Translations Into English and LatinG. Bell and Sons, 1897 - 259 pages |
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Achaians Achilles Agamemnon Amaryllis Amyntas Apollo Arethuse Atreus aught brave bring Daphnis Briseis Calchas Chryse city home Corydon doth dreams earth ECLOGUE enim Epistrophus Eurytus Ev'n eyes fair fears flocks flowers flute Gallus gift goats gods Greeks green hand hath hear heart heaven Herč host Idomeneus Ilion Jove kine King lord Lycidas maid mate Menalcas mighty mihi Mopsus muse ne'er neath Nireus numbers Nunc Nymphs o'er Odysseus Peleus Phoebus pipe prayer Priam's Pylos Quć quam Queis quid rose round sacred sang sate sceptre seas shalt sheep shepherd shore sing sire Sirmio song of Arcady sons soul spake spring star stream strife swains swans exalt sweet swift thee thine thing thou Thyrsis tibi Tityrus Trojans Troy unto vine warriors wild wind woods words wrath Zeus
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Page 181 - Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream : Ah me ! I fondly dream, Had ye been there...
Page 185 - Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred head of thine. Next, Camus, reverend sire, went footing slow, His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge Inwrought with figures dim and on the edge Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe. " Ah ! who hath reft," quoth he, " my dearest pledge ! " — Last came, and last did go, The pilot of the Galilean lake.
Page 191 - And hears the unexpressive nuptial song, In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the saints above, In solemn troops, and sweet societies, That sing, and singing, in their glory move And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.
Page 199 - IF all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.
Page 179 - For we were nursed upon the self-same hill. Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill.
Page 183 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise...
Page 189 - Ay me! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away, where'er thy bones are hurled, Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides, Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide Visit's! the bottom of the monstrous world...
Page 197 - And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.
Page 187 - The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread; Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Page 221 - Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard beset By death in various forms, dark snares, and dogs, And more unpitying men, the garden seeks, Urged on by fearless want. The bleating kind Eye the bleak heaven, and next the glistening earth, With looks of dumb despair ; then, sad dispersed, Dig for the withered herb through heaps of snow.