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DUBLIN UNIVERSITY PRESS SERIES.

DUBLIN TRANSLATIONS INTO

GREEK AND LATIN VERSE EDITED BY

ROBERT YELVERTON TYRRELL FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN AND REGIUS PROFESSOR OF GREEK

DUBLIN: HODGES FIGGIS & CO. GRAFTON-STREET

LONDON

:

LONGMANS GREEN & 1890

CO.

PATERNOSTER-ROW

: ;

BY BACCHAE

R.

TYRRELL.

Y.

London

of BTTBIPrpES.

Longmans

:

8tCo., 1871.

SCIIiES GIiOEIOSTTS

Macmillan & Co.

OF

PliATTTTTS.

London

and

ed., 1885

(ist ed., i88i

;

3rd ed., 1889).

TBOADES of EITBIPIBES. Nolan, 1889

(ist. ed.,

1881

Dublin ;

2nd

;

Browne and

ed., 1884).

ACHAKNIANS OF AHISTOPHAITES :—Translated into English Verse.

and Co.,

London

THE OOBRESPONDEirOE OF CICEKO.

Vol.

I.

Longmans

Bt.

TTTLLIUS

London: Longmans & Co.

1879; 2nd ed. 1885). Vol. III., 1890. (ist ed.,

:

1883.

Vol. II., 188S.

Printed ai The University Press, Duhliu.

TO

THE PROVOST, AND TO

THE SOCIETY OF

THE HOLY AND UNDIVIDED TRINITY NEAR DUBLIN

IS

DEDICATED.

PREFACE,

This

is

the

first

collection

which has ever been

made of Dublin Greek and Latin Verses.

In

1867 some translations by myself and two friends

were published under the

and

in

1869

I

set

title

Hesperidum Susurrl;

on foot a terminal College maga-

zine, called Kottabos, in

which translations into Greek

and Latin appeared, together with original English, Greek, and Latin verses, translations from ancient

and modern languages, and a few prose.

Most of the

translations

light essays in

now brought

to-

gether have already appeared in Hesperidum Susurri

and

Kottabos.

They

are

one or two exceptions, or have been,

all all

by Dublin men. the

contributors are,

Scholars of the House.

the translators are

With

now connected,

Some

of

or have been

PREFACE.

and Universities.

with other Colleges

connected,

Leech, and Ridgeway are Fel-

Messrs. Cullinan,

Mr. Davies

lows of their Colleges in Cambridge.

Galway

Mr. Crossley

is

Professor of Greek in Belfast; and Mr. Boulger

is

is

Professor of Latin in

Professor of Greek in Cork.

by these gentlemen

;

But

am

I

authorized

to state that their verses are,

in the fullest sense of the

word, Dublin Translations,

written under Dublin influences,

and as the result

of Dublin training.

suppose no apology

I

is

needed

a collection

for

Whatever opinion may be held on the

like this.

question whether versification should be requii-ed as a condition of success at examinations for prizes

and honors it

is

in classics,

it

can hardly be denied that

desirable to preserve the best efforts of those

who have study.

attained

skill in this

In truth, the

as a test, the

branch of classical

more verse-writing

is

disused

more reason does there appear

for the publication of

books

like this.

If the

to

be

com-

poser cannot secure as heretofore Scholarships and Fellowships by the exercise of his

art,

it

is

fair

PREFACE.

that he should at least have the chance to recom-

mend himself thereby scholars,

men

of letters,

good opinion

the

to

and men of

couraged than not,

the place which

now.

is

it

and never

Tripos.

Indeed,

test.

never was more en-

But verse-writing does

used to hold

may be

got with

verse composition.

But

the marks are so

allocated

in the

think

it

I

skill

in

at all these examinations

would be

steadily maintain a

men

Cambridge

or no

little

as

to

give a very

considerable advantage to the skilful I

not

Scholarships, Senior Moderatorships, even

Fellowships,

and

is

hold with us anything like

did, it

it

In

taste.

Trinity College, Dublin, verse-writing disused as a

of

difificult

position

at

composer,

for a student to

the

head of the

of his year without verse-writing.

have had throughout the invaluable aid of

friend Professor Davies,

and some of the principal

contributors have from time to time favoured

with suggestions.

But

my

I

was not able

proofs to the various contributors

—

me

to furnish

chiefly

because

they were widely scattered at the time when

I

was

PREFACE.

viii

making the compilation, and its

it

was desirable that

publication should not be too long delayed.

