item: #1 of 3
          id: 38230
      author: Moore, Thomas
       title: The Odes of Anacreon
        date: None
       words: 8687
      flesch: 88
     summary: [Illustration] Let them effuse the azure ray With which Minerva's glances play, And give them all that liquid fire That Venus' languid eyes respire. [Illustration] 'And dost thou smile?' said little Love; 'Take this dart, and thou mayst prove, That though they pass the breeze's flight,
    keywords: anacreon; bacchus; bowl; brow; dance; drink; heart; illustration; love; o'er; ode; rose; soul; thee; thou; thy; wine
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        item: #2 of 3
          id: 47157
      author: Symonds, John Addington
       title: Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol 1 of 2)
        date: None
       words: 158786
      flesch: 65
     summary: The one kind gave expression to strong personal emotion, and became a safety-valve for perilous passions; the other was choric and complex in its form; designed for public festivals and solemn ceremonials, it consisted chiefly of odes sung in the honor of gods and great men. The real thing to bear in mind is that great men and stirring events must have been remembered even in the mythopoeic age, and that to eliminate them from the national consciousness would have been impossible.
    keywords: achilles; action; agamemnon; age; antigone; aristotle; art; athens; beauty; character; chorus; days; death; divine; dorian; drama; earth; empedocles; end; euripides; eyes; fair; fancy; fate; father; fire; force; form; fragments; genius; gods; good; greece; greek; hand; heart; heaven; hector; helen; hellas; hero; hesiod; history; homer; homeric; house; human; iliad; imagination; justice; kind; king; language; life; light; literature; long; love; man; men; mind; modern; moral; mother; mythology; myths; nature; new; oedipus; order; parmenides; passion; patroclus; people; period; philosophy; pindar; place; plato; play; poems; poet; poetry; point; power; prometheus; public; race; reason; sea; second; self; sense; set; simonides; son; sophocles; soul; spirit; state; style; subject; sun; thebes; thee; theognis; theory; things; thought; thy; time; tragedy; troy; truth; universe; view; war; way; woman; words; work; world; years; youth; zeus; æschylus
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        item: #3 of 3
          id: 47236
      author: Symonds, John Addington
       title: Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol 2 of 2)
        date: None
       words: 133080
      flesch: 66
     summary: kai tous men katagousa palin sphairêdon aeirei, tous d' apo tôn nephelôn eis aïdên katagei.#[202] Here again, but cadenced in iambics, is the Flight of Time (ii. 266): #ô tês bracheias hêdonês tês tou biou; tên oxytêta tou chronou penthêsate; hêmeis kathezomestha kai koimômetha, mochthountes ê tryphôntes; ho de chronos trechei, trechei kath' hêmôn tôn talaipôrôn brotôn, pherôn hekastou tôi biôi katastrophên.#[203] kai tauta men drôn timios theois esei, mê drôn d' hyp' autou tou didaskesthai philein aphairethêsei charitas hais timôsi se.#[43] Nor is this without its tincture of respect: #andros d' horôntos eis kyprin neaniou aphylaktos hê têrêsis; ên gar phaulos êi tall' eis erôta pas anêr sophôteros.
    keywords: 8vo; action; agathon; anthology; aphrodite; aristophanes; aristotle; art; athenian; athens; attic; audience; beauty; bion; blood; body; calf; century; chapter; character; charm; children; chorus; cloth; clouds; comedy; comic; conception; conditions; criticism; day; dead; death; deep; divine; drama; earth; eis; electra; end; english; epigrams; euripides; example; expression; eyes; fact; fair; fancy; fate; father; feeling; fire; flowers; following; force; form; fragments; freedom; friend; gar; general; genius; god; gods; good; grave; greece; greek; ground; half; hand; heart; heaven; hellas; hero; history; home; honor; house; human; humanity; hôs; ideal; idyl; imagination; instance; interest; justice; kai; kind; language; law; laws; leander; leaves; life; light; lines; literature; love; maiden; man; matter; medea; meleager; men; menander; middle; mind; modern; moment; moral; morality; mother; music; nation; nature; need; new; order; orestes; ouk; passage; passing; passion; past; pathos; people; perfect; period; philosophy; picture; place; plato; play; pleasure; poem; poet; poetry; point; power; present; public; qualities; race; reason; scene; science; sculpture; sea; second; self; sense; set; shakespeare; sheep; son; song; sophocles; soul; spirit; spring; stage; strength; strong; study; style; subject; sun; sympathy; theatre; thee; theocritus; things; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; ton; tragedies; tragedy; truth; tôn; unity; universe; view; vols; waves; way; wine; women; words; work; world; years; youth; zeus; æschylus
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