’s throne. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA / CHAPTER XXVII: THE STORY OF FRITHIOF / CHAPTER XXVIII: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS / CHAPTER XXIX: GREEK AND NORTHERN MYTHOLOGIES; lines 12874-12978 | medium | Freya/Odur are compared with Venus/Adonis: departure, transformed tears, return and joy, animal-drawn cars, and refusal or desertion of unwanted husbands. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING / CHAPTER II: ODIN; lines 1709-1827 | high | Odin is absent so long that the gods fear he will not return; Vili and Ve usurp his power and throne and are said to take Frigga; the passage cites Sæmund's Edda. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING / CHAPTER II: ODIN; lines 1709-1827 | medium | Near death, the semi-historical Odin assembles followers, cuts himself nine times in the breast with his spear, calls this carving Geir odds, and says he will return to Asgard to await them. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER IV: THOR / CHAPTER V: TYR / CHAPTER VI: BRAGI / CHAPTER VII: IDUN; lines 4135-4274 | high | Loki is threatened by the gods, promises to restore Idun, borrows Freya's falcon plumage, flies to Thrym-heim, finds Idun mourning exile from Asgard and Bragi, changes her into a nut or swallow, and carries her back. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER VI: BRAGI / CHAPTER VII: IDUN / CHAPTER IX: FREY / CHAPTER X: FREYA; lines 4986-5124 | high | Odur, restless and wearying of Freya's company, suddenly leaves home and wanders far into the wide world. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XIII: HEIMDALL / CHAPTER XIV: HERMOD / CHAPTER XV: VIDAR / CHAPTER XVI: VALI; lines 6022-6149 | medium | Vali is one of the twelve deities in Glads-heim, shares Valaskialf with Odin, and is destined to survive the last battle and reign with Vidar over the regenerated earth. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XVIII: THE VALKYRS / CHAPTER XIX: HEL / L. E. R. / CHAPTER XXI: BALDER; lines 7824-7975 | high | Hermod petitions Hel for Balder's release; Hel says Balder may depart if all animate and inanimate things show sorrow by shedding tears. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XIX: HEL / L. E. R. / CHAPTER XXI: BALDER / CHAPTER XXII: LOKI; lines 8422-8532 | medium | Loki remains in this painful position until Ragnarok, when his bonds are loosed and he fights at Vigrid, falling by Heimdall's hand while Heimdall is also slain. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXII: LOKI / CHAPTER XXIII: THE GIANTS / CHAPTER XXIV: THE DWARFS / CHAPTER XXV: THE ELVES; lines 9042-9171 | medium | Will-o'-the-wisps are called elf lights that mislead travellers; Jack-o'-lanterns are restless spirits of murderers forced to return to the scenes of their crimes. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXIII: THE GIANTS / CHAPTER XXIV: THE DWARFS / CHAPTER XXV: THE ELVES / CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA; lines 9547-9642 | medium | Sigmund and Sinfiotli are captured by the Goths; Siggeir orders them buried alive in one mound with a stone partition between them. Signy throws Sinfiotli a straw bundle, which the Goths assume contains provisions. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXIII: THE GIANTS / CHAPTER XXIV: THE DWARFS / CHAPTER XXV: THE ELVES / CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA; lines 9547-9642 | medium | After vengeance for the Volsungs, Sigmund sails with Sinfiotli to Hunaland, is welcomed to power under the ancestral tree Branstock, marries Borghild, and fathers Hamond and Helgi. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XX / BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII; lines 10017-10117 | high | Euryclea wakes Penelope and announces that Ulysses has come home and killed the suitors who troubled his house. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XX / BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII; lines 10017-10117 | high | Euryclea wakes Penelope and announces that Ulysses has come home and killed the suitors who troubled his house. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XX / BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII; lines 10119-10211 | high | Telemachus asks why Penelope keeps away from his father after twenty years of absence and hardship, and says her heart is hard as stone. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XX / BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII; lines 10119-10211 | medium | Eurynome washes, anoints, and clothes Ulysses; Minerva enhances his stature, strength, hair, and beauty; he sits opposite Penelope and calls her heart hard as iron. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XX / BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII; lines 10213-10296 | high | Penelope breaks down, embraces Ulysses, explains her fear of deception, invokes Helen, and says she can no longer mistrust him because he knows the secret of their bed. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XX / BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII; lines 10213-10296 | medium | Ulysses weeps while clasping Penelope; the narration compares her welcome of him to swimmers reaching land after Neptune has wrecked their ship. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XX / BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII; lines 10213-10296 | high | Ulysses tells Penelope that their troubles are not over and that Teiresias prophesied a long, difficult task when Ulysses went down into Hades to ask about his return. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XX / BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII; lines 10213-10296 | medium | Ulysses tells Penelope that their troubles are not over and that Teiresias prophesied a long, difficult task when Ulysses went down into Hades to ask about his return. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XX / BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII; lines 10298-10348 | high | Ulysses begins with victory over the Cicons, the land of the Lotus-eaters, the Cyclops, Aeolus, and the Laestrygonian destruction of all ships except his own. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XX / BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII; lines 10298-10348 | medium | The Phaeacians treat Ulysses as though he were a god, send him to his country by ship with gifts, and then deep sleep overtakes him and eases his sorrows. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII / BOOK XXIV; lines 10351-10444 | medium | Agamemnon joins the heroic ghosts with those who died with him in Aegisthus’ house; Achilles says Agamemnon would have had a better end had he fallen at Troy. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII / BOOK XXIV; lines 10446-10532 | high | Telemachus comes first to town, then Ulysses comes with the swineherd, dressed in rags and leaning on a staff like a poor old beggar; none of the suitors recognizes him. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII / BOOK XXIV; lines 10446-10532 | high | Ulysses and the others leave town and reach Laertes' well-tilled farm; Ulysses sends companions to prepare a pig for dinner while he tests whether his father will recognize him after long absence. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII / BOOK XXIV; lines 10534-10622 | high | Ulysses removes his armour, gives it to Eumaeus and Philoetius, and turns into the vineyard to make trial of his father. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII / BOOK XXIV; lines 10534-10622 | high | Ulysses is moved, embraces and kisses Laertes, reveals himself as the son who has returned after twenty years, and says he has killed the suitors to punish their crimes. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII / BOOK XXIV; lines 10624-10722 | high | Ulysses proves his identity by showing a scar from a boar’s tusk received on Mt. Parnassus and by naming the pear, apple, fig trees and rows of vines Laertes had given or promised him. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII / BOOK XXIV; lines 10624-10722 | medium | Dolius and his sons arrive for the meal, recognize Ulysses, greet and embrace him; Dolius kisses Ulysses’ hand and says heaven has restored him home. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII / BOOK XXIV; lines 10724-10815 | medium | Jove says Ulysses has taken revenge and proposes that the parties swear a solemn covenant, Ulysses continue to rule, the others forget the massacre, and peace and plenty reign. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII / BOOK XXIV / FOOTNOTES:; lines 11174-11276 | medium | The note says Ulysses' sleep is being prepared and is important because the harbor used for his landing in Ithaca was about two miles from where he is speaking with Alcinous. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII / BOOK XXIV / FOOTNOTES:; lines 11278-11377 | medium | The note says 'floating' should not be taken literally of Aeolus's island; Ulysses stayed there for a month and found it in the same place when he returned. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII / BOOK XXIV / FOOTNOTES:; lines 11278-11377 | medium | The note says a corresponding prophecy ends with the loss of all comrades and that an expanded passage adds allusion to the suitors. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | The Odyssey / PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION; lines 113-185 | high | “Tell me, Muse, of that man ... who wandered far and wide” after Troy and suffered on the deep while seeking life and return. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | The Odyssey / PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION; lines 113-185 | medium | The preface states that the Odyssey was written at and drawn from Trapani, and that Ulysses' nearby voyages form a periplus from Trapani back to Trapani via the Lipari islands, the Straits of Messina, and Pantellaria. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII / BOOK XXIV / FOOTNOTES:; lines 11379-11488 | medium | The note explains that Ulysses is made to set out after dark, fall into deep sleep, and wake on a foggy morning so the audience can accept the setting. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK I / BOOK II / BOOK III / TELEMACHUS VISITS NESTOR AT PYLOS.; lines 1232-1327 | high | After Priam's city was sacked, Jove vexed the Argives on their voyage home, and Minerva's displeasure brought about a quarrel between the sons of Atreus. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK I / BOOK II / BOOK III / TELEMACHUS VISITS NESTOR AT PYLOS.; lines 1329-1422 | high | Minerva says heaven can save a man, that safe homecoming is worth suffering for, and that not even the gods can save a man when his hour of death comes. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK I / BOOK II / BOOK III / TELEMACHUS VISITS NESTOR AT PYLOS.; lines 1329-1422 | high | Aegisthus rules Mycene seven years after killing Agamemnon; in the eighth year Orestes returns from Athens, kills him, and holds funeral rites and a banquet. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK II / BOOK III / TELEMACHUS VISITS NESTOR AT PYLOS. / BOOK IV; lines 1561-1661 | high | Menelaus says no one can equal Jove's immortal house, then says he traveled much and suffered hardship for nearly eight years before returning with his fleet through Cyprus, Phoenicia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Sidon, the Erembians, and Libya. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK II / BOOK III / TELEMACHUS VISITS NESTOR AT PYLOS. / BOOK IV; lines 1762-1847 | medium | Telemachus says he came to learn about his father, describes suitors wasting his estate while courting his mother, and asks Menelaus as a suppliant to tell plainly what he saw or heard about Ulysses. