Narrative and Lyric Poems: For StudentsSamuel Swayze Seward |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 21
Page 81
... Persia has come ! Persia bids Athens proffer slaves ' - tribute , water and earth ; Razed to the ground is Eretria - but Athens , shall Athens sink , Drop into dust and die - the flower of Hellas utterly die , Die , with the wide world ...
... Persia has come ! Persia bids Athens proffer slaves ' - tribute , water and earth ; Razed to the ground is Eretria - but Athens , shall Athens sink , Drop into dust and die - the flower of Hellas utterly die , Die , with the wide world ...
Page 82
... Persia has come , Athens asks aid , and still they debate ? Thunder , thou Zeus ! Athene , are Spartans a quarry beyond Swing of thy spear ? Phoibos and Artemis , clang them " Ye must " ! ' No bolt launched from Olumpos ! Lo , their ...
... Persia has come , Athens asks aid , and still they debate ? Thunder , thou Zeus ! Athene , are Spartans a quarry beyond Swing of thy spear ? Phoibos and Artemis , clang them " Ye must " ! ' No bolt launched from Olumpos ! Lo , their ...
Page 83
... Persian's foot , You that , our patrons were pledged , should never adorn a slave ! Rather I hail thee , Parnes , -trust to thy wild waste tract ! Treeless , herbless , lifeless mountain ! What matter if slacked My speed may hardly be ...
... Persian's foot , You that , our patrons were pledged , should never adorn a slave ! Rather I hail thee , Parnes , -trust to thy wild waste tract ! Treeless , herbless , lifeless mountain ! What matter if slacked My speed may hardly be ...
Page 84
... Persia to scorn , have faith In the temples and tombs ! Go , say to Athens , “ The Goat- God saith : When Persia - so much as strews not the soil - is cast in the sea , Then praise Pan who fought in the ranks with your most and least ...
... Persia to scorn , have faith In the temples and tombs ! Go , say to Athens , “ The Goat- God saith : When Persia - so much as strews not the soil - is cast in the sea , Then praise Pan who fought in the ranks with your most and least ...
Page 85
... Persia to dust , and , under the deep , Whelm her away forever ; and then , -no Athens to save , — Marry a certain maid , I know keeps faith to the brave , — Hie to my house and home : and , when my children shall creep Close to my ...
... Persia to dust , and , under the deep , Whelm her away forever ; and then , -no Athens to save , — Marry a certain maid , I know keeps faith to the brave , — Hie to my house and home : and , when my children shall creep Close to my ...
Contents
269 | |
271 | |
276 | |
281 | |
282 | |
292 | |
298 | |
305 | |
100 | |
122 | |
147 | |
163 | |
173 | |
176 | |
182 | |
183 | |
189 | |
195 | |
201 | |
202 | |
213 | |
221 | |
227 | |
234 | |
240 | |
256 | |
262 | |
265 | |
266 | |
312 | |
320 | |
326 | |
334 | |
344 | |
374 | |
391 | |
399 | |
424 | |
431 | |
453 | |
465 | |
493 | |
494 | |
496 | |
499 | |
500 | |
501 | |
502 | |
505 | |
509 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Afrasiab Agnes ancient Mariner arms Athens ballad battle BATTLE OF NASEBY Battle of Otterburn beauty bird breast breath bright cloud cold dæmons dead dear death deep doth dream earth eyes face fair fear feel fight flowers glory grace grave green hair hand hath head hear heard heart heaven Keats King lady land light lips live look look'd Lord Lord Byron Lord Randal Moon morn mortal never night nymph o'er Otterbourne Oxus P. B. Shelley pale Persian Pheidippides poem poetry Porphyro rose round Rustum sails sand seem'd Seistan ship silent sing Sir Patrick Spens sleep smile soft Sohrab song soul sound spake spear spirit stanza stars stood story sweet Sylph Tartar tears tell Thalestris thee thine things thou art thought Twas voice wave wild wind words Wordsworth young youth
Popular passages
Page 279 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee...
Page 363 - Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy! Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 253 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The child is father of the man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Page 181 - She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Page 350 - mid the steep sky's commotion. Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shed. Shook from the tangled boughs of heaven and ocean, Angels of rain and lightning: there are spread On the blue surface of thine airy surge, Like the bright hair uplifted from the head Of some fierce Maenad, even from the dim verge Of the horizon to the zenith's height The locks of the approaching storm.
Page 203 - Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride...
Page 205 - Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, "Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn...
Page 351 - Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lulled by the coil of his crystalline streams, Beside a pumice isle in Baiae's bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers So sweet, the sense faints picturing them!
Page 355 - What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
Page 332 - A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced: Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail: And "mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river.