Olympos: Tales of the Gods of Greece and RomeG.P. Putnam's sons, 1891 - 298 sider |
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Side 257 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Side 272 - Wherewith she sits on diamond rocks, Sleeking her soft alluring locks; By all the nymphs that nightly dance Upon thy streams with wily glance: Rise, rise, and heave thy rosy head From thy coral-paven bed, And bridle in thy headlong wave, Till thou our summons answered have.
Side 168 - Sidonian virgins paid their vows and songs; In Sion also not unsung, where stood Her temple on the offensive mountain, built By that uxorious king whose heart, though large, Beguiled by fair idolatresses, fell To idols foul.
Side 113 - Cumae, when you view the flood Of black Avernus, and the sounding wood, The mad prophetic Sibyl you shall find : Dark in a cave, and on a rock reclin'd, She sings the fates, and, in her frantic fits, The notes and names, inscrib'd, to leaves commits.
Side 271 - Nereus' wrinkled look, And the Carpathian wizard's hook; By scaly Triton's winding shell, And old soothsaying Glaucus' spell; By Leucothea's lovely hands, And her son that rules the strands; By Thetis...
Side 123 - And even as Artemis, the archer, moveth down the mountain, either along the ridges of lofty Taygetus or Erymanthus, taking her pastime in the chase of boars and swift deer, and with her the wild wood-nymphs disport them, the daughters of Zeus...
Side 135 - And nurs'd his youth along the marshy shore, Where great Diana's peaceful altars flame, In fruitful fields; and Virbius was his name. Hippolytus, as old records have said, Was by his...
Side 207 - And as he spake, a light of holy fire Stood up, and blazed from earth straight up to heaven. Silent the air, silent the verdant grove Held its still leaves; no sound of living thing. They, as their ears just caught the half-heard voice, Stood up erect, and rolled their wondering eyes. Again he shouted. But when Cadmus...
Side 203 - Who had left their new-born babes, and stood with breasts Full swelling : and they all put on their crowns Of ivy, oak, or flowering eglantine. One took a thyrsus wand, and struck the rock, Leaped forth at once a dewy mist of water ; And one her rod plunged deep in the earth, and there The God sent up a fountain of bright wine. And all that longed for the white blameless draught Light scraping with their finger-ends the soil Had streams of exquisite milk ; the ivy wands Distilled from all their tops...
Side 44 - The enormous monsters rolling o'er the deep Gambol around him on the watery way, And heavy whales in awkward measures play ; The sea subsiding spreads a level plain, Exults, and owns the monarch of the main ; The parting waves before his coursers fly ; The wondering waters leave his axle dry.