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK II / BOOK III / TELEMACHUS VISITS NESTOR AT PYLOS. / BOOK IV; lines 1849-1948 | medium | The speaker says the gods detained him in Egypt because his hecatombs had not given them full satisfaction and the gods are strict about their dues. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | The Odyssey / PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION; lines 187-272 | high | Odysseus alone is away from home, craving wife and return, while Calypso holds him in hollow caves and wants him for her lord. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK II / BOOK III / TELEMACHUS VISITS NESTOR AT PYLOS. / BOOK IV; lines 1950-2039 | high | Proteus says Menelaus must sacrifice to Jove and the gods, return to Egypt, and offer holy hecatombs before the gods will let him finish his voyage. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK II / BOOK III / TELEMACHUS VISITS NESTOR AT PYLOS. / BOOK IV; lines 1950-2039 | medium | Menelaus asks the old man which immortal is hindering him and how he may sail the sea to reach home. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK II / BOOK III / TELEMACHUS VISITS NESTOR AT PYLOS. / BOOK IV; lines 1950-2039 | high | Agamemnon and his ships escape under Juno's protection, are driven by a gale, then reach home, where Agamemnon kisses his native soil and weeps for joy. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK II / BOOK III / TELEMACHUS VISITS NESTOR AT PYLOS. / BOOK IV; lines 1950-2039 | high | Proteus says the third man is Ulysses of Ithaca, alive on an island, sorrowing in Calypso's house, kept prisoner and unable to return for lack of ships and sailors. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK II / BOOK III / TELEMACHUS VISITS NESTOR AT PYLOS. / BOOK IV; lines 2041-2133 | medium | Antinous is angry, says Telemachus has escaped with a picked crew, asks for a ship and twenty men, and proposes lying in wait in the straits between Ithaca and Samos so Telemachus will rue his search for news of his father; the others approve. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK II / BOOK III / TELEMACHUS VISITS NESTOR AT PYLOS. / BOOK IV; lines 2135-2239 | medium | “They are going to try and murder Telemachus as he is coming home from Pylos and Lacedaemon” after seeking news of his father. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK II / BOOK III / TELEMACHUS VISITS NESTOR AT PYLOS. / BOOK IV; lines 2241-2286 | medium | “Your son has done them no wrong, so he will yet come back to you.” | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK III / TELEMACHUS VISITS NESTOR AT PYLOS. / BOOK IV / BOOK V; lines 2289-2384 | high | At the divine council, Minerva pities Ulysses in Calypso’s house, says Calypso will not release him, and reports danger to Telemachus from would-be murderers. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK III / TELEMACHUS VISITS NESTOR AT PYLOS. / BOOK IV / BOOK V; lines 2289-2384 | high | Jove orders Mercury to tell Calypso that Ulysses is decreed to return: he will travel by raft for twenty perilous days to Scheria, and the Phaeacians will send him home with gifts. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK III / TELEMACHUS VISITS NESTOR AT PYLOS. / BOOK IV / BOOK V; lines 2386-2472 | high | Mercury says to send Ulysses away or Jove will be angry and punish Calypso. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK III / TELEMACHUS VISITS NESTOR AT PYLOS. / BOOK IV / BOOK V; lines 2386-2472 | high | Calypso asks whether Ulysses would leave at once and says that if he knew his future suffering he would stay, keep house with her, and let her make him immortal despite his longing for his wife. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK III / TELEMACHUS VISITS NESTOR AT PYLOS. / BOOK IV / BOOK V; lines 2474-2559 | medium | Ulysses steers by the Pleiads, Bootes, and the Bear, following Calypso’s instruction, and after eighteen days sees the mountains of the Phaeacian coast. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK III / TELEMACHUS VISITS NESTOR AT PYLOS. / BOOK IV / BOOK V; lines 2561-2653 | medium | Neptune sends a great wave that breaks the raft; Ulysses rides a plank, removes Calypso's clothes, binds Ino's veil under his arms, plunges into the sea to swim, and Neptune taunts him before driving to Aegae. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK IV / BOOK V / BOOK VI / THE MEETING BETWEEN NAUSICAA AND ULYSSES.; lines 2694-2792 | high | Ulysses sleeps; Minerva goes to the Phaeacians. The Phaeacians had moved from Hypereia near the Cyclopes to Scheria under Nausithous, who built and divided the city; Alcinous now reigns, and Minerva goes to his house to further Ulysses' return. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | The Odyssey / PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION; lines 274-318 | high | The first poem is called The Return of Ulysses; the Muse is asked to sing it, and it includes the Phaeacian episode and Ulysses’ account of adventures in Books ix-xii. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK IV / BOOK V / BOOK VI / THE MEETING BETWEEN NAUSICAA AND ULYSSES.; lines 2882-2972 | high | Nausicaa instructs Ulysses to ask for Alcinous's house, pass through gates and courts, approach her mother by the fire as she spins purple wool, clasp her knees, and gain hope of returning home. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK IV / BOOK V / BOOK VI / THE MEETING BETWEEN NAUSICAA AND ULYSSES.; lines 2974-2989 | high | Minerva hears the prayer but does not appear openly because she fears Neptune, who remains furious and tries to prevent Ulysses from getting home. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK VI / THE MEETING BETWEEN NAUSICAA AND ULYSSES. / BOOK VII / RECEPTION OF ULYSSES AT THE PALACE OF KING ALCINOUS.; lines 2992-3088 | high | Minerva points out the house, tells Ulysses to seek Arete, recounts the descent of Alcinous and Arete from Neptune, describes Arete's exceptional honor, and says her goodwill may enable Ulysses' return home. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK VI / THE MEETING BETWEEN NAUSICAA AND ULYSSES. / BOOK VII / RECEPTION OF ULYSSES AT THE PALACE OF KING ALCINOUS.; lines 3090-3174 | high | Alcinous tells the Phaeacian councillors to go to bed, announces a sacrificial banquet for the guest, and says they will discuss escorting him safely and joyfully to his own country. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK VI / THE MEETING BETWEEN NAUSICAA AND ULYSSES. / BOOK VII / RECEPTION OF ULYSSES AT THE PALACE OF KING ALCINOUS.; lines 3176-3259 | high | Ulysses asks to sup despite sorrow and asks that at daybreak they help him get home. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK VI / THE MEETING BETWEEN NAUSICAA AND ULYSSES. / BOOK VII / RECEPTION OF ULYSSES AT THE PALACE OF KING ALCINOUS.; lines 3261-3292 | high | Alcinous says no one shall keep Ulysses there against his will and promises to address the matter of his escort the next day. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | THE MEETING BETWEEN NAUSICAA AND ULYSSES. / BOOK VII / RECEPTION OF ULYSSES AT THE PALACE OF KING ALCINOUS. / BOOK VIII; lines 3295-3396 | high | Minerva takes the form of one of Alcinous' servants, goes around town, and urges Phaeacian aldermen and councillors to attend the assembly and hear the long-voyaging stranger. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | THE MEETING BETWEEN NAUSICAA AND ULYSSES. / BOOK VII / RECEPTION OF ULYSSES AT THE PALACE OF KING ALCINOUS. / BOOK VIII; lines 3398-3494 | medium | Laodamas describes the stranger as powerfully built but recently harmed by the sea, invites him to compete, and says the ship and crew for his return are ready. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | THE MEETING BETWEEN NAUSICAA AND ULYSSES. / BOOK VII / RECEPTION OF ULYSSES AT THE PALACE OF KING ALCINOUS. / BOOK VIII; lines 3599-3696 | high | Euryalus promises satisfaction, gives Ulysses a bronze sword with silver hilt and ivory scabbard, apologizes, and wishes him a safe return. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | THE MEETING BETWEEN NAUSICAA AND ULYSSES. / BOOK VII / RECEPTION OF ULYSSES AT THE PALACE OF KING ALCINOUS. / BOOK VIII; lines 3698-3785 | medium | Alcinous asks the guest to end concealment, state the name given by his parents, and identify his country, nation, and city so Phaeacian ships can take him there. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | THE MEETING BETWEEN NAUSICAA AND ULYSSES. / BOOK VII / RECEPTION OF ULYSSES AT THE PALACE OF KING ALCINOUS. / BOOK VIII; lines 3787-3798 | medium | The speaker asks why the addressee is unhappy on hearing of “the return of the Argive Danaans from Troy.” | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK VII / RECEPTION OF ULYSSES AT THE PALACE OF KING ALCINOUS. / BOOK VIII / BOOK IX; lines 3801-3898 | high | Calypso kept Ulysses in her cave and wanted marriage; Circe also wanted marriage; Ulysses says home and parents are dearer than a splendid foreign home, and he will tell of adventures on his return from Troy by Jove's will. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK VII / RECEPTION OF ULYSSES AT THE PALACE OF KING ALCINOUS. / BOOK VIII / BOOK IX; lines 3801-3898 | medium | Calypso kept Ulysses in her cave and wanted marriage; Circe also wanted marriage; Ulysses says home and parents are dearer than a splendid foreign home, and he will tell of adventures on his return from Troy by Jove's will. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK VII / RECEPTION OF ULYSSES AT THE PALACE OF KING ALCINOUS. / BOOK VIII / BOOK IX; lines 3801-3898 | high | Ulysses sends three men to learn about the people; the Lotus-eaters do not harm them but give them lotus, after which the eaters stop caring about home or reporting back and want to remain eating lotus. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION / HENRY FESTING JONES. / THE ODYSSEY / BOOK I; lines 390-492 | high | All surviving warriors have returned except Ulysses, who longs for his wife and country but is detained by Calypso in a large cave; the gods decide he should return, while Neptune still persecutes him. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK VII / RECEPTION OF ULYSSES AT THE PALACE OF KING ALCINOUS. / BOOK VIII / BOOK IX; lines 4170-4268 | high | Polyphemus raises his hands to heaven and prays to Neptune that Ulysses may never reach home alive, or may return late, in distress, after losing all his men, in another man's ship, and find trouble at home. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK VII / RECEPTION OF ULYSSES AT THE PALACE OF KING ALCINOUS. / BOOK VIII / BOOK IX; lines 4270-4293 | high | At the island where the rest of the ships were left, the returning men find comrades lamenting and waiting, beach the vessel, land the Cyclops' sheep, and divide them equitably. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK VIII / BOOK IX / BOOK X / AEOLUS, THE LAESTRYGONES, CIRCE.; lines 4296-4397 | high | After nine days and nights, native land appears on the horizon close enough for stubble fires to be seen; Ulysses, exhausted from steering, falls asleep. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK VIII / BOOK IX / BOOK X / AEOLUS, THE LAESTRYGONES, CIRCE.; lines 4680-4781 | high | After feasting, Ulysses gets into bed with Circe and asks her to keep her promise about furthering his homeward voyage. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK X / AEOLUS, THE LAESTRYGONES, CIRCE. / BOOK XI / THE VISIT TO THE DEAD.88; lines 4876-4967 | high | Teiresias says heaven will make Odysseus' return hard and that Neptune still bears a bitter grudge because Odysseus blinded his son. