An excellent video from 1979 by Prof. David Grene (1913-2002) University of Chicago. 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 IHad tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. And […]
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Here bygynneth the Book of the tales of Caunterbury Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote,The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,And bathed every veyne in swich licóurOf which vertú engendred is the flour;Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breethInspired hath in every holt and heethThe tendre croppes, and the yonge sonneHath in the Ram his […]
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…But the Consul’s brow was sad,and the Consul’s speech was low,And darkly looked he at the wall,and darkly at the foe.“Their van will be upon us, before the bridge goes down;And if they once might win the bridge, what hope to save the town?” Then out spake brave Horatius,The Captain of the Gate:“To every man […]
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