 | 1880 - 958 pages
...masterpiece, — Simonides' Lament of Danae afloat with her boy Perseus upon the waves at night : — " When in the carven chest The winds that blew and waves...cheeks unwet, Her arms of love round Perseus set, B. And said, ' 0 child, what grief is mine ! Bat than dost slumber, and thy baby breast Is sunk in... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - 1883 - 396 pages
...medicine, with wine fraught To cast out thought. JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS. SIMONIDES. BC 556—467DANAE. — When, in the carven chest, The winds that blew and...sunk in rest, Here in the cheerless brass-bound bark Toss'd amid starless night and pitchy dark. Nor dost thou heed the scudding brine Of waves that wash... | |
 | William Hyde Appleton - 1893 - 420 pages
...talent for himself, In secret, like a miser with his pelf. Frere. SIMONIDES OF CEOS, 5OM68 B. c. DANAE AND HER BABE ADRIFT.. WHEN, in the carven chest, The...unwet, Her arms of love round Perseus set, And said : 0 child, what grief is mine ! But thou dost slumber, and thy baby breast Is sunk in rest, Here in... | |
 | William Hyde Appleton - 1893 - 418 pages
...talent for himself, In secret, like a miser with his pelf. Frere. SIMONIDES OF CEOS, 55<M68 B. c. DANAE AND HER BABE ADRIFT. WHEN, in the carven chest, The...unrest Smote her with fear, she, not with cheeks unwet, And said : O child, what grief is mine ! But thou dost slumber, and thy baby breast Is sunk in rest,... | |
 | Hermann Steuding, Herbert Cushing Tolman, Karl Pomeroy Harrington - 1897 - 202 pages
...with delicate poetic appreciation of their fearful peril, describes the situation as follows : — When, in the carven chest, The winds that blew and...Perseus set, And said : O child, what grief is mine I But thou dost slumber, and thy baby breast Is sunk in rest, Here in the cheerless brass-bound bark,... | |
 | Hermann Steuding, Karl Pomeroy Harrington, Herbert Cushing Tolman - 1897 - 202 pages
...not with cheeks unwet, Her arms of love round Perseus set, And said : O child, what grief is mine 1 But thou dost slumber, and thy baby breast Is sunk...bark, Tossed amid starless night and pitchy dark. H Nor dost thou heed the scudding brine Of waves that wash above thy curls so deep, Nor the shrill... | |
 | Herbert Cushing Tolman - 1900 - 88 pages
...still we feel how far short of the original his translation, artistic as it is, really comes : — When, in the carven chest, The winds that blew and...Perseus set, And said : O child, what grief is mine 1 But thou dost slumber, and thy baby breast Is sunk in rest, Nor dost thou heed the scudding brine... | |
 | John Henry Wright - 1902 - 490 pages
...the sweet poet. He was the most productive of all the Greek lyric poets. DANAE AND HER BABE ADRIFT1 WHEN, in the carven chest, The winds that blew and...Perseus set, And said : " O child, what grief is mine ! 6 But thou dost slumber, and thy baby breast Is sunk in rest, Here in the cheerless brass-bound bark,... | |
 | William Cranston Lawton - 1903 - 446 pages
...turn regretfully away from one of the world's great masters in calm, good taste and artistic finish. " When, in the carven chest, The winds that blew and...Perseus set, And said : O child, what grief is mine I But thou dost slumber, and thy baby breast IB sunk in rest, Here in the cheerless brass-bound bark,... | |
 | William Cranston Lawton - 1903 - 486 pages
...turn regretfully away from one of the world's great masters in calm, good taste and artistic finish. " When, in the carven chest, The winds that blew and...unwet, Her arms of love round Perseus set, And said : О child, what grief is mine I But thou dost slumber, and thy baby breast Is sunk in rest, Here in... | |
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When, in the carven chest, The winds that blew and waves in wild unrest, Smote her with fear, she, not with cheeks unwet, Her arms of love round Perseus set, And said : "O child, what grief is mine ! But... 