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK X / AEOLUS, THE LAESTRYGONES, CIRCE. / BOOK XI / THE VISIT TO THE DEAD.88; lines 4876-4967 | high | Odysseus must carry a well-made oar to a country where people do not know the sea, ships, or oars; when a wayfarer calls it a winnowing shovel, he must plant it and sacrifice a ram, bull, and boar to Neptune. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION / HENRY FESTING JONES. / THE ODYSSEY / BOOK I; lines 494-587 | high | Telemachus says the suitors’ entertainment is paid for from his absent father’s goods, imagines their fear if Ulysses returned, says he does not expect to see him again, and asks the visitor’s identity, origin, ship, people, and prior connection to the house. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK X / AEOLUS, THE LAESTRYGONES, CIRCE. / BOOK XI / THE VISIT TO THE DEAD.88; lines 5070-5169 | medium | The queen asks the Phaeacians whether Ulysses is tall, good-looking, and clever, and urges them not to send him away hastily or be stingy with gifts. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK X / AEOLUS, THE LAESTRYGONES, CIRCE. / BOOK XI / THE VISIT TO THE DEAD.88; lines 5070-5169 | high | Agamemnon denies death by Neptune's storm and says Aegisthus and his wife killed him after feasting him; his comrades were slain around the mixing bowl and loaded tables, with the ground reeking with blood. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK X / AEOLUS, THE LAESTRYGONES, CIRCE. / BOOK XI / THE VISIT TO THE DEAD.88; lines 5070-5169 | high | Agamemnon says Cassandra screamed as Clytemnestra killed her; he lay dying with a sword in his body, and Clytemnestra did not close his lips or eyes. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK X / AEOLUS, THE LAESTRYGONES, CIRCE. / BOOK XI / THE VISIT TO THE DEAD.88; lines 5070-5169 | high | Agamemnon advises Ulysses not to tell even his wife everything, but says Penelope is admirable and unlikely to murder him; he expects Ulysses and his grown son to have a joyful meeting. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK X / AEOLUS, THE LAESTRYGONES, CIRCE. / BOOK XI / THE VISIT TO THE DEAD.88; lines 5271-5317 | medium | Thousands of ghosts gather with appalling cries, and Ulysses fears Proserpine may send up the Gorgon's head from Hades. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XI / THE VISIT TO THE DEAD.88 / BOOK XII / THE SIRENS, SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS, THE CATTLE OF THE SUN.; lines 5320-5420 | high | After clearing Oceanus, the voyagers reach Aeaea, draw the ship onto the sands, sleep on shore, and wait for dawn. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XI / THE VISIT TO THE DEAD.88 / BOOK XII / THE SIRENS, SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS, THE CATTLE OF THE SUN.; lines 5422-5511 | medium | The goddess warns that if the flocks are left unharmed Ulysses may reach Ithaca after hardship, but if harmed, the ship and comrades will be destroyed and Ulysses will return late and in bad condition if he survives. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XI / THE VISIT TO THE DEAD.88 / BOOK XII / THE SIRENS, SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS, THE CATTLE OF THE SUN.; lines 5610-5710 | medium | Jove releases thunderbolts; the ship is struck, filled with fire and brimstone, and the men fall into the sea and are deprived of homecoming. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XII / THE SIRENS, SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS, THE CATTLE OF THE SUN. / BOOK XIII / ULYSSES LEAVES SCHERIA AND RETURNS TO ITHACA.; lines 5712-5817 | high | Ulysses crosses the threshold; Alcinous sends a guide, Arete sends maidservants with clothing, a strong box, corn, and wine, and the crew puts these and other provisions aboard. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XII / THE SIRENS, SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS, THE CATTLE OF THE SUN. / BOOK XIII / ULYSSES LEAVES SCHERIA AND RETURNS TO ITHACA.; lines 5712-5817 | medium | At the appearance of the bright star before dawn, the ship draws near land. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XII / THE SIRENS, SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS, THE CATTLE OF THE SUN. / BOOK XIII / ULYSSES LEAVES SCHERIA AND RETURNS TO ITHACA.; lines 5819-5919 | high | The Phaeacians land the sleeping Ulysses with his bedding, place his gifts by the root of an olive tree away from the road, and depart. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION / HENRY FESTING JONES. / THE ODYSSEY / BOOK I; lines 589-680 | medium | Telemachus says the gods have hidden his father more closely than any mortal, that storm-winds carried him off without trace, and that suitors from Dulichium, Same, Zacynthus, and Ithaca are consuming his house while courting his mother. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION / HENRY FESTING JONES. / THE ODYSSEY / BOOK I; lines 589-680 | high | Phemius sings to silent hearers about the sad return from Troy and the ills Minerva laid on the Achaeans. Penelope hears from upstairs, descends with two handmaids, stands by a bearing post, holds a veil before her face, and weeps. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XII / THE SIRENS, SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS, THE CATTLE OF THE SUN. / BOOK XIII / ULYSSES LEAVES SCHERIA AND RETURNS TO ITHACA.; lines 5921-5999 | high | Minerva says the country is well known as Ithaca and describes it as rugged but fertile, with corn, wine, rain, dew, cattle, goats, timber, and never-failing water places. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XII / THE SIRENS, SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS, THE CATTLE OF THE SUN. / BOOK XIII / ULYSSES LEAVES SCHERIA AND RETURNS TO ITHACA.; lines 6001-6093 | high | Minerva describes Ulysses' shrewdness, says he returned safely but lost his men, notes Neptune's anger, and identifies the haven of Phorcys, the olive tree, the Naiad cave, the cavern of offerings, and mountain Neritum. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XII / THE SIRENS, SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS, THE CATTLE OF THE SUN. / BOOK XIII / ULYSSES LEAVES SCHERIA AND RETURNS TO ITHACA.; lines 6001-6093 | high | Minerva promises to stay attentive, predicts bloodshed among those consuming Ulysses' substance, and says she will disguise him so no human being will know him. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XII / THE SIRENS, SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS, THE CATTLE OF THE SUN. / BOOK XIII / ULYSSES LEAVES SCHERIA AND RETURNS TO ITHACA.; lines 6001-6093 | medium | Ulysses asks why Minerva did not tell Telemachus; Minerva answers that Telemachus is comfortable with Menelaus, while the suitors wait at sea to kill him before he returns, though she expects they will fail. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XIII / ULYSSES LEAVES SCHERIA AND RETURNS TO ITHACA. / BOOK XIV / ULYSSES IN THE HUT WITH EUMAEUS.; lines 6096-6194 | high | Ulysses leaves the haven, travels through wooded country over a mountain crest, and reaches the place where Minerva said he would find the swineherd. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XIII / ULYSSES LEAVES SCHERIA AND RETURNS TO ITHACA. / BOOK XIV / ULYSSES IN THE HUT WITH EUMAEUS.; lines 6196-6288 | high | Ulysses swears by king Jove, the rites of hospitality, and Ulysses' hearth that Ulysses will return within the year and take vengeance on those mistreating his wife and son; he refuses reward until this occurs. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XIII / ULYSSES LEAVES SCHERIA AND RETURNS TO ITHACA. / BOOK XIV / ULYSSES IN THE HUT WITH EUMAEUS.; lines 6196-6288 | medium | Ulysses swears by king Jove, the rites of hospitality, and Ulysses' hearth that Ulysses will return within the year and take vengeance on those mistreating his wife and son; he refuses reward until this occurs. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XIII / ULYSSES LEAVES SCHERIA AND RETURNS TO ITHACA. / BOOK XIV / ULYSSES IN THE HUT WITH EUMAEUS.; lines 6290-6372 | high | The speaker says he rose among the Cretans, led ships to Troy with Idomeneus, fought nine years, sacked Priam’s city, returned home briefly, then fitted out nine ships, sacrificed, feasted, and sailed from Crete toward Egypt. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XIII / ULYSSES LEAVES SCHERIA AND RETURNS TO ITHACA. / BOOK XIV / ULYSSES IN THE HUT WITH EUMAEUS.; lines 6374-6464 | high | Eumaeus says he doubts the stranger's claims about Ulysses, describes Ulysses as absent and carried away by storm winds, and notes that Penelope calls him when news about Ulysses arrives. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | ULYSSES LEAVES SCHERIA AND RETURNS TO ITHACA. / BOOK XIV / ULYSSES IN THE HUT WITH EUMAEUS. / BOOK XV; lines 6547-6648 | high | Minerva goes to Lacedaemon, finds Telemachus sleepless, and tells him not to remain away from home because suitors threaten his property and his mother may be urged toward remarriage. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | ULYSSES LEAVES SCHERIA AND RETURNS TO ITHACA. / BOOK XIV / ULYSSES IN THE HUT WITH EUMAEUS. / BOOK XV; lines 6650-6731 | high | An eagle flies on the right, carrying a great white goose taken from a farmyard; people chase it shouting, and it passes close in front of the horses on the right. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | ULYSSES LEAVES SCHERIA AND RETURNS TO ITHACA. / BOOK XIV / ULYSSES IN THE HUT WITH EUMAEUS. / BOOK XV; lines 6650-6731 | high | Telemachus asks Pisistratus to leave him at his ship rather than take him to Nestor's house, saying he must go home at once. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | ULYSSES LEAVES SCHERIA AND RETURNS TO ITHACA. / BOOK XIV / ULYSSES IN THE HUT WITH EUMAEUS. / BOOK XV; lines 6733-6832 | medium | After sunset and darkness, the vessel makes a quick passage onward, and Telemachus heads toward the flying islands while wondering whether he will escape death or be captured. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION / HENRY FESTING JONES. / THE ODYSSEY / BOOK I; lines 682-759 | high | Telemachus tells his mother to let the bard sing, says Jove sends good and evil, mentions the ill-fated return of the Danaans and Ulysses not returning from Troy, then sends her to loom, distaff, servants, and declares himself master in the house. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | ULYSSES LEAVES SCHERIA AND RETURNS TO ITHACA. / BOOK XIV / ULYSSES IN THE HUT WITH EUMAEUS. / BOOK XV; lines 6834-6930 | medium | The man who seduced her asks whether she wants to go with them to see her parents, who are alive and well off. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | ULYSSES LEAVES SCHERIA AND RETURNS TO ITHACA. / BOOK XIV / ULYSSES IN THE HUT WITH EUMAEUS. / BOOK XV; lines 6932-7022 | high | Telemachus and his crew near land, lower sail and mast, row into harbor, moor the ship, go ashore, mix wine, and prepare dinner. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | ULYSSES IN THE HUT WITH EUMAEUS. / BOOK XV / BOOK XVI / ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS.; lines 7025-7122 | high | Eumaeus reacts to Telemachus’ arrival by dropping wine bowls, kissing and embracing him, weeping for joy, and speaking as one who feared he would never see him again; the narration compares the joy to a father receiving a long-absent only son and says he embraced him as though he had come back from the dead. