Complete Fables of Gaius Julius Phaedrus. Illustrated

by Walt Whitman, Galway Kinnell (Selected by), Galway Kinnell (Introduction)

Overview

This carefully compiled collection includes prose translations and verse translations of Phaedrus fables.
Contents:
THE FABLES: PROSE TRANSLATION
THE NEW FABLES, BY SOME ATTRIBUTED TO PHÆDRUS
ÆSOPIAN FABLES. THE AUTHORS OF WHICH ARE NOT KNOWN
THE FABLES: VERSE TRANSLATION 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780880011365
Publisher:	Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Publication date:	09/24/2021
Series:	Essential Poets Series , #2
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	264
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years

About the Author

Gaius Julius Phaedrus was a 1st-century CE Roman fabulist and the first versifier of a collection of Aesop's fables into Latin. Few facts are known about him for certain and there was little mention of his work during late antiquity

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Song of Myself: A Poem of Walt Whitman, an American

1

I celebrate myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me, as good belongs to you.

I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer grass.

2

Houses and rooms are full of perfumes-the shelves are crowded with
perfumes,
I breathe the fragrance myself, and know it and like it,
The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it.

The atmosphere is not a perfume--it has no taste of the distillation,
it is odorless,
It is for my mouth forever--I am in love with it,
I will go to the bank by the wood, and become undisguised and naked,
I am mad for it to be in contact with me.