 What hadst thou to do being born, Mother, when winds were at ease, As a flower of the springtime of corn, A flower of the foam of the seas ? For bitter thou wast from thy birth, Aphrodite, a mother of strife ; For before thee some rest was on earth, A...  The Edinburgh Review - Page 2081865Full view - About this book
 | American periodicals - 1925 - 778 pages
...always setting the temporal in relation to the eternal, and man against the dark background of his fate. What hadst thou to do being born. Mother, when winds'...little respite from tears, A little pleasure of life; . . . Thou ahouldst not so have been born; But death should have risen with thee. Mother, and visible... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - Atalanta (Greek mythology) - 1865 - 176 pages
...and is born at her birth ; For they knew thee for mother of love, And knew thee not mother of death.. What hadst thou to do being born, Mother, when winds...For life was not then as thou art, But as one that waxeth in years Sweet-spoken, a fruitful wife ; Earth had no thorn, and desire No sting, neither death... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1865 - 562 pages
...dove, And the life of the world in her breath Breathes, and is born at her birth : What hadst them to do being born, . Mother, when winds were at ease,...For life was not then as thou art, But as one that waxeth in years Sweet-spoken, a fruitful wife ; Earth had no thorn, and desire To sting, neither death... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - English poetry - 1884 - 724 pages
...and is born at her birth , For they knew thee for mother of love, And knew thee not mother of death What hadst thou to do being born, Mother, when winds...springtime of corn, A flower of the foam of the seas ? KOJL bjtter ihpu wast from thy birth, • Aphrodite, a mother of strife; For "before thee some rest... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1887 - 252 pages
...and is born at her birth : For they knew thee for mother of love, And knew thee not mother of death. What hadst thou to do being born, Mother, when winds...For life was not then as thou art, But as one that waxeth in years Sweet-spoken, a fruitful wife ; Earth had no thorn, and desire No sting, neither death... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - Atalanta (Greek mythology) - 1894 - 124 pages
...knew thee not mother of death. What hadst thou to do being bom, Mother, when winds were at ease, C As a flower of the springtime of corn, — « —...For life was not then as thou art, But as one that waxeth in years Sweet-spoken, a fruitful wife ; Earth had no thorn, and desire ' U *••— No sting,... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - Atalanta (Greek mythology) - 1896 - 128 pages
...and is born at her birth ; For they knew thee for mother of love, And knew thee not mother of death. What hadst thou to do being born, Mother, when winds...the foam of the seas ? For bitter thou wast from thy birtti). Aphrodite, a mother of strife ; For before thee some rest was on earth, A little respite from... | |
 | Henry MacArthur - American literature - 1897 - 314 pages
...higher forms of the passion. The chorus is based upon the old legend of the birth of Venus : — ' What hadst thou to do being born, Mother, when winds...wast from thy birth, Aphrodite, a mother of strife j For before thee some rest was on earth, A little respite from tears, A little pleasure of life ;... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1901 - 352 pages
...and is born at her birth; For they knew thee for mother of love, And knew thee not mother of death. What hadst thou to do being born, Mother, when winds...For life was not then as thou art, But as one that waxeth in years Sweet-spoken, a fruitful wife; Earth had no thorn, and desire No sting, neither death... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - English poetry - 1904 - 436 pages
...and is born at her birth ; For they knew thee for mother of love, And knew thee not mother of death. What hadst thou to do being born, Mother, when winds...For life was not then as thou art, But as one that waxeth in years Sweet-spoken, a fruitful wife ; Earth had no thorn, and desire No sting, neither death... | |
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