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | ULYSSES IN THE HUT WITH EUMAEUS. / BOOK XV / BOOK XVI / ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS.; lines 7025-7122 | medium | Ulysses says he is shocked by the suitors’ insolence and declares that if he were as young as Telemachus, or were Ulysses himself, he would rather die fighting in his own house than see strangers mistreated, women servants dragged about, wine wasted, and bread consumed to no purpose. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | ULYSSES IN THE HUT WITH EUMAEUS. / BOOK XV / BOOK XVI / ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS.; lines 7124-7222 | high | Ulysses says no other Ulysses will come, identifies himself as the one returned in the twentieth year, and explains that Minerva can make him appear as a beggar or as a young man in good clothes. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | ULYSSES IN THE HUT WITH EUMAEUS. / BOOK XV / BOOK XVI / ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS.; lines 7124-7222 | high | Ulysses denies being a god, says he is Telemachus' father, kisses his son, and lets a tear fall from his cheek to the ground. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | ULYSSES IN THE HUT WITH EUMAEUS. / BOOK XV / BOOK XVI / ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS.; lines 7224-7319 | high | Ulysses says the Phaeacians escorted him over the sea to Ithaca while he slept, gave him bronze, gold, and raiment now concealed in a cave, and that he came on Minerva's suggestion to plan against their enemies. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | ULYSSES IN THE HUT WITH EUMAEUS. / BOOK XV / BOOK XVI / ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS.; lines 7321-7414 | high | Amphinomus sees the ship inside the harbour and says they need not send a message because the ship is already there. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | ULYSSES IN THE HUT WITH EUMAEUS. / BOOK XV / BOOK XVI / ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS.; lines 7321-7414 | high | Eumaeus returns to Ulysses and Telemachus as they prepare supper after sacrificing a young pig; Minerva turns Ulysses into an old man with a stroke of her wand and clothes him in old garments so the swineherd will not recognize him or tell Penelope. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | ULYSSES IN THE HUT WITH EUMAEUS. / BOOK XV / BOOK XVI / ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS.; lines 7416-7431 | medium | “On hearing this Telemachus smiled to his father, but so that Eumaeus could not see him.” | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XV / BOOK XVI / ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS. / BOOK XVII; lines 7434-7526 | high | Euryclea sees Telemachus, runs to him crying, and the maids come up and kiss his head and shoulders. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XV / BOOK XVI / ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS. / BOOK XVII; lines 7434-7526 | medium | At dawn Telemachus puts on sandals, takes a spear, says he will go to town to show himself to his mother, and tells the swineherd to take the unfortunate stranger to town to beg for drink and bread. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XV / BOOK XVI / ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS. / BOOK XVII; lines 7528-7613 | high | Menelaus says the suitors would usurp a brave man's bed and compares them to young animals in a lion's lair; the returning lion will make short work of them, as Ulysses would of the suitors. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XV / BOOK XVI / ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS. / BOOK XVII; lines 7528-7613 | medium | Ulysses throws a shabby tattered wallet over his shoulders, receives a stick from Eumaeus, and follows him in rags, looking like a broken-down old tramp leaning on a staff. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XV / BOOK XVI / ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS. / BOOK XVII; lines 7615-7715 | high | Melanthius mocks Ulysses as a miserable beggar, calls him unfit for honorable gifts or work, and says stools will be thrown at him if he approaches Ulysses' house. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XV / BOOK XVI / ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS. / BOOK XVII; lines 7615-7715 | high | Melanthius mocks Ulysses as a miserable beggar, calls him unfit for honorable gifts or work, and says stools will be thrown at him if he approaches Ulysses' house. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XV / BOOK XVI / ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS. / BOOK XVII; lines 7615-7715 | high | Argos, bred by Ulysses before Troy and formerly used for hunting, lies neglected on mule and cow dung heaps and is full of fleas. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XV / BOOK XVI / ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS. / BOOK XVII; lines 7615-7715 | medium | Melanthius reaches the house, sits among the suitors opposite Eurymachus, and receives meat and bread from servants. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XV / BOOK XVI / ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS. / BOOK XVII; lines 7615-7715 | high | Eumaeus prays to the fountain nymphs, children of Jove, that heaven may send Ulysses home to end the insults and bad shepherding of men like Melanthius. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XV / BOOK XVI / ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS. / BOOK XVII; lines 7717-7818 | medium | Ulysses enters looking like a poor miserable old beggar, leaning on a staff, wearing rags, and sits on an ash-wood threshold by a cypress-wood bearing-post. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XV / BOOK XVI / ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS. / BOOK XVII; lines 7820-7923 | high | Antinous insults the beggar, orders him out, refuses food, and Ulysses replies that Antinous would not give a poor man salt or bread. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XV / BOOK XVI / ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS. / BOOK XVII; lines 7925-7968 | high | Ulysses tells Eumaeus he will speak truthfully to Penelope, fears the cruel suitors, reports being struck, and asks to wait until sundown to sit near the fire and answer questions about her husband's return. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XVI / ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS. / BOOK XVII / BOOK XVIII; lines 7971-8072 | high | Book XVIII opens with a common tramp named Arnaeus, called Irus, who begs around Ithaca and insults Ulysses, trying to drive him from the doorway of his own house. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XVI / ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS. / BOOK XVII / BOOK XVIII; lines 8074-8175 | high | Ulysses puts a dirty tattered wallet over his shoulder, sits on the threshold, and is mocked by suitors who invoke the gods and threaten to send him to king Echetus. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XVI / ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS. / BOOK XVII / BOOK XVIII; lines 8177-8277 | high | Telemachus tells Penelope that the stranger defeated Irus and wishes Jove, Minerva, and Apollo would make all the suitors as helpless as Irus at the outer gate. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XVI / ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS. / BOOK XVII / BOOK XVIII; lines 8279-8350 | high | Eurymachus addresses Ulysses as stranger, offers servant work building fences or planting trees, and accuses him of preferring begging to labor. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS. / BOOK XVII / BOOK XVIII / BOOK XIX; lines 8353-8450 | high | Ulysses remains in the cloister planning, with Minerva’s help, to kill the suitors; he tells Telemachus to remove the armour and give excuses involving smoke and the danger of drunken quarrels over weapons. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS. / BOOK XVII / BOOK XVIII / BOOK XIX; lines 8452-8531 | high | Ulysses asks Penelope not to seek his race and family, saying such memories would increase his sorrow and that continual grieving in another's house is improper. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | HENRY FESTING JONES. / THE ODYSSEY / BOOK I / BOOK II; lines 851-936 | high | Halitherses, called the best prophet and omen-reader among them, says mischief is brewing for the suitors and that Ulysses is close at hand to deal out death and destruction. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS. / BOOK XVII / BOOK XVIII / BOOK XIX; lines 8533-8618 | high | Penelope weeps as she listens, compared to snow thawing into water-filled rivers; Ulysses feels pity but restrains his tears while sitting beside her. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS. / BOOK XVII / BOOK XVIII / BOOK XIX; lines 8620-8703 | high | Euryclea prepares a cauldron with cold and hot water; Ulysses sits by the fire and turns from the light because he fears she will recognize a scar on his leg. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS. / BOOK XVII / BOOK XVIII / BOOK XIX; lines 8705-8786 | high | Euryclea looks toward Penelope as if to tell her, but Minerva diverts Penelope’s attention. Ulysses restrains Euryclea and orders her not to reveal him, saying he has returned after twenty years of wandering and warning her of consequences if she speaks. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS. / BOOK XVII / BOOK XVIII / BOOK XIX; lines 8788-8861 | high | The eagle says that the geese are the suitors and that it is Penelope’s own husband returned to bring them to a disgraceful end. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XVII / BOOK XVIII / BOOK XIX / BOOK XX; lines 8864-8959 | high | Ulysses lies in the cloister on a bullock’s hide, sheep skins, and a cloak; he lies awake brooding on how to kill the suitors; laughing women leave the house after being with the suitors, provoking his anger. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XVII / BOOK XVIII / BOOK XIX / BOOK XX; lines 8961-9043 | medium | The maids light the hearth fire. Telemachus arms himself and asks Euryclea about the stranger's bed and board; Euryclea says the stranger drank wine, declined more bread, refused bed and blankets, and slept on a bullock hide and sheepskins with a cloak. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XVII / BOOK XVIII / BOOK XIX / BOOK XX; lines 9045-9146 | high | Philoetius greets the poor stranger, says he reminds him of Ulysses, laments the possibility that Ulysses is dead in Hades, describes the suitors consuming cattle and seeking Ulysses’ property, and says he still believes his master will return. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XVII / BOOK XVIII / BOOK XIX / BOOK XX; lines 9045-9146 | high | Philoetius greets the poor stranger, says he reminds him of Ulysses, laments the possibility that Ulysses is dead in Hades, describes the suitors consuming cattle and seeking Ulysses’ property, and says he still believes his master will return. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XVII / BOOK XVIII / BOOK XIX / BOOK XX; lines 9148-9215 | medium | Theoclymenus says he has his own eyes, ears, feet, and understanding mind; he sees mischief overhanging those insulting and plotting ill in Ulysses' house, says none will escape, and goes back to Piraeus, who welcomes him. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XVIII / BOOK XIX / BOOK XX / BOOK XXI; lines 9218-9315 | medium | The bow's history is recounted: Iphitus and Ulysses meet while pursuing lost livestock; Iphitus gives Ulysses the bow, Ulysses gives a sword and spear in return, and Hercules later kills Iphitus as his guest and keeps the mares. