Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. Volume III. Sorrow and Consolation. 1904.
II. Parting and Absence
Hector to His Wife
Homer (fl. 850 B.C.)
From the Greek by E. C. Hawtrey
From “The Iliad,” Book VI.
[The following extract is given as showing a more modern style of translation. It embraces the bracketed portion of the foregoing from Pope’s version.]
I TOO have thought of all this, dear wife, but I fear the reproaches
Both of the Trojan youths and the long-robed maidens of Troja,
If like a cowardly churl I should keep me aloof from the combat:
Nor would my spirit permit; for well I have learnt to be valiant,
Fighting aye ’mong the first of the Trojans marshalled in battle,
