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arms Asgard beauty beneath blind bower breath bride bright brow clouds Cyclops dark death deep divine doth dread earth eyes face fair fate fear feel fire flowers Freyia gave giant give goddess gods gold golden green hair hammer hand hath head hear heard heart heaven hill hour king leaves light living Loke look mighty MILTON mind moon mortal mountain move Nature never night nymph o'er once pale Pan is dead plain poet queen rest ring rising rock rose round seen SHAKESPEARE share shore side sigh sight sing sits sleep smile soft song soul sound spirit spoke spring stand stars stone stood stream sweet tell thee thou thought touch turned Ulysses voice wandering waters waves wide wild winds wings young youth
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Page 19 - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
Page 40 - The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago; The Scipios...
Page 24 - The herded wolves, bold only to pursue; The obscene ravens, clamorous o'er the dead; The vultures to the conqueror's banner true Who feed where Desolation first has fed, And whose wings rain contagion...
Page 20 - Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them...
Page 159 - ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
Page 164 - Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in, And bade him follow ; so, indeed, he did. The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it With lusty sinews, throwing it aside, And stemming it with hearts of controversy. But ere we could arrive the point propos'd, Caesar cried,
Page 172 - For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud. Which is the hot condition of their blood ; If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music...
Page 5 - Into the burning lake their baleful streams. Abhorred Styx, the flood of deadly hate : Sad Acheron, of sorrow, black and deep ; Cocytus, named of lamentation loud Heard on the rueful stream ; fierce Phlegethon, Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Poetry of the Age of Fable |
| Author | Thomas Bulfinch |
| Compiled by | Thomas Bulfinch |
| Publisher | J.E. Tilton & Company, 1863 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Feb 2007 |
| ISBN | 1404721665, 9781404721661 |
| Length | 251 pages |
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