Andrew Lang Quote

They hear like ocean on a western beach
The surge and thunder of the Odyssey.


Sonnet The Odyssey (1879), in Introduction to his translation (with S. H. Butcher) of Homer's Odyssey.


They hear like ocean on a western beach The surge and thunder of the Odyssey.

They hear like ocean on a western beach The surge and thunder of the Odyssey.

They hear like ocean on a western beach The surge and thunder of the Odyssey.

They hear like ocean on a western beach The surge and thunder of the Odyssey.