Helena in TroasKegan Paul, Trench, 1886 - 84 Seiten |
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Achilles ægis Antistrophe beauty's blazon blood breast CENONE CHORUS cold craft dead Death deeds Delos didst doom dreadful dream dying Enone Epode evermore evil false fate fear feet fierce fiery fire flower Fool furious gates gloom gods golden hate hath heal heart heaven Hector HECUBA Helen's sake HELENA Hera Heracles Hissing hoary hour Ilion immortal jealous kindle king kiss leap live look lyre madness naught nymph o'er Odysseus Olympian pale Pallas pangs PARIS passion Philoctetes pity plague Poseidon PRIAM pride rage ravished ruined Troy shaft siren sleep smile sons sorrow Spartan spring strife Strophe succour Troy surge swift Tantalus tears thee Theseus thine eyes thou art thou hast thy beauty thy hand thy lips thy love to-day tongue venom wail wast weep wild wilt thou winds wings woes of Troy words world unknown wound youth Zeus
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Seite 10 - O pitiless mischief! Thee no woman bore Wooed by the billing of the amorous swan. Yea, Leda bore thee not but Nemesis To be the doom of Troy and Priam's house.
Seite 79 - О luckless day, of many a luckless day The last and direst! I have lived too long. — Ibid. FAILURE. In sordid hopes and fears. Of mortal lots the worst, the life of him Who strives, and waits his day of strife supreme; Who gathers wisdom for the mightier strife Among his broken weapons; tames his soul To learn its valor's rage, then with each power Poised and keen shining like Athena's spear, To assault the golden portals of success, Finds but Death waiting there, with bitter waste To snatch him...
Seite 55 - ... that heal men or destroy, Of light and of the lightning; bringer of cool Dew from the wandering wells of the great deep To nourish the tender buds; pourer of hail And floods of thunderous rain on harvest fields; Fosterer with warmth, parcher with furious heat. Hear me, for I am thine!
Seite 74 - September 6, 1904 (HRC); The British Architect, October 15, 1886. (As EGC remarked, "A mise en scene is childs-play when one has had an architect for a father and Irving for a master...