I

must therefore make myself, and not the contributors,

responsible for

any errors which

may be

found.

ROBERT 4,

Trin. Coll., Dublin, November, 18S.2.

Y.

TYRRELL.

INDEX OF FIRST LINES

translations into (Bxtzk, on thus you

If you go

will kill yourself

How now, my Lord why do you Hither came

at

noon Mournful CEnone

Die Sonne tout nach

O unexpected if

Though

Ye

man

a

that art so light of foot

serve law through all his

shining hosts is

kind

;

Orb

!

the idol

But, as he walk'd.

weU we know,

Of early

O

well for

Had I

the king

nature

King Arthur panted hard

Great honours are great burdens

Her arms

life

London

...... .....

and,

cease to care

Glorious

.

.

I could 'scape shot -free at

The king Can I

Weise

stroke, worse than of death

Nimble mischance, Child,

alter

Shakspkare

.

keep alone

!

;

but on

whom

across her breast she laid

him whose

Will is strong

beheld That sacrilege

.

Now is the winter of our discontent You aU

O

look strangely on

gentlemen, see, see

Thy

voice

is

!

me

;

and you most

dead Henry's wounds

heard thro' rolling drums

.

.

INDEX OF FIRST LINES.

Then

this

Shall

all

Where

most wretched father went

thy mother's hopes

in

his

way

one tomb

Claribel low-lieth

But now

Oh, that

I

farewell.

Early wert thou

Ye

lie

am

going a long way

this too, too solid flesh

quenchless stars

.

Mary

talien,

would melt

so eloquently bright

!

Liest thou here so low, the child of one

Death

closes all

Comrae avec In Love,

but something ere the end

;

irreverence

Love be Love,

if

if

Love be ours

Leucippus, thou art shot through with a shaft eine edle

This

is

Himmelsgabe

Une jeune guenon But

As

I

Kevin he was walkin'

My dearest love, see'st

since thou wilt go

with a lovelorn maiden's eyes

it

1 have of late (but wherefore I

•Relentless walls

But

!

know

.

not)

whose darksome round contains

as they left the darkening heath

Here a sheer hulk Strew on her This

is

lies

poor

Tom

Bowling

roses, roses

strange

:

your father's in some passion

Why did you melt your The

man

cueillit

remember

Saint

Thou

ist

no answer, thou unfeeling

waxen man,

Sister

Helen

flower that smiles to-day to-morrow dies

Had'st thou no poison mix'd, no sharp-ground knife

Then

tenfold round the

The beauty Meine Ruh' Abhorred

of Israel ist

slave,

is

body The roar of slain

on,

i'

.

hin

Which any print

Three children sliding on the

Come

battle rose

upon thy high places

ice

of goodness wilt not take .

God's name, once more toward our father's

INDEX OF FIRST LINES. Commend me to my loving countrymen And after these things I saw four angels Est in Carpathio Neptuni gurgite vates

Willkommen, schSner

How now, my lord ? why do you keep In these deep solitudes and awful

You have bestowed on me If it were done,

when

worship the king,

Whither away so

.

Jiingling

'tis

all

fast,

cells

a second

alone

.

.

life

done, then 'twere well

glorious above

Aristodemus

Strengthen ye the feeble hands

Well, though

What

if this

it

torture me,

'tis

but the same

cursed hand

Lo, I stand Here on

this

brow's crown of the

There was a king in Thule 1 see a man's

....

a tedious one

life is

city'i

.

This shalt thou Sustain not, nor thy son endure to

Make no deep Come,

is

Here she

To

scrutiny Into her mutiny

lies

a pretty

be, or not to

Shall

all

.

the bride ready to go to church

be

:

bud that

is

thy mother's hopes

the question lie in

one tomb

.

INDEX OF FIRST LINES.

Sweet Western "Wind

...

.

.

Fair the face of orient day

Come

with me, and be

live

Ye have

my love

not sowed in vain

But, as the devil would have

Meantime

How

how

calm,

Armour I

o'er rocky

am

glad I

You

am

Oh

here

is

laid

WiUiam,' the young man said

parted, swore

the girls that are so smart

Say, cruel

'

Iris,

pretty rake

.

.

...

the words that I have spoken

time I should speak to your father'

it's

!

