Selected Poetry and ProseMelbourne University Press, 1948 - 149 pages |
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Page 49
... gates And porches wide , but chief the spacious hall ( Though like a covered field , where champions bold Wont ride in armed , and at the Soldan's chair Defied the best of Paynim chivalry To mortal combat , or career with lance ) Thick ...
... gates And porches wide , but chief the spacious hall ( Though like a covered field , where champions bold Wont ride in armed , and at the Soldan's chair Defied the best of Paynim chivalry To mortal combat , or career with lance ) Thick ...
Page 65
... gates ; three folds were brass , Three iron , three of adamantine rock , Impenetrable , impaled * with circling fire , Yet unconsumed . Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape ; The one seemed woman to the waist ...
... gates ; three folds were brass , Three iron , three of adamantine rock , Impenetrable , impaled * with circling fire , Yet unconsumed . Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape ; The one seemed woman to the waist ...
Page 66
... gates and release Satan . Thus saying , from her side the fatal key , Sad instrument of all our woe , she took ; And towards the gate rolling her bestial train , Forthwith the huge portcullis high up - drew , Which but herself not all ...
... gates and release Satan . Thus saying , from her side the fatal key , Sad instrument of all our woe , she took ; And towards the gate rolling her bestial train , Forthwith the huge portcullis high up - drew , Which but herself not all ...
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