 ... writhing freaks and furious face, To dash him on a gong, but that amidst The struggling mass Encolyon thrust a pine, Heavy and black as Charon's ferrying pole, O'er which they, like a bursting billow, fell.  The Illuminated Magazine - Page 121edited by - 1843Full view - About this book
 | Richard H. Horne - Literary curiosa - 1843 - 154 pages
...;'.' ... At length when night came folding round the scene, And golden lights grew red and terrible, Flashed torch and spear, while reed-pipes deeper blew...athwart '''" .'' ' Over the level space and up the hiUsi Six giants held portentous dance, nor ceased Till one by one in bare Bacchante arms, Brim-full... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1843 - 162 pages
...billow, fell. At length when night came folding round the scene, And golden lights grew red and terrible, Flashed torch and spear, while reed-pipes deeper blew...groaned and jangled to the tones Of high-sustaining horns,—then round the blaze, Their shadows brandishing afar and athwart Over the level space and... | |
 | 1844 - 784 pages
...thrust a pine, Heavy and black as Charon's ferrying po.r. O'er which they, like a bunting billowt fell. then round the blaze, Their shadows brandishing afar...and up the hills, Six giants held portentous dance. his safe return To corporal sense, by »baking off these neta Of moonbeams from his soul. old memories... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell - American literature - 1850 - 642 pages
...Charon's ferrying pole, O'er which they, like a bursting billow, fell then round the blaze, Tlifir shadows brandishing afar and athwart, Over the level space and up the hills, Six giants held jxirtcntous dance his safe return To corporal sense, by shaking off these nets Of moonbeams from his... | |
 | Richard Henry Horne - 1854 - 168 pages
...billow, fell. At length when night came folding round the scene,And golden lights grew red and terrible, Flashed torch and spear, while reed-pipes deeper blew...rolled Deep down oblivion. Sleep absorbed their souls. Region of Dreams ! ye seething procreant beds For germs of life's solidities and power ; Whether ye... | |
 | American literature - 1859 - 616 pages
...pine, Heavy and black as Charon's ferrying pole, O'er which they, like a bursting billow, fell.. . . . then round the blaze, Their shadows brandishing afar and athwart, Over the level space and up the hilis, Six giants held liortentous dance.. . . . his safe return To corporal sense, by shaking off... | |
 | Richard Henry Horne - 1872 - 214 pages
...fell. At length, when night came folding round the scene, And golden lights grew red and terrible, Flashed torch and spear, while reed-pipes deeper blew...rolled Deep down oblivion. Sleep absorbed their souls. Region of Dreams ! ye seething procreant beds For germs of life's solidities and power ; Whether ye... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Clarence Stedman, George Edward Woodberry - American literature - 1895 - 380 pages
...pine, Heavy and black as Charon's ferrying pole, O'er which they, like a bursting billow, fell." " then round the blaze, Their shadows brandishing afar...and up the hills, Six giants held portentous dance." " his safe return To corporal sense, by shaking off these nets Of moonbeams from his soul." " Old memories... | |
 | Richard Garnett - English literature - 1903 - 666 pages
...lights grew red and terrible, Flashed torch and spear, while reed-pipes deeper blew Sonorous dirges and melodious storm, And timbrels groaned and jangled...nor ceased Till one by one in bare Bacchante arms, Brimful of nectar, helplessly they rolled Deep down oblivion. Sleep absorbed their souls. In prose... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1903 - 692 pages
...lights grew red and terrible, Flashed torch and spear, while reed-pipes deeper blew Sonorous dirges and melodious storm, And timbrels groaned and jangled...nor ceased Till one by one in bare Bacchante arms, Brimful of nectar, helplessly they rolled Deep down oblivion. Sleep absorbed their souls. In prose... | |
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