Olympian Odes (Pindar)

“Here I thought of, or rather saw, what the Greek expresses under the form of Jove's darling, Ganymede, and the following stanzas took form.”

“a Jove, under the masculine obligations of all-sufficinyness, who rubs his forehead in vain to induce the Minerva-bearing headach! Alas! his brain remains tranquil, his fancy daughterless!”

“Apollo's lustre rays the zodiac thought, / In Leo regal, as in Virgo pure ... And the Sun sings all on his ray-strung lyre. ... For thee, my Apollo, / The girdle I weave ... ...”

“I sit like Tantalus at the banquet, I am not content to see the Gods. I would be one, else even nectar and ambrosia fall on the palate. I sympathize with the fallen”

“It is indeed a place of beauty, but more like the Greek Elysium than the home Klopstock and I were wont to picture to ourselves beyond The gate of Death.”