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... wind Contend who shall kiss them away . Then , virgins , your posies , your garlands entwine , Mingle hues of each ... winds of December shall sweep , And leaves , now that glitter , on earth shall be strewn , And flowers in their cold ...
... wind Contend who shall kiss them away . Then , virgins , your posies , your garlands entwine , Mingle hues of each ... winds of December shall sweep , And leaves , now that glitter , on earth shall be strewn , And flowers in their cold ...
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... bounties bring ; There eternal Summer dwells , And west winds , with musky wing , About the cedar'd alleys fling Nard and cassia's balmy smells . Iris there with humid bow THE SAME TRANSLATED . Εἰς ὠκεανὸν πέτομαι , μάκαράς τ 20.
... bounties bring ; There eternal Summer dwells , And west winds , with musky wing , About the cedar'd alleys fling Nard and cassia's balmy smells . Iris there with humid bow THE SAME TRANSLATED . Εἰς ὠκεανὸν πέτομαι , μάκαράς τ 20.
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... winds ; the air Floats , as they pass , fann'd with unnumber'd plumes : From branch to branch the smaller birds with songs Solaced the woods , and spread their painted wings Till even nor then the solemn nightingale THE SAME TRANSLATED ...
... winds ; the air Floats , as they pass , fann'd with unnumber'd plumes : From branch to branch the smaller birds with songs Solaced the woods , and spread their painted wings Till even nor then the solemn nightingale THE SAME TRANSLATED ...
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... spreadest out the heavens like a curtain . 3. Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters , and maketh the clouds his chariot , and walketh upon the wings of the wind . εὑρέν θ ̓ ὁποῖον κτῆμα τὸ σμικρὰ φρονεῖν μείζω δὲ τιμὴν 48.
... spreadest out the heavens like a curtain . 3. Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters , and maketh the clouds his chariot , and walketh upon the wings of the wind . εὑρέν θ ̓ ὁποῖον κτῆμα τὸ σμικρὰ φρονεῖν μείζω δὲ τιμὴν 48.
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... wind , For on him rushes lightning - arm'd dread Phœbus ; and behind Relentless Fates are following ! From Delphi's snowy peak A warning voice hath burst on all , " The hidden one to seek ! " μῶρος φίλων γὰρ ὧν ἐρᾷ γελασμάτων τέλος μὲν ...
... wind , For on him rushes lightning - arm'd dread Phœbus ; and behind Relentless Fates are following ! From Delphi's snowy peak A warning voice hath burst on all , " The hidden one to seek ! " μῶρος φίλων γὰρ ὧν ἐρᾷ γελασμάτων τέλος μὲν ...
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Page 8 - What, silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, But one arise, — we come, we come ! " "Tis but the living who are dumb.
Page 62 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand ? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight ? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain ? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw.
Page 42 - tis not to me she speaks: Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres, till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head; The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, As daylight doth a lamp; her eye in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright, That birds would sing, and think it were not night.
Page 88 - Thou sittest at the right hand of God in the glory of the Father. We believe that thou shalt come to be our Judge. We therefore pray thee help thy servants whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious blood.
Page 12 - Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die: A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine— Dash down yon cup of Samian wine!
Page 54 - Thou makest darkness, that it may be night; wherein all the beasts of the forest do move. 21 The lions, roaring after their prey, do seek their meat from GOD. 22 The sun ariseth, and they get them away together, and lay them down in their dens. 23 Man goeth forth to his work, and to his labour, until the evening.
Page 26 - Their downy breast; the swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet...
Page 64 - Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest ; I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before. There's no such thing : It is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes.
Page 10 - On Suli's rock, and Parga's shore, Exists the remnant of a line Such as the Doric mothers bore; And there, perhaps, some seed is sown, The Heracleidan blood might own.
Page 78 - How use doth breed a habit in a man ! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns : Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And, to the nightingale's complaining notes, Tune my distresses, and record my woes.