Read both versions of the passage and choose the one you prefer.
Translator names will be revealed after you vote.
Book 1, Lines 47–50
Athena’s Sorrow for Odysseus & Description of Calypso’s Enchanted Prison-Isle
A
But me a rending doubt doth inly tire,
For hapless brave Odysseus, who doth steep
His soul unfriended in extreme desire,
Girded of ocean in an island-keep,
An island clothed with trees, the navel of the deep.
B
But the heart in me is torn for the sake of wise Odysseus,
unhappy man, who still, far from his friends, is suffering
griefs, on the sea-washed island, the navel of all the waters, a wooded island, and there a goddess has made her dwelling place;