Poetic Openings : Oliver Wendell Holmes to Homer

Poet : Oliver Wendell Holmes : Poem : Union And Liberty : First Line : FLAG of the heroes who left us their glory,
Poet : Homer : Poem : The Iliad: Book 01 : First Line : Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought
Poet : Homer : Poem : The Iliad: Book 03 : First Line : When the companies were thus arrayed, each under its own captain,
Poet : Homer : Poem : The Iliad: Book 04 : First Line : Now the gods were sitting with Jove in council upon the golden floor
Poet : Homer : Poem : The Iliad: Book 07 : First Line : With these words Hector passed through the gates, and his brother

Poet : Homer : Poem : The Iliad: Book 08 : First Line : Now when Morning, clad in her robe of saffron, had begun to suffuse
Poet : Homer : Poem : The Iliad: Book 10 : First Line : Now the other princes of the Achaeans slept soundly the whole
Poet : Homer : Poem : The Iliad: Book 12 : First Line : So the son of Menoetius was attending to the hurt of Eurypylus
Poet : Homer : Poem : The Iliad: Book 14 : First Line : Nestor was sitting over his wine, but the cry of battle did not
Poet : Homer : Poem : The Iliad: Book 16 : First Line : Thus did they fight about the ship of Protesilaus. Then Patroclus