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" THEY told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead ; They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept, as I remembered, how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. "
The Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire Magazine Devoted to History, Biography ... - Page 115
edited by - 1923
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The Living Age, Volume 198

1893 - 846 pages
...were yesterday when we sat and read together : — They told me, Heracleitus, they told me tlion wert dead ; They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. The volume of verse, the lirst which he published, given to me with his own hand, lies before me now....
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Ionica, Issue 30

William Johnson Cory - 1858 - 128 pages
...But oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die. El7T« TIC) Hpa/cAtJTS, T6OV fUtntiv. THEY told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead...news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept, as I remembered, how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. And now that...
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The Cornhill Magazine

William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1910 - 914 pages
...same bird which they listened to. We have it in the epitaph of Callimachus, in Cory's translation : They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead...bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed ; I wept when I remembered how often yon and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. And...
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Recitations at Whitnash rectory

Whitnash rectory - 1866 - 478 pages
...¿ffi Х£*Ра ßaXei. Callimachus. Tjp. JB quanta minus est cum aliis versari quam tui meminisse. They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead...news to hear, and bitter tears to shed. I wept, as I remembered, how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking, and sent him down the sky. And now...
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Sertum, a Greek reading book for the use of the fourth form at Eton

Sertum - 1869 - 114 pages
...the accusative of the object. 192- This is translated in * Ionica' : — " They told me, Heraclitas, they told me you were dead; They brought me bitter...news to hear and bitter tears to shed ; I wept, as I remembered, how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. And now that...
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The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 44

Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1892 - 996 pages
...Cory's imitation of the elegiacs of Callimachus on his friend Heracleitus: They told me, Heracleitus, they told me you were dead,— They brought me bitter...news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept, as I remembered how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. TURNING from...
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Studies of the Greek Poets, Volume 2

John Addington Symonds - Greek poetry - 1873 - 444 pages
...grace of movement and a tenderness of pathos that are unsurpassed : * * "They told me, Heracleitus, they told me you were dead ; They brought me bitter...news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept, as I remembered, how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. And now that...
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Musical Times and Singing Class Circular, Volume 32

Music - 1891 - 890 pages
...point, and we make no excuse for quoting the admirable version of it which appears in " Iónica " : — They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead...news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept as I remembered how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. But now that...
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Gossip in a Library

Edmund Gosse - English essays - 1891 - 360 pages
...hearing the news that the poet Heraclitus — not to be confounded with the philosopher — was dead. They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead...news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept, as I remembered, how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. dnd now that...
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Educational Review, Volume 38

Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - Education - 1909 - 582 pages
...is William Johnson's translation of the famous epigram of Callimachus : They told me, Heracleitus, they told me you were dead ; They brought me bitter...news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept as I remembered how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. And now that...
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