Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VI. Fancy. 1904. | | | | Poems of Sentiment: II. Life | | Fortune | | Sophocles (c. 496–406 B.C.) |
| | From the Greek by Richard Garnett
’TWIXT good and ill my wavering fortune see | |
| Swayed in capricious instability, | |
| Most like the moon, whose ceaseless wax and wane | |
| Cannot two nights the self-same form retain; | |
| Viewless at first, then a dim streak revealed, | 5 |
| Then slow augmenting to an argent shield; | |
| And when at length to fair perfection brought, | |
| Diminishing and dwindling quite to nought. | | | | |
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