Thomas Starling Norgate

Thomas Starling Norgate (20 August 1772 – 7 July 1859) was an English writer, journalist and newspaper editor. Quotes Translations The Odyssey (1863) London: Williams and Norgate The travelled Man of many a turn,—driven far,Far wandering, when he had sacked Troy's sacred Town;Tell me, O Muse, his tale: how too he connedThe manners of mankind, and visitedFull many a City, and how on the deep he sufferedMany a heart-pang, striving to secureHis own and comrades' lives and safe return. Yet them he rescued not, howe'er desirous;For by their own blind folly they all perished: Fools that they were! to eat the Sun-god's herds:So, Hyperion, he who Walks above, Bereft them of their day of home-return! Whereof, from whatsoever source, O goddess,Daughter of Zeus, vouchsafe to tell e'en Us! Book 1, line 1    I, all dying on the ground,Lifted and threw my hands to clutch my sword;But she, that hound-faced one, was gone; nor had sheThe heart to set my mouth together for me,Or with her hands to close mine eyes, though goingTo Hadès as I was. Book 11, line 424 External links Category:1772 births Category:1859 deaths Category:Translators from England Category:Translators of Homer Category:Journalists from England Category:Editors from England