The powers who hold by might the sway. Thou hast withstood authority, A self-willed rebel, thou mu...
2011-12-15
CREON True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills. TEIRESIAS Thou art infected with that ill thyself. ...
The bridal chamber of the maid and Death, We sped, about to enter. But a guard Heard from that god...
Of giving burial. But where's the King? CHORUS There from the palace he returns in time. [Enter C...
ISMENE O sister, scorn me not, let me but share Thy work of piety, and with thee die. ANTIGONE C...
And will not slacken in the gale, is like To sail with thwarts reversed, keel uppermost. Relent th...
Thou hadst thy wish 'mid strangers thus to die, But I, ah me, not by. ISMENE Alas, my sister, wha...
Thebes thy old foster-mother claims thee first. OEDIPUS O front of brass, thy subtle tongue would ...
With obsequies that use and wont ordain, So gracing him among the dead below. But Polyneices, a di...
O woe is me! CHORUS Thou art a bold man, stranger, if thou think'st To execute thy purpose. CREO...
His father's city and his father's gods, And glut his vengeance with his kinsmen's blood, Or drag ...
Will stay my purpose to restore the maids. OEDIPUS Heaven bless thee, Theseus, for thy nobleness ...
Degenerate sons--these maidens did not so. Therefore my curse is stronger than thy "throne," Thy "...
To grant the suppliant their saving grace. So pray thyself or whoso pray for thee, In whispered ac...
So to be handed down from heir to heir. Thus shalt thou hold this land inviolate From the dread Dr...