Poems by Sophocles

I by myself am nought; yea, oftentimes
So look I upon all our womenkind,
That we are nothing....

Not Kyprian only, children, is she called,
Who rules o'er Kypros, but bears many names.
Had...

Chorus from Antigone Blessed are those whose life no woe doth taste!
For unto those whose house...

I know that God is ever such as this,
Darkly disclosing counsels to the wise;
But to the simp...

O holy light of day,
And air with earth commensurate,
Many the wailing songs,
Many the echo...

A pleasant ill is this disease of love,
And 'twere not ill to sketch its likeness thus:
When ...

Fair Salamis, the billow's roar
Wanders around thee yet;
And sailors gaze upon thy shore
Fir...

Chorus from Antigone I O light of yon bright sun,
Fairest of all that ever shone on Thebes,
...

Chorus from Oedipus Rex O that 'twere mine to keep
An awful purity,
In words and deeds whose ...

Chorus from Electra I See ye, where Ares, breathing slaughter still,
Speeds on his onward w...

Chorus from Oedipus the King Ares the destroyer drive away!
Who now, though hushed the din
Of...

O tomb, my bridal chamber, vaulted home.
Guarded right well for ever, where I go
To join min...

Not mortal men alone does Love assail,
No, nor yet women, but it leaves its stamp
Upon the s...