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Passages similar to: Egyptian Book of the Dead — Chapter LXIII B
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Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter LXIII B (2.)
I lie helpless as a dead person, and I arrive at the lair of the Lion who defieth slaughter, ... following the road by which I set out
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto I (2)
After my weary body I had rested, The way resumed I on the desert slope, So that the firm foot ever was the lower. And lo! almost where the ascent beg...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto I (1)
Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost. Ah me! how hard a thing it is...
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Tablet X (13)
We grappled with and killed the Bull of Heaven, we destroyed Humbaba who dwelled in the Cedar Forest, we slew lions in the mountain passes! My friend, whom I love deeply, who went through every hard- shin with me Enkidu, my friend, whom I love deeply, who went through…
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Tablet VIII (5)
[10 lines are missing here.'] "I had you recline on the great couch, indeed, on the couch of honor I let you recline, 1 had you sit in the position of ease, the seat at the…
The Masnavi
The Three Fishes (20-28)
His blind soul wanders in every direction, And at last makes a spring, but springs not upwards. A man captured a bird by wiles and snares; The bird sa...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XVII (4)
He who shall bring the satchel with three goats;'" Then twisted he his mouth, and forth he thrust His tongue, like to an ox that licks its nose. And...
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Tablet X (14)
My friend whom I love has turned to clay; Enkidu, my friend whom I love, has turned to clay! Am I not like him!…
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto II (6)
What is it, then? Why, why dost thou delay? Why is such baseness bedded in thy heart? Daring and hardihood why hast thou not, Seeing that three such...
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Tablet IX (1)
Over his friend, Enkidu, Gilgamesh cried bitterly, roaming the wilderness. "I am going to die!--am I not like Enkidu?!…
The Masnavi
The Vakil of the Prince of Bokhara (22-31)
Like the earth or like a fetus I devour blood, If that 'Faithful Spirit' should shed my blood, At night I boil on the fire like a cooking-pot, It...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto IV (1)
Broke the deep lethargy within my head A heavy thunder, so that I upstarted, Like to a person who by force is wakened; And round about I moved my...
The Masnavi
The Fowler and the Bird (28-35)
Since my bashfulness is destroyed, I will publish secrets; How long must I bear this trepidation and anxiety? Formerly I was covered by modesty as by...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto VIII (5)
"O my dear Guide, who more than seven times Hast rendered me security, and drawn me From imminent peril that before me stood, Do not desert me," said...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XVII (6)
Then was I still more fearful of the abyss; Because I fires beheld, and heard laments, Whereat I, trembling, all the closer cling. I saw then, for...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto IX (5)
What helpeth it to butt against the fates? Your Cerberus, if you remember well, For that still bears his chin and gullet peeled." Then he returned...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XXIV (2)
And had it not been, that upon that precinct Shorter was the ascent than on the other, He I know not, but I had been dead beat. But because Malebolge ...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto IX (2)
I thought within myself, perchance he strikes From habit only here, and from elsewhere Disdains to bear up any in his feet. Then wheeling somewhat...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XXXIV (2)
I did not die, and I alive remained not; Think for thyself now, hast thou aught of wit, What I became, being of both deprived. The Emperor of the...
The Masnavi
The Three Fishes (11-19)
He wanders into the boundless desert, Sometimes halting and despairing, sometimes running. He has no lamp wherewith to light himself on his way, He...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto IX (1)
That hue which cowardice brought out on me, Beholding my Conductor backward turn, Sooner repressed within him his new colour. He stopped attentive,...
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