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XVIII / BOOK XIX / BOOK XX / BOOK XXI; lines 9317-9414 | high | Outside the gates, Ulysses asks the stockman and swineherd whether they would support Ulysses or the suitors; the stockman and Eumaeus express longing for Ulysses’ return, after which Ulysses reveals himself and promises rewards if heaven delivers the suitors to him. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | HENRY FESTING JONES. / THE ODYSSEY / BOOK I / BOOK II; lines 938-1036 | medium | Mentor says the Ithacans have forgotten Ulysses, who ruled like a father, and criticizes them for sitting still instead of stopping the suitors, though the people are many and the suitors few. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XVIII / BOOK XIX / BOOK XX / BOOK XXI; lines 9505-9596 | high | Ulysses handles and examines the bow to see whether worms damaged its horns during his absence, while bystanders mock him as a tricky old bow-fancier. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XIX / BOOK XX / BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII; lines 9599-9707 | high | Ulysses tells the suitors they thought he would not return from Troy, accuses them of wasting his goods, abusing women servants, wooing his wife, and fearing neither God nor man, and says they shall die. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XIX / BOOK XX / BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII; lines 9599-9707 | medium | Ulysses tears off his rags, takes his bow and quiver, lays arrows at his feet, and says the contest is ended before aiming at another mark. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XIX / BOOK XX / BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII; lines 9599-9707 | medium | Amphinomus attacks Ulysses at the door, and Telemachus strikes him from behind with a spear before returning to his father's side. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XIX / BOOK XX / BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII; lines 9709-9805 | medium | After leaving Melanthius in cruel bondage, the allies arm themselves and return to Ulysses; four men stand in the cloister while the suitors remain many in the court. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XIX / BOOK XX / BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII; lines 9807-9908 | medium | Ulysses and his companions strike back: Ulysses hits Eurydamas and Agelaus, Telemachus hits Amphimedon and Leocritus, Eumaeus hits Polybus, and the stockman kills Ctesippus after taunting him. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XIX / BOOK XX / BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII; lines 9910-10015 | medium | A spared man asks that Ulysses be told not to kill him; Ulysses says Telemachus has saved his life and sends him and the bard outside while he finishes the slaughter. | record |
| Sufi | The Persian Mystics: Jámí | THE BEAUTY OF ZULAIKHA / SELF DIES IN LOVE / THE FREEING OF ZULAIKHA'S SOUL / BREAKING THE IDOL; lines 1611-1655 | medium | She says she wronged herself by turning her eyes to an idol, asks that the dark stain of sin be washed away, and prays for restored blessing and a rose from Yúsuf's garden. | record |
| Sufi | The Persian Mystics: Jalálu'd-dín Rúmí | REMEMBER GOD AND FORGET SELF / MORTALITY AND IMMORTALITY / THE BELOVED THE DIVINE CONSOLER / THE SEA OF LOVE; lines 1032-1045 | medium | Mankind is likened to waterfowl sprung from the Sea of Soul; the bird has risen from that Sea; humans are pearls abiding in it; waves follow from it. | record |
| Sufi | The Persian Mystics: Jalálu'd-dín Rúmí | ASPIRATION / THE JOURNEY TO THE BELOVED / THE DAY OF RESURRECTION / THE RETURN OF THE BELOVED; lines 1266-1293 | high | The section titled “THE RETURN OF THE BELOVED” says the Beloved returns at night, urges the addressee not to eat opium and to close the mouth against food, and describes a cup-bearer, an assembly, and a circle. | record |
| Sufi | The Persian Mystics: Jalálu'd-dín Rúmí | THE DAY OF RESURRECTION / THE RETURN OF THE BELOVED / THE CALL OF THE BELOVED / THY ROSE; lines 1392-1440 | medium | Love-moved souls circle like streams toward an Ocean King; the addressee is called the Sun of men's thoughts, associated with spring flowers, and praised as the Rose for whom nightingales sing. | record |
| Sufi | The Persian Mystics: Jalálu'd-dín Rúmí | EDITORIAL NOTE / INTRODUCTION / V. ANALYSIS OF THE RELIGION OF LOVE / I. LIFE; lines 709-760 | high | Rúmí says that when the human spirit, after imprisonment in the body, is set free and flies to the Source whence it came, the event calls for rejoicing, thanks, and dancing. | record |
| Sufi | The Persian Mystics: Jalálu'd-dín Rúmí | A CRY TO THE BELOVED / REMEMBER GOD AND FORGET SELF / MORTALITY AND IMMORTALITY / THE BELOVED THE DIVINE CONSOLER; lines 983-1029 | high | The voice of Love comes every moment from left and right. The speakers are bound for heaven, have been in heaven and friends of angels, and ask to return there as their country. | record |
| Greek | Phaedrus | Phaedrus / PHAEDRUS / INTRODUCTION.; lines 63-152 | medium | The introduction connects Phaedrus with Symposium, says the two contain Plato's philosophy of love, joins love with philosophy, and describes an ideal sought as recovery from a former state of existence. | record |
| Greek | Phaedrus | Phaedrus / PHAEDRUS / INTRODUCTION.; lines 804-884 | high | At the completion of ten thousand years all return to their place of origin, but the return is also represented as depending on good conduct in successive stages of existence. | record |
| Greek | Phaedrus | Phaedrus / PHAEDRUS / INTRODUCTION.; lines 961-1037 | low | Michael Angelo or Shakespeare are imagined returning to earth and courteously rebuking people for putting preliminaries of art in place of art and for seeking artificial effects rather than living creations. | record |
| Sufi | Poems from the Divan of Hafiz | INTRODUCTION / FROM THE DIVAN OF HAFIZ / XVIII / XXIII; lines 2128-2257 | medium | The speaker declares that days of absence, bitter nights of separation, blighting stars, autumn abundance, and autumn mirth are at an end when spring wind moves over the earth. | record |
| Sufi | Poems from the Divan of Hafiz | XVIII / XXIII / XXVII / XXVIII; lines 2337-2463 | high | “From Canaan Joseph shall return”; the poem tells the listener to weep no more and says roses will spring from the bare floor and joy shall return. | record |
| Sufi | Poems from the Divan of Hafiz | XXXIX / XLIII / NOTES / XVIII; lines 3472-3550 | high | Mahmud Shah Bahmani hears of Hafiz's fame, orders Mir Feiz Allah Inju to send travel money, and Hafiz accepts, settles affairs, pays debts, gives family gifts, and sets out. | record |
| Sufi | Poems from the Divan of Hafiz | XXXIX / XLIII / NOTES / XVIII; lines 3472-3550 | high | Hafiz boards the ship, but a violent storm arises before departure; he disembarks under a farewell pretext and quickly returns to Shiraz. | record |
| Sufi | Poems from the Divan of Hafiz | XXIII / XXVIII / XXXIII / XXXIV; lines 3781-3859 | medium | Traditional expansion: Gabriel, Michael, and Israfil fail to take clay after the earth’s plea; Azrail takes seven handfuls and promises the return of human substance to earth after death. | record |
| Sufi | Poems from the Divan of Hafiz | GERTRUDE LOWTHIAN BELL / LONDON / WILLIAM HEINEMANN / INTRODUCTION; lines 415-498 | medium | Hafiz celebrates Shah Shudja’s accession and lifting of a wine edict with images of the wine-cup, the daughter of the grape emerging from retirement, and the heavens as a ball in the ruler’s polo stick. | record |
| Sufi | Poems from the Divan of Hafiz | GERTRUDE LOWTHIAN BELL / LONDON / WILLIAM HEINEMANN / INTRODUCTION; lines 500-592 | medium | Hafiz visited Shah Yahya at Yezd, found the reward inadequate, and wrote that while with him his cup was never filled with wine. | record |
| Sufi | Poems from the Divan of Hafiz | GERTRUDE LOWTHIAN BELL / LONDON / WILLIAM HEINEMANN / INTRODUCTION; lines 682-743 | medium | De Sacy says that if the Indian doctrine of Maya or Illusion had been transferred to Persia, mysticism based on all things emanating from God and returning to him may be traced to the same source. | record |
| Sufi | Poems from the Divan of Hafiz | GERTRUDE LOWTHIAN BELL / LONDON / WILLIAM HEINEMANN / INTRODUCTION; lines 745-790 | high | Losing the soul in God is described as return to pre-birth conditions; the passage compares this with the Phaedrus image of the soul’s chariot and says the Sufi soul longs to return to God through the mortal veil of the body. | record |
| Sufi | Poems from the Divan of Hafiz | GERTRUDE LOWTHIAN BELL / LONDON / WILLIAM HEINEMANN / INTRODUCTION; lines 745-790 | medium | The passage says Sufis find bodily resurrection difficult because a soul united with God would have to return to the body, described as the prison escaped at death. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | INVOCATION.(1) / BOOK I.(6) / OM.(8) / Canto III. The Argument.; lines 1239-1399 | high | Ráma speaks with Ocean, Nala builds a bridge, the forces cross and sit near Lanká, Vibhíshaṇ makes treaty, plans are laid against Rávaṇ, major foes die, Rávaṇ is slain, and Sítá is brought back. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto VI. The City Decorated. / Canto IX. The Plot. / Canto XV. The Preparations. / Canto XVIII. The Sentence.; lines 13147-13320 | high | With joined hands and reverent head, Rāma asks Kauśalyā to consent and bless him before banishment; he promises to return to Ayodhyā after the years are over. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto IX. The Plot. / Canto XV. The Preparations. / Canto XVIII. The Sentence. / Canto XXII. Lakshman Calmed.; lines 13617-13788 | high | “I in the wilds my days will spend / Till twice seven years have reached an end, / Then with great joy will come again” | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XXVIII. The Dangers Of The Wood. / Canto XXX. The Triumph Of Love. / Canto XXXII. The Gift Of The Treasures. / Canto XXXVII. The Coats Of Bark.; lines 16275-16414 | high | Daśaratha remains disquieted, cries out for Ráma, and says those in Ayodhyá will be blessed who see his son return when the time is over. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XXVIII. The Dangers Of The Wood. / Canto XXX. The Triumph Of Love. / Canto XXXII. The Gift Of The Treasures. / Canto XXXVII. The Coats Of Bark.; lines 16417-16587 | high | Sumitrá predicts Ráma’s return, his bowing at Kauśalyá’s feet, and his royal consecration with king-making drops. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XXXII. The Gift Of The Treasures. / Canto XXXVII. The Coats Of Bark. / Canto XLVI. The Halt. / Canto XLIX. The Crossing Of The Rivers.; lines 18870-18969 | high | Kauśalyā says that after fourteen years she doubts Bharat will yield wealth and government; she argues that Ráma will reject such kingship as leftovers, using funeral-feast, Brahman, animal, and sacrificial analogies. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto LXII. Dasaratha Consoled. / Canto LXVI. The Embalming. / Canto LXVII. The Praise Of Kings. / Canto LXVIII. The Envoys.; lines 20171-20343 | high | Bharat travels east from the royal town, crossing or passing Sudāmā, Hlādini, Śatadrū, Śilā, Akurvatī, Ágneya, Śalyakartan, Śilāvahā, hills, and Chaitraratha wood. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto LXII. Dasaratha Consoled. / Canto LXVI. The Embalming. / Canto LXVII. The Praise Of Kings. / Canto LXVIII. The Envoys.; lines 20622-20786 | high | Bharat asks whether the queen chased Kausalya’s son to the wild wood with bark around his waist and failed to sorrow for it. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto LXVIII. The Envoys. / Canto LXXV. The Abjuration. / Canto LXXVI. The Funeral. / Canto LXXVII. The Gathering Of The Ashes.; lines 21310-21424 | medium | Bharat circles the sacred gear and declares: “The eldest son is ever king”; he says Ráma shall rule and orders forces to be assembled so he can bring his elder brother back. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto LXXVII. The Gathering Of The Ashes. / Canto LXXX. The Way Prepared. / Canto LXXXI. The Assembly. / Canto LXXXII. The Departure.; lines 21596-21735 | high | Bharat joins his hands, says he will greet Ráma in the pathless shade, declares Ráma his king, and states that if he cannot bring him back he will dwell in the wood with Ráma and Lakshmaṇ; he also says pioneers have been sent to clear the road. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto LXXX. The Way Prepared. / Canto LXXXI. The Assembly. / Canto LXXXII. The Departure. / Canto LXXXIII. The Journey Begun.; lines 21738-21906 | high | Bharat rises early, drives in a noble chariot toward Ráma, and is accompanied by priests, lords, elephants, cars, fighting men, archers, and the royal women Kaikeyí, Sumitrá, and Kauśalyá; the procession speaks joyfully of seeing Ráma. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto LXXXI. The Assembly. / Canto LXXXII. The Departure. / Canto LXXXIII. The Journey Begun. / Canto LXXXV. Guha And Bharat.; lines 21930-22110 | high | “He is my eldest brother, he / Is like a father dear to me. / I go to lead my brother thence / Who makes the wood his residence.” | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto LXXXII. The Departure. / Canto LXXXIII. The Journey Begun. / Canto LXXXV. Guha And Bharat. / Canto XC. The Hermitage.; lines 22416-22555 | high | Bharat tearfully denies approving his mother’s words or intending harm; he says he seeks Ráma’s grace, will fall at his brother’s feet, and wishes to lead him to the royal seat. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto LXXXIII. The Journey Begun. / Canto LXXXV. Guha And Bharat. / Canto XC. The Hermitage. / Canto XCVIII. Lakshman Calmed.; lines 23639-23817 | high | Bharat says he will not rest until he sees Ráma, Lakshmaṇ, and Sítá, places Ráma’s feet on his head, and sees Ráma regain hereditary rule with consecrating drops poured on him. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto LXXXV. Guha And Bharat. / Canto XC. The Hermitage. / Canto XCVIII. Lakshman Calmed. / Canto C. The Meeting.; lines 23820-23971 | medium | Bharat shows the spot to Shatrughna, bids Saint Vaśishṭha bring the king’s widowed consorts, and proceeds, followed closely by Sumantra. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XC. The Hermitage. / Canto XCVIII. Lakshman Calmed. / Canto C. The Meeting. / Canto CI. Bharata Questioned.; lines 23974-24121 | high | Bharata asks Rama to accept the royal sway as anointed king, says the land is forlorn without him, and invokes the venerable advisers’ supplication. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XCVIII. Lakshman Calmed. / Canto C. The Meeting. / Canto CI. Bharata Questioned. / Canto CIII. The Funeral Libation.; lines 24240-24301 | high | Ráma retraces his path up the pleasant mountain side, reaches his cottage door, and strains his brothers to his breast. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto C. The Meeting. / Canto CI. Bharata Questioned. / Canto CIII. The Funeral Libation. / Canto CIV. The Meeting With The Queens.; lines 24304-24458 | high | “This now, my lord, I yield to thee”; Bharata says the government was given to him and declares Ráma alone able to bear the burden. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto C. The Meeting. / Canto CI. Bharata Questioned. / Canto CIII. The Funeral Libation. / Canto CIV. The Meeting With The Queens.; lines 24571-24710 | high | Bharata argues that consecration is the chief duty of a king, asks Rama to rule the four castes, and says the fathers’ realm should obey its rightful king. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto C. The Meeting. / Canto CI. Bharata Questioned. / Canto CIII. The Funeral Libation. / Canto CIV. The Meeting With The Queens.; lines 24713-24863 | medium | Jābāli urges Rāma not to reject the hereditary throne, but to return to Ayodhyā and be enthroned with royal rites. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CI. Bharata Questioned. / Canto CIII. The Funeral Libation. / Canto CIV. The Meeting With The Queens. / Canto CIX. The Praises Of Truth.; lines 24866-25039 | medium | Rama asks how he can break the commandments his father spoke when he is true, faithful, and bound by his word of honour. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CIV. The Meeting With The Queens. / Canto CIX. The Praises Of Truth. / Canto CXI. Counsel To Bharat. / Canto CXII. The Sandals.; lines 25311-25474 | high | “Through fourteen seasons will I wear / The hermit’s dress and matted hair... / The rule and all affairs of state / I to these shoes will delegate.” | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CIV. The Meeting With The Queens. / Canto CIX. The Praises Of Truth. / Canto CXI. Counsel To Bharat. / Canto CXII. The Sandals.; lines 25476-25637 | high | Ayodhyá is described through images of darkness, eclipse, dried streams, unfed sacrificial fire, defeated armies, shaken earth, and a fallen star, all emphasizing its mournful lost estate. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CIV. The Meeting With The Queens. / Canto CIX. The Praises Of Truth. / Canto CXI. Counsel To Bharat. / Canto CXII. The Sandals.; lines 25476-25637 | medium | After seeing each widowed queen lodged in her home, Bharat tells his holy guides he will go to Nandigrám, bear grief there, and wait until Ráma returns to rule the realm as rightful lord. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CIV. The Meeting With The Queens. / Canto CIX. The Praises Of Truth. / Canto CXI. Counsel To Bharat. / Canto CXII. The Sandals.; lines 25639-25819 | high | Bharat deposits the sacred pledge, calls for a kingly canopy for the sandals, commands reverence to them as Rama’s feet, and says they will maintain right and law until Rama returns. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CXII. The Sandals. / Canto CXIX. The Forest. / BOOK III. / Canto I. The Hermitage.; lines 26575-26704 | high | The prostrate giant recognizes Rāma, names the Maithil dame and Lakṣmaṇ, says he was Tumburu, and explains that Kuvera cursed him until Rāma destroys him, after which he will regain his proper shape and heaven. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XXVIII. Khara Dismounted. / Canto XLIII. The Wondrous Deer. / Canto XLVI. The Guest. / Canto LI. The Combat.; lines 34031-34186 | medium | Sita replies to Ravana by naming Rama as her husband, son of Dasaratha, and ally of Lakshmana; she predicts Rama's arrows and fury will kill Ravana and free her. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XXVIII. Khara Dismounted. / Canto XLIII. The Wondrous Deer. / Canto XLVI. The Guest. / Canto LI. The Combat.; lines 34370-34493 | medium | Ráma and Lakshmaṇ hasten to Janasthán; worn by toil, thirst, hunger, doubt, and anguish, Ráma searches the leafy home and familiar places, finds Sítá absent, and sinks down in grief. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XLIII. The Wondrous Deer. / Canto XLVI. The Guest. / Canto LI. The Combat. / Canto LX. Lakshman Reproved.; lines 35564-35737 | medium | Jatayus says Ravana, king of giants, stole Sita, used magic with wind, cloud, and shade, cut Jatayus's wings, flew south with Sita, and will soon be slain by Rama, who will regain Sita. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto LI. The Combat. / Canto LX. Lakshman Reproved. / Canto LXX. Kabandha. / BOOK IV.; lines 37608-37782 | medium | Hanuman is pleased and thinks Sugriva may be restored to kingship because a mighty helper has come. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto LXX. Kabandha. / BOOK IV. / Canto V. The League. / Canto VI. The Tokens.; lines 38276-38433 | medium | Sugriva says Bali oppressed him, dispossessed him of kingship, took his consort, chained friends, and seeks his death. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto LXX. Kabandha. / BOOK IV. / Canto V. The League. / Canto VI. The Tokens.; lines 38276-38433 | high | Believing Bali slain, Sugriva closes the cave with a huge rock, gives offerings to Bali's shade, and returns to Kishkindha, where the lords eventually place him on Bali's throne. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto LXX. Kabandha. / BOOK IV. / Canto V. The League. / Canto VI. The Tokens.; lines 38436-38573 | medium | Bali leaves Sugriva a single robe, sends him into banishment, takes his wife from his side, and Sugriva roams in fear or dwells on Rishyamuka hill while sorrowing for his consort. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XIV. The Challenge. / Canto XXVI. The Coronation. / Canto XXVIII. The Rains. / Canto XXXI. The Envoy.; lines 42087-42234 | high | Tara asks Lakshman to slake his fury, says Sugriva would give up family and wealth for Rama, and says Rama will be reunited with Sita like the Moon with Rohini. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XLIII. The Army Of The North. / Canto XLIV. The Ring. / Canto XLV. The Departure. / Canto XLVII. The Return.; lines 43268-43440 | high | After a weary month, search parties return to Praśravaṇ hill: Vinata from the east, Śatabali from the north, and Susheṇ from the west, all coming to Sugríva where he sits with Ráma. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XLV. The Departure. / Canto XLVII. The Return. / Canto L. The Enchanted Cave. / Canto LII. The Exit.; lines 43568-43738 | medium | The ascetic woman says the living scarcely return from the cave to daylight, but she will free them through penance, fasting, and holy rite; she instructs them to close their eyes. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XLV. The Departure. / Canto XLVII. The Return. / Canto L. The Enchanted Cave. / Canto LII. The Exit.; lines 43741-43899 | medium | Hanumán warns Angad that Vánars are fickle and will not abandon Sugríva; if Angad stays in the cave, Lakshmaṇ’s shafts will rend the walls, cleave the mountain, and pierce him. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XLV. The Departure. / Canto XLVII. The Return. / Canto L. The Enchanted Cave. / Canto LII. The Exit.; lines 44197-44375 | medium | Sampati says he learned the lady’s fate after being burned by the sun, falling on Vindhya, lying in a seven-night swoon, and seeing the sea, rocks, watercourses, trees, creeper-covered cave, birds, and foaming waters. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XLV. The Departure. / Canto XLVII. The Return. / Canto L. The Enchanted Cave. / Canto LII. The Exit.; lines 44378-44417 | medium | “Forth from his side young pinions grew”; the speaker says the pinions consumed by the Lord of Day are restored through the anchorite’s grace and that his strength returns. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XLVII. The Return. / Canto L. The Enchanted Cave. / Canto LII. The Exit. / Canto LXIV. The Sea.; lines 44420-44484 | medium | Angad asks who will leap a hundred leagues across the deep, fulfill Sugríva’s promise, free the band from fear, and let them see Ráma, Lakshmaṇ, their king, families, and homes again. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XII. The Search Renewed. / Canto XIII. Despair And Hope. / Canto XIV. The Asoka Grove. / Canto XXXIII. The Colloquy.; lines 46843-47020 | medium | Hanuman says Rama has not yet learned Sita’s location, but will come with vanara hosts, bridge the way to the island, ruin the town, and is now grieving, fasting, waking, and weeping for Sita. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | The Ramayan of Valmiki / CONTENTS; lines 476-658 | medium | Titles include 'Hanumán Captured', 'Rávan', 'Prahasta’s Questions', 'Hanumán’s Reply', 'Vibhishan’s Speech', 'The Punishment', and 'The Burning Of Lanká'. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | The Ramayan of Valmiki / CONTENTS; lines 476-658 | medium | Titles include 'The Medicinal Herbs', 'The Night Attack', 'Rávan’s Lament', 'Rávan’s Sally', 'Rávan In The Field', 'Lakshman’s Fall', 'Lakshman Healed', 'Indra’s Car', 'Glory To The Sun', 'The Battle', 'Rávan’s Death', and related laments. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XLVI. The Captains. / Canto XLVII. The Death Of Aksha. / Canto LIII. The Punishment. / Canto LVI. Mount Arishta.; lines 47912-48013 | high | The Vanar host hears his triumphant shout; Jambavan tells them to rejoice because the Wind-God’s son returns with full success. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XLVII. The Death Of Aksha. / Canto LIII. The Punishment. / Canto LVI. Mount Arishta. / Canto LVIII. The Feast Of Honey.; lines 48016-48072 | medium | The omitted-canto note says Dadhimukh escapes and reports to Sugríva; Sugríva infers Hanumán and his band have succeeded, and sends them onward quickly. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto LIII. The Punishment. / Canto LVI. Mount Arishta. / Canto LVIII. The Feast Of Honey. / Canto LXV. The Tidings.; lines 48075-48164 | high | The Vánars reach Praśravaṇ’s hill, bow to Raghu’s sons, and, led by Angad, bow to their king. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto LVI. Mount Arishta. / Canto LVIII. The Feast Of Honey. / Canto LXV. The Tidings. / BOOK VI.(895); lines 48167-48308 | medium | Ráma hears Hanumán’s tale, praises his deed of crossing the sea, passing Lanká’s guarded portals, seeking Sítá, and returning uninjured. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto LVIII. The Feast Of Honey. / Canto LXV. The Tidings. / BOOK VI.(895) / Canto IV. The March.; lines 48311-48458 | medium | Lakshmana predicts Rama will regain his queen, drain Ravana’s life-blood, and return to Ayodhya; he lists favorable omens in breezes, animal cries, sky, planets, stars, brooks, fruiting boughs, and scented winds. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto LXV. The Tidings. / BOOK VI.(895) / Canto IV. The March. / Canto XI. The Summons.; lines 49087-49274 | high | Vibhishana warns Ravana not to keep Sita, compared to a deadly serpent, and urges him to restore her to Rama before woodland warriors surround the city and Rama's arrows strike. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XLII. The Sally. / Canto XLIII. The Single Combats. / Canto XLIV. The Night. / Canto L. The Broken Spell.; lines 52409-52579 | high | Sugríva tells Susheṇ to take the restored brothers to Kishkindhá while he remains to slay the tyrant and his kinsmen and bring back the Maithil lady, like Glory restored by Śakra. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CVI. Glory To The Sun. / Canto CVIII. The Battle. / Canto CIX. The Battle. / Canto CXIV. Vibhishan Consecrated.; lines 55739-55880 | medium | Hanuman praises Sita's words and asks her wish; she says she wants to see Rama. Hanuman promises she will see Rama, Lakshman, and their friends, then returns with her message. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CVIII. The Battle. / Canto CIX. The Battle. / Canto CXIV. Vibhishan Consecrated. / Canto CXVI. The Meeting.; lines 55883-56065 | medium | Ráma stands tearful and pensive, then tells King Vibhishaṇ to have Sítá bathe, dress her hair, and be brought in scented garments and gold ornaments. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CIX. The Battle. / Canto CXIV. Vibhishan Consecrated. / Canto CXVI. The Meeting. / Canto CXIX. Glory To Vishnu.; lines 56095-56231 | high | Brahma states that Queen Sita is Lakshmi, Rama's celestial spouse, and that Rama took his present form to free the worlds from Ravana; the tyrant is slain and the task is complete. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CXIV. Vibhishan Consecrated. / Canto CXVI. The Meeting. / Canto CXIX. Glory To Vishnu. / Canto CXXI. Dasaratha.; lines 56234-56393 | high | Maheśvar tells Ráma to restore peace to Bharat, comfort the queens, relieve his friends’ longing, and receive the kingdom of his fathers. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CXVI. The Meeting. / Canto CXIX. Glory To Vishnu. / Canto CXXI. Dasaratha. / Canto CXXIII. The Magic Car.; lines 56396-56450 | high | Ráma refuses the luxuries, saying faithful Bharat is waiting far away under a rigorous vow; he longs to stand by Bharat and see Ayodhyá, though the road is distant and difficult. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CXIX. Glory To Vishnu. / Canto CXXI. Dasaratha. / Canto CXXIII. The Magic Car. / Canto CXXIV. The Departure.; lines 56453-56519 | high | The allies reply that they wish to go with Rama to Ayodhya, see the royal consecration balm on his brows, pay homage to Kausalya, and then go home. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CXXI. Dasaratha. / Canto CXXIII. The Magic Car. / Canto CXXIV. The Departure. / Canto CXXV. The Return.; lines 56522-56608 | high | “Then Ráma, speeding through the skies, / Bent on the earth his eager eyes: / ‘Look, Sítá, see…’” | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CXXIII. The Magic Car. / Canto CXXIV. The Departure. / Canto CXXV. The Return. / Canto CXXVI. Bharat Consoled.; lines 56611-56789 | high | Rama summons Hanuman and orders him to speed to Ayodhya, stop at Shringavera with a message for Guha, greet Bharat, recount Rama's victory and return with Sita and Lakshman, and observe Bharat's feelings about kingship. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CXXIII. The Magic Car. / Canto CXXIV. The Departure. / Canto CXXV. The Return. / Canto CXXVI. Bharat Consoled.; lines 56611-56789 | medium | Rama summons Hanuman and orders him to speed to Ayodhya, stop at Shringavera with a message for Guha, greet Bharat, recount Rama's victory and return with Sita and Lakshman, and observe Bharat's feelings about kingship. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CXXIII. The Magic Car. / Canto CXXIV. The Departure. / Canto CXXV. The Return. / Canto CXXVI. Bharat Consoled.; lines 56792-56825 | medium | “In doubt and fear long years have passed / And glorious tidings come at last”; the speaker asks to hear Rama's woes, triumphs, loss, and gain. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CXXIV. The Departure. / Canto CXXV. The Return. / Canto CXXVI. Bharat Consoled. / Canto CXXIX. The Meeting With Bharat.; lines 56828-56995 | high | Bharat rejoices at the news and orders Śatrughna to decorate shrines, summon music and bards, call royal matrons, nobles, Brahmans, and warriors, and bring the king home in triumph. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CXXV. The Return. / Canto CXXVI. Bharat Consoled. / Canto CXXIX. The Meeting With Bharat. / Canto CXXX. The Consecration.; lines 56998-57165 | high | Bharat tells Ráma the realm is restored to its rightful lord, says he could scarcely bear the burden, and asks that the ancient consecrating drops be shed on the monarch’s head. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CXXV. The Return. / Canto CXXVI. Bharat Consoled. / Canto CXXIX. The Meeting With Bharat. / Canto CXXX. The Consecration.; lines 57167-57180 | medium | The chieftains are content with their honours and go homeward. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CXXVI. Bharat Consoled. / Canto CXXIX. The Meeting With Bharat. / Canto CXXX. The Consecration. / APPENDIX.; lines 57270-57284 | medium | “Having destroyed Rávaṇa ... together with his army and friends ... return to heaven” | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | CAREY AND MARSHMAN. / SCHLEGEL. / GORRESIO. / HIPPOLYTE FAUCHE.; lines 57582-57606 | medium | The Rámáyan is said to end with Ráma’s triumphant return with his rescued queen to Ayodhyá, followed by consecration and coronation in the ancestral capital. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | CAREY AND MARSHMAN. / SCHLEGEL. / GORRESIO. / HIPPOLYTE FAUCHE.; lines 57898-57933 | medium | Rama enters the Sarayu waters, and Brahma's voice from the sky addresses him as Vishnu, telling him to enter his own body as Vishnu or the eternal ether and naming Maya as his primeval spouse. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | SCHLEGEL. / GORRESIO. / HIPPOLYTE FAUCHE. / ADDITIONAL NOTES.; lines 58315-58446 | medium | Sita's children sing the Ramayan throughout the land and before Rama; the people see Rama's image in their faces, Valmiki declares them Rama's children and asks for Sita's recall, and Rama asks that public doubt be removed so Sita and her sons may be restored. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | HIPPOLYTE FAUCHE. / ADDITIONAL NOTES. / H. H. WILSON. / THE SUPPLIANT DOVE.; lines 59936-60014 | high | The Bharat-Miláp is described as the annual closing scene of Ráma’s victory and triumphant return, with processions, spectators, flowers, music, shouting, and joy. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | H. H. WILSON. / THE SUPPLIANT DOVE. / INDEX OF PRINCIPAL NAMES / FOOTNOTES; lines 61975-62090 | high | Vishnu is described as the second God of the Trimurti, pervader of all things, preserving power of nature, Saviour, nine times incarnate for the world’s good, and future descender to earth. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | THE SUPPLIANT DOVE. / INDEX OF PRINCIPAL NAMES / FOOTNOTES / ILIAD. XVII. 426.; lines 64029-64181 | medium | Rama regards a crow’s earlier flight high overhead as an omen of his separation from Sita and its later perching near him as a happy augury of her restoration. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | INDEX OF PRINCIPAL NAMES / FOOTNOTES / ILIAD. XVII. 426. / GORRESIO.; lines 64295-64428 | high | Merit from holy or austere life grants a temporary seat in bliss; when merit is exhausted, return to earth is unavoidable. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | INDEX OF PRINCIPAL NAMES / FOOTNOTES / ILIAD. XVII. 426. / GORRESIO.; lines 64295-64428 | high | Yayāti was invited to heaven by Indra, conveyed by Mātali, Indra’s charioteer, and afterwards returned to earth. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | FOOTNOTES / ILIAD. XVII. 426. / GORRESIO. / MACBETH.; lines 64430-64570 | low | Ashvatara is identified as a Naga or serpent chief under the earth and also as a Gandharva; the note discusses uncertain readings of Ashvatari, including a solar interpretation that brings back the moon from ocean and infernal regions. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | FOOTNOTES / ILIAD. XVII. 426. / GORRESIO. / MACBETH.; lines 65850-65967 | medium | A North-west recension addition has Sita ask that Tara and Vanar chiefs' wives accompany her to Ayodhya; the car descends and the Vanar matrons join the party. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | The Ramayan of Valmiki / CONTENTS; lines 93-277 | high | Book I opening titles include Invocation, Nárad, Brahmá’s Visit, Rishyasring, sacrifice decreed/begun/finished, Rávan Doomed, The Nectar, The Vánars, and The Birth Of The Princes. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto LXXII. The Gift Of Kine. / Canto LXXIII. The Nuptials. / Canto LXXV. The Parle. / Canto LXXVI. Debarred From Heaven.; lines 9432-9605 | medium | Rama cheerfully gives the bow to Varun, honors the saints, and tells Dasaratha that the host should continue to Ayodhya. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | CONTENTS / INVOCATION.(1) / BOOK I.(6) / OM.(8); lines 993-1155 | high | Gods and heavenly saints honor Ráma; by Heaven’s grace he raises slain chieftains to life and flies through the clouds in a magic chariot to Nandigráma. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 1616-1687 | low | The Homeric example describes a priest praying to Apollo that the Achaeans take Troy and return safely if Agamemnon gives back his daughter; the Greeks assent and Agamemnon becomes angry. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | BOOK IV. / BOOK V. / BOOK VI. / BOOK VII.; lines 18781-18911 | medium | A person coming suddenly from the sun back to the old situation would have eyes full of darkness. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | BOOK IV. / BOOK V. / BOOK VI. / BOOK VII.; lines 18913-19020 | medium | A returned ascender would compete in measuring shadows with prisoners who had never left the den, while his sight was still weak; others would say he went up and came back without his eyes. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | BOOK IV. / BOOK V. / BOOK VI. / BOOK VII.; lines 19022-19142 | high | The founders must compel the best minds to ascend until they arrive at the good; after they have ascended and seen enough, they must descend again among the prisoners in the den and share their labours and honours. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | BOOK IV. / BOOK V. / BOOK VI. / BOOK VII.; lines 20154-20256 | medium | The absolute good is the pattern for ordering the State, individual lives, and the rulers’ remaining lives. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | BOOK V. / BOOK VI. / BOOK VII. / BOOK VIII.; lines 21107-21266 | medium | Sometimes the democratic principle yields to the oligarchical; some desires die, others are banished, reverence enters the soul, and order is restored. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | BOOK V. / BOOK VI. / BOOK VII. / BOOK VIII.; lines 21268-21405 | medium | A battle is won; modesty and temperance are cast out, while moderation and orderly expenditure are driven beyond the border by evil appetites. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | BOOK VII. / BOOK VIII. / BOOK IX. / BOOK X.; lines 23923-24065 | medium | The speaker defends sending imitative poetry out of the State, says there is an ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry, cites hostile sayings, and acknowledges poetry's charm, especially in Homer. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | BOOK VII. / BOOK VIII. / BOOK IX. / BOOK X.; lines 24305-24376 | high | Er son of Armenius, a Pamphylian, is introduced as a hero who was slain in battle. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | BOOK VII. / BOOK VIII. / BOOK IX. / BOOK X.; lines 24483-24572 | high | After all souls choose, Lachesis sends each chosen genius as guardian and fulfiller; the genius leads the soul to Clotho and Atropos, where destiny is ratified and made irreversible, and the souls pass beneath Necessity’s throne. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | BOOK VII. / BOOK VIII. / BOOK IX. / BOOK X.; lines 24483-24572 | medium | The reporting messenger is hindered from drinking the water and cannot tell how he returned to the body; in the morning he wakes suddenly lying on the pyre. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 3196-3254 | medium | Socrates is addressed as earnest; Thrasymachus is mentioned; Socrates says he will try to convince Thrasymachus and mankind, or prepare for a future time when in another life similar discussions may be resumed. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 3736-3821 | high | The ascender descends into the old dwelling, sees poorly at first, is mocked as having lost his eyes, and any would-be liberator could be killed by the den inhabitants. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 4013-4089 | medium | The second gymnastic training of the soul lasts about five or six years from thirty; afterward the student goes down into the den, commands armies, and gains life experience for fifteen years. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 4241-4307 | high | The passage says the allegory has political and philosophical meaning; the den or cave represents the narrow sphere of politics or law, and the light of eternal ideas affects those who return to the lower world. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 4241-4307 | medium | The passage symbolizes two kinds of disordered eyesight: the captive transferred from darkness to day and the heavenly messenger who voluntarily descends into the den for the good of fellow-men. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 4571-4620 | medium | False spirits shut the castle gates, win the battle, ally with desires, banish modesty and temperance, and bring back vices crowned with garlands under new names. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 4623-4685 | medium | The protector may return from exile, face assassination plots, request and receive a bodyguard, and after crushing rivals stand in the chariot of State as a full-blown tyrant. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 5706-5773 | medium | The story of Er is introduced: Er, son of Armenius, is thought killed in battle, remains uncorrupted, is placed on a funeral pyre on the twelfth day, revives, and reports what he saw below. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 5857-5941 | medium | The souls travel in scorching heat to the plain of Forgetfulness, rest by the river Unmindful, and drink water that causes total forgetfulness if drunk beyond the required amount; Er is prevented from drinking. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 6284-6350 | high | The narrative includes a thousand-year pilgrimage, Ardiaeus, Er coming to life on the twelfth day, seven days in a meadow, four days to a column of light, a twentieth lot, souls blaming others, waters of Forgetfulness, Er not drinking, Odysseus desiring rest, Er's return to the body, and other souls shooting like stars to birth. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 6594-6666 | medium | The practical statesman sees these reflections as visionary; the philosopher sees them as possible and can imagine common property becoming as fixed as private property, asking whether the end may revert to the beginning. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 7874-7955 | medium | The passage reports dreams of a Golden Age that once existed, might exist in an unknown land, or might return in the remote future, contrasting this with the absence of an idea of regular progressive state growth. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 8241-8314 | medium | Hythloday says he would hardly have believed the tale “if I had not myself seen it with mine own eyes,” and refers to having lived in Utopia “five years and more.” | record |
| Sufi | The Sufism of the Rubáiyát, or, the Secret of the Great Paradox | The Sufism of the Rubáiyát, or, the Secret of the Great Paradox / PREFACE / THE AUTHOR. / NOTES; lines 1630-1725 | medium | The speaker bids farewell to the earthly home, asks forgiveness, asks that dust be mingled again with the addressed father/mother/teacher, imagines autumn blooms and winds at the tomb, and yields life forever in the mother's arms. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM / QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM / MONSIEUR J.B. NICOLAS / THE QUATRAINS OF KHAYYAM; lines 11006-11089 | medium | After the check at court, Hassan-Sebbah travels to Syria, adopts Ishmaelite dogmas, returns to Persia in concealment, recruits malcontents, and fortifies himself with disciples at Mount Alamout, raiding nearby country for supplies. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM / MONSIEUR J.B. NICOLAS / THE QUATRAINS OF KHAYYAM / THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 12913-13101 | medium | Those who have taken the long road have not returned to give news; the friend is warned not to hope in the sordid world because he will not return here. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | LXXIV. / LXXV. / TAMAM SHUD. / NOTES.; lines 1699-1823 | medium | Omar compares two persons to a pair of compasses with two heads and one body that fix a centre and come together at the end; Donne’s verses are quoted as a close parallel involving fixed and roaming compass feet and return to the start. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | LXXVII. / LXXXVI. / XCIX. / CVII.; lines 4636-4664 | medium | Quatrain XCIX asks where old acquaintances will meet after vernal heat and describes them greeting beneath a branch leaning over a wall and shedding blossoms. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | E.H. WHINFIELD, M.A. / INTRODUCTION / E.H. WHINFIELD / QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 8071-8296 | medium | No one who went before has returned to tell of the long road; when the addressee goes, he will return no more. | record |
| Greek | Symposium | Symposium / SYMPOSIUM / INTRODUCTION. / SYMPOSIUM; lines 1320-1353 | medium | Alcestis, daughter of Pelias, is willing to lay down her life on behalf of her husband when no one else will. | record |
| Greek | Symposium | Symposium / SYMPOSIUM / INTRODUCTION. / SYMPOSIUM; lines 1746-1831 | high | When one meets the other half of himself, the pair are absorbed in love, friendship, and intimacy, remain together, and feel an intense yearning of the soul beyond ordinary intercourse. | record |
| Greek | Symposium | Symposium / SYMPOSIUM / INTRODUCTION. / SYMPOSIUM; lines 1746-1831 | high | The speaker exhorts piety, calls Love lord, minister, and greatest benefactor, says Love leads people back to their own nature, and promises restoration, healing, happiness, and blessedness if humans are pious. | record |
| Greek | Symposium | Symposium / SYMPOSIUM / INTRODUCTION.; lines 64-148 | high | Orpheus, called a miserable harper, goes alive to Hades to bring back his wife, receives only an apparition, and is later punished by the gods for cowardliness. | record |
| Celtic Irish | The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge | HERE FOLLOWETH ILIACH'S CLUMP-FIGHT / HERE NOW THE DEER-STALKING OF AMARGIN IN TALTIU / THE ADVENTURES OF CUROI SON OF DARE FOLLOW NOW / THE REPEATED WARNING OF SUALTAIM; lines 13143-13262 | medium | The first stage of the Ulster march under Conchobar is from Emain to the green in Iraird Cuillinn. | record |
| Celtic Irish | The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge | HERE FOLLOWETH ILIACH'S CLUMP-FIGHT / HERE NOW THE DEER-STALKING OF AMARGIN IN TALTIU / THE ADVENTURES OF CUROI SON OF DARE FOLLOW NOW / THE REPEATED WARNING OF SUALTAIM; lines 13442-13563 | low | Ailill asks Fergus what the noise is; Fergus says it is the din of the Ulstermen arising from their pains and cutting down woods for their chariots, which drives the animals onto the plain. | record |
| Celtic Irish | The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge | HERE NOW THE DEER-STALKING OF AMARGIN IN TALTIU / THE ADVENTURES OF CUROI SON OF DARE FOLLOW NOW / THE REPEATED WARNING OF SUALTAIM / XXVII; lines 15342-15479 | medium | Cuchulain's twisting fit comes upon him; twenty-seven skin tunics and wound supports are described; his spring scatters bindings and dressings to named places and into the air; his wounds fill ditches and furrows with blood and gore. | record |
| Celtic Irish | The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge | THE ADVENTURES OF CUROI SON OF DARE FOLLOW NOW / THE REPEATED WARNING OF SUALTAIM / XXVII / XXVIII; lines 15754-15900 | medium | The bull turns north, sees Cualnge from Sliab Breg, is agitated at seeing his own land, approaches lamenting women, youths, and children, and tears up the earth at Cuib. | record |
| Persian | Persian Literature, Volume 1 | Zal, the son of Sam; exposure on Alberz, Simurgh fosterage, and return | medium | Sam leaves the mocked child on Alberz, but the Simurgh pities him on the rock and carries him to its own habitation. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | The Mesnevi, Book I, Proem, The Reed-Flute | high | The reed-flute tells of absence from its reed-bed and voices the grief and joy of the absent lover. | record |