The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor: Dialogues in verse : Gebir. Acts and scenes. HellenicsChapman and Hall, 1876 - 4 страници |
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Страница 461 - We are what suns and winds and waters make us ; The mountains are our sponsors, and the rills Fashion and win their nursling with their smiles. But where the land is dim from tyranny, There tiny pleasures occupy the place Of glories and of duties ; as the feet Of fabled faeries when the sun goes down Trip o'er the grass where wrestlers strove by day.
Страница 7 - ... life was almost quivering on my lips, Yet nothing was there painful: these are signs Of secret arts and not of human might; What arts I...
Страница 487 - Obscures the senses. If my nurse, who knew My voice so well, sometimes misunderstood, While I was resting on her knee both arms, And hitting it to make her mind my words, And looking in her face, and she in mine, Might not he also hear one word amiss, Spoken from so far off, even from Olympus?
Страница 475 - TO CORINTH. QUEEN of the double sea, beloved of him Who shakes the world's foundations, thou hast seen Glory in all her beauty, all her forms ; Seen her walk back with Theseus when he left The bones of Sciron bleaching to the wind, Above the ocean's roar and cormorant's flight, So high that vastest billows from above Show but like herbage waving in the mead ; Seen generations throng thy Isthmian games, And pass away — the beautiful, the brave, And them who sang their praises.
Страница 427 - She play'd on his : she fed upon his sighs ; They pleased her when they gently waved her hair, Cooling the pulses of her purple veins, And when her absence brought them out, they pleased.
Страница 424 - said she. The old man went Without a warning from his master's son, Glad to escape, for sorely he now fear'd, And the axe shone behind him in their eyes.
Страница 33 - Rhine rolls his beryl-colour'd wave ; than Rhine What river from the mountains ever came More stately? most the simple crown adorns Of rushes and of willows intertwined With here and there a flower : his lofty brow Shaded with vines and mistleto and oak He rears, and mystic bards his fame resound. Or gliding opposite, th' Illyrian gulf Will harbour us from ill.
Страница 429 - And there were bruises which no eye could see Saving a Hamadryad's. At this sight Down fell the languid brow, both hands fell down, A shriek was carried to the ancient hall Of Thallinos : he heard it not : his son Heard it, and ran forthwith into the wood.
Страница 487 - And all your vows move not the Gods above, When the knife strikes me there will be one prayer The less to them : and purer can there be Any, or more fervent than the daughter's prayer For her dear father's safety and success ? ' A groan that shook him shook not his resolve.
Страница 423 - Of mind, Poseidon, the sea-king, reveres, And whom his brother, stubborn Dis, hath pray'd To turn in pity the averted cheek Of her he bore away, with promises, Nay, with loud oath before dread Styx itself, To give her daily more and sweeter flowers Than he made drop from her on Enna's dell.