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"For indeed I myself have seen, with my own eyes, the Sibyl hanging in a bottle at Cumae, and when those boys would say to her: 'Sibyl, what do you want?' she replied, 'I want to die.' "
From the Satyricon of Petronius (d. A.D. 66), chapter 48.
The Sibyl of Cumae, a prophetess of Apollo, was immortal without eternal youth. |
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"Oh, I have been struck a deadly blow, within!"
Aeschylus, Agamemnon, line 1343, Agamemnon's cry, heard from inside the palace, as he is murdered by his wife.
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"Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch." |
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"I am certainly no Russian, I come from Lithuania, a true German"
From The Waste Land, by T.S.Elliot for Ezra Pound. |
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CAEDMON'S HYMN
Nu Sculon Herigean Heofonrices Weard
Now we must praise heaven-kingdon's Guardian
Meotodes Meahte and his modgepanc
the Measurer's might and his mind-plans,
Weorc Wuldor-Faeder swa he wundra gehwaes
the work of the Glory-Father when he of wonders of every one,
ece Drihten or onstealde
eternal Lord the beginning established.
He aerest sceop Ielda bearnum
He first created for men's sons.
Heofon to hrofe halig Scyppend
heaven as a roof, holy Creator;
Da middangeard moncynnes Weard
then middle-earth mankind's Guardian,
ece Drihten aefter teode
eternal Lord, afterwards made--
Firum Foldan Frea aelmihtig
for men earth, Master Almighty. |
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Caedmon's "Hymn" is probably the earliest existant Old English poem. It was written in typical Western Anglo-Saxon Old English, however this particular poem shows more Germanic structure than middle-modern English. To learn more about Caedmon, one could read the Latin Exxlesiastical History of the English People; written by Bede (ca. 673-735) - Caedmon, an illiterate herdsman, is employed by the monastary of Whitby - where he miraculously recieves a gift of religious song; and becomes the founder of a Christian Poetry school. |
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