Methinlis I fain would

What

!

lie

by

the lone sea

while our arms can wield these blades

When lovely woman stoops A plague of my master

to folly

.

Come, old

friend

Underneath

Come

not,

this

O many are

sit

!

down and

listen

marble herse

when

Strew on her

am dead

I

roses, roses

the beauteous isles

A widow bird sat mourning for her love How is Push

't,

ray noble lord

off the

boat

Thee Winter Stay

now

.

in the garland wears

thy hand

Moral improvement Oh, the praties they are small

Now

.

so acquit of this tinderbox

when we

Thyrsis,

Few

.

comes on

beautiful

are old. Father

Of all

.

rusting in his halls

An arch accountant '

it

Thrace and the deep vales

all

these charms, that beauteous grace

In Beauty or Wit

....

INDEX OF FIRST LINES. PAGE

Henceforward, too, the powers that tend the soul

The

.

merchant to secure his treasure

Glaucopis forsakes her

Poor

tree

own

a gentle mistress placed thee here

!

Tears, idle tears, I

know not what

This only grant me, that

Thou

.

mean

they

my means may lie

.

would I were Sleep

sleep'st, soft silken flower,

Break, break, break

am

batten'd well of late, grown lusty

Methinks

I

When we

for age could neither read nor write

Why, why

repine,

my pensive

friend

The mountain-ash deck'd with autumnal

When

Zephyr waves his balmy wings village, loveliest of the

Sweet smiling

Thy

braes were bonny.

Here

Go

lies

forth

Led

He

.

.

.

gone

some

brisk youth, the tenant of a stall

rose, that in the springtide ventures forth

is

The

for she is

lawn

by the jocund train of vernal hours

When The

!

.

Yarrow stream

our mutton-eating king

berries

gone on the mountain

fair

346

Prior

348

Lytton

350

Carlisle

352

Tennyson

354

Cowley

356

Merivale

358

Tennyson

360

Fletcher

362

Waller Landor Wordsworth Hemans

364

Goldsmith

372

Logan

374

Rochester

378

Hemans

380

lovibond

382

Fame, wisdom,

370

Byron

384

Graves

386

Incert

love,

368

Coleridge

A literary lady my flowers with

366

Scott

.

breeze blew, the white foam flew

She took

Tennyson

simple grace

and power were mine

...

392

Hartley

394

Byron

396

Herrick

398

Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain When the Devil was sick in bed He rose at dawn, and, fired with hope

Pope

400

Incert

404

Tennyson

406

There were two birds sat on a stone

G.

Gurton

408

As

Shelley

Here she

lies,

the moon's soft splendour

Come dowm,

O

Why, Damon, At

a pretty bud

the

maid, from yonder mountain height

with the forward day

mid hour of night, when

stars are

weeping, I

fly

410

Tennyson

412

Sewell

416

Moore

418

INDEX OP FIRST LINES. How seldom, And in Come,

The

friend, a

moment

a

give

good great man

after,

me back my

blossoms

world's great age begins

I no longer

.

.

anew

know my own house

.

Here's a bottle and an honest friend

But

their

way

Which when

No

.

...

.

his ladie saw, she follow'd fast

fish stir in

Why slumbers

Gifibrd

once was ask'd in vain

.'

sailors,

of Bristol city

The world's

a bubble, and the

What

my

life

of

man

Shakspeare, for his honoured bones

My pipe is lit my grog is ;

mix'd

Our

life is

carried with too strong a tide

The

bride

is

Idleness

dead

!

the bride

Dear as remembered

The

O

frail

is

dead

a stream which flows slowly on

is

kisses after death

flowers are dying

We sat on the steps, By

.

evening was

for the

warm

not in the wide world a vaUey so sweet

is

your truth she shall be true

Go up and watch Yes,

let

me

the

new-bom

like a soldier fall

rill

.

.

Lady Clara Vere de Vere

You

ask me, wondering,

She had Poor

.

.

.

thou hollow ship, that bearest

There

.

our heaving net

There were three

needs

inherits

wild Limours

left all

tree

!

on earth

why for

I sing

him

.

a gentle mistress placed thee here

Coleridge

INDEX OF FIRST LINES.

JFurtijer

translations into (greefe. PAGE

They've lost some gallant gentlemen

Come,

lovely and soothing

Death

There once was a lady of Russia

The

glories of our birth and state

.

