StoryTitle("caps", "Ulysses and the~Siren") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Siren: Come, worthy Greek! Ulysses, come,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "Possess these shores with me:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "The winds and seas are troublesome,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "And here we may be free.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Here may we sit and view their toil", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "That travail in the deep,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "And joy the day in mirth the while,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "And spend the night in sleep.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ulysses: Fair Nymph, if fame or honour were", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "To be attain'd with ease,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Then would I come and rest me there,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "And leave such toils as these.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "But here it dwells, and here must I", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "With danger seek it forth:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "To spend the time luxuriously", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "Becomes not men of worth.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Siren: Ulysses, O be not deceived", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "With that unreal name;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "This honour is a thing conceived,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "And rests on others' fame:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Begotten only to molest", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "Our peace, and to beguile", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "The best thing of our life—our rest,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "And give us up to toil.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ulysses: Delicious Nymph, suppose there were", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "No honour nor report,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Yet manliness would scorn to wear", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "The time in idle sport:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "For toil doth give a better touch", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "To make us feel our joy,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "And ease finds tediousness as much", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "As labour yields annoy.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Siren: Then pleasure likewise seems the shore", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "Whereto tends all your toil,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Which you forgo to make it more,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "And perish oft the while.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Who may disport them diversely", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "Find never tedious day,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "And ease may have variety", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "As well as action may.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ulysses: But natures of the noblest frame", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "These toils and dangers please;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "And they take comfort in the same", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "As much as you in ease;", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "And with the thought of actions past", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "Are recreated still:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "When Pleasure leaves a touch at last", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "To show that it was ill.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Siren: That doth Opinion only cause", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "That's out of Custom bred,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Which makes us many other laws", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "Than ever Nature did.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "No widows wail for our delights,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "Our sports are without blood;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "The world we see by warlike wights", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "Receives more hurt than good.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ulysses: But yet the state of things require", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "These motions of unrest:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "And these great Spirits of high desire", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "Seem born to turn them best:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "To purge the mischiefs that increase", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "And all good order mar:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "For oft we see a wicked peace", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "To be well changed for war.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Siren: Well, well, Ulysses, then I see", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "I shall not have thee here:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "And therefore I will come to thee,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "And take my fortune there.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "I must be won, that cannot win,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "Yet lost were I not won;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "For beauty hath created been", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "T' undo, or be undone.", "") ?>
Poet("Samuel Daniel", "1562-1619") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>