... .

!

My name is Caius Marcius O ye laurels

Yet once more, There rose a

Yes

!

hill

that

.

and once more

none but man could climb

slain like Hector, smitten in the throat

Love, what

we

ail'd thee to leave life that

thought, with love

.

.

.

...

!

was made

497

W. Whitman

498

Lear

500

Shirley

502

E.

.

When hungry fowl go roosting soon Ho fiE me a flagon as deep as you please

Anon.

L. Collins

504

W. Melville

506

.

.

Shakspeare

508

.

.

Milton

510

.

.

Tennyson

512

.

.

Tyrrell

5X4

Swinburne

516

lovely,

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS.

[The numbers indicate the page on which each composition begins.]

Allen, Samuel,

101, 263, 281, 333, 351, 367, 389, 463, 496.

Barry, William R., Beare,

347.

J. I., 499, 507, 515.

Benson, Ralph Sillery,

295.

BouLGEK, Edward Vaughan,

271.

Brady, Thomas John Bellingham,

75, 251, 267, 283, 289, 305, 325, 335,

353, 363, 373, 399, 407, 429, 441, 465, 475, 481, 483, 495.

Bury, John

Collins,

B., 147, 167, 517.

Richard Henn,

Crossley, Hastings,

381.

35, 69, 75, 171, 261, 265, 275, 291, 309, 329, 341, 359,

387, 409, 425, 445.

CuLLiNAN,

Maxwell Cormac,

7,

29,

47,

65,

95,

115,

185,

197,

259,

343, 369.

Davies, John Fletcher,

3, 37, 57, 77, 99, 113, 129,

199, 239, 244, 249, 285, 317,

433, 469.

337,

365,

371,

143, 161, 173, 191,

375,

401,

419,

433,

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS.

De

Butts, George,

51.

Dickie, John, 489.

DowDALL, Latincelot,

131, 195, 205, 221, 231.

Flemyng, William W.,

41, 81, 137, 211, 239.

Gabbett, "William, 423, 439.

Graves, Alfred Percival, 313.

GwYNN, Edward,

513.

Hyde, John Oldfield,

471.

Hitchcock, Francis,

505.

Ingram, John Kells,

349.

JoYNT, Albert E., 503.

Keating, John,

383.

Keene, Charles Haines, Kelly, William H.,

189.

487.

Leech, Henry Brougham,

Maguire, Thomas,

Hartley, John,

19, 43, 135, 241, 311, 391, 421, 497.

395.

Mills, Townsknd,

79, 91, 365, 361.

Morgan, William Moore, Murray, John,

165, 246.

23, 413.

479.

Palmer, Arthur,

83, 297, 321, 455.

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS.

Quill, Albert,

27, 103.

RiDDALL, Walter,

87, 327.

RiDGEWAY, William, Roberts, William,

119, 201, 223.

63.

Sullivan, Edward, 431, 485. Starkir,

W.

J.

M., 509.

Tyrrell, Robert Yelverton, 141, 157,

13, 31, 55, 69, 85, 97, 125,

163, 183, 217, 237, 255, 277, 287, 303, 307,

315, 323, 331, 345, 357, 496, 501, 511.

Tyrrell, William Gerald,

Verschoyle, John,

West, John,

107, 175, 385, 443.

411.

273, 449.

West, Richard Whately, 417, 427, 467.

127,

179, 213, 227,

339, 397,

TRANSLATIONS INTO GREEK.

;

;

DUBLIN TRANSLATIONS.

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. ANTONIO

A.

If

—LEONATO.

you go on thus you

And

'tis

will kill yourself;

not wisdom thus to second grief

Against yourself L.

I

Which

falls into

pray thee, cease thy counsel,

mine ears as

As water in a sieve Nor let no comforter :

give not

profitless

me

counsel

delight mine ear,

But such a one whose wrongs do

suit

with

mine.

me a father, that so loved his child, Whose joy of her is overwhelm'd like mine. And bid him speak of patience Bring

;

Measure

his

woe

the

length

and breadth of

mine,

And

let it

answer every strain for strain

;

As, thus for thus, and, such a grief for such. In every lineament, branch, shape, If

such a one

And,

'

will smile,

sorrow,

groan

wag

!'

and stroke

cry

:

and form

:

his beard,

hem, when he should

SHAKSPEARE—MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.

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