The Poems of VirgilLongmans, Green and Company, 1888 - 424 pages |
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... wings on which the unhappy queen hovered over the palace once her own ? All the themes , in short , to which , as once sung by Phoebus , Eurotas listened in ecstasy , and bade his bays get them by heart , Silenus sings : the valleys ...
... wings on which the unhappy queen hovered over the palace once her own ? All the themes , in short , to which , as once sung by Phoebus , Eurotas listened in ecstasy , and bade his bays get them by heart , Silenus sings : the valleys ...
Page 46
... wings . Again , the tribes of sea - birds , and such as dig for treasure far and wide in the Asian meads among Cayster's sweet waters , may be observed in rivalry with each other , pouring showers of spray over their backs , now ...
... wings . Again , the tribes of sea - birds , and such as dig for treasure far and wide in the Asian meads among Cayster's sweet waters , may be observed in rivalry with each other , pouring showers of spray over their backs , now ...
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... wings cutting scuddingly through the thin ether . Then the rooks , narrowing their throats , utter a clear note , three or four times over , and repeatedly in their nests on the tree top , moved by some mysterious ecstasy beyond their ...
... wings cutting scuddingly through the thin ether . Then the rooks , narrowing their throats , utter a clear note , three or four times over , and repeatedly in their nests on the tree top , moved by some mysterious ecstasy beyond their ...
Page 48
... wing , the quarter whence a fair wind will blow to drive away the clouds , the hidden purposes of the rainy South , of all these the Sun will give you prognostics . The Sun - who will dare to call him untrue ? Nay , he it is who often ...
... wing , the quarter whence a fair wind will blow to drive away the clouds , the hidden purposes of the rainy South , of all these the Sun will give you prognostics . The Sun - who will dare to call him untrue ? Nay , he it is who often ...
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... wings that sweep land and sea alike . A horse like this will be seen all sweat at the goal of Elis and its mighty circles , spurting out flakes of bloody foam , or will draw the Belgian car with a grace , with that gentle neck of his ...
... wings that sweep land and sea alike . A horse like this will be seen all sweat at the goal of Elis and its mighty circles , spurting out flakes of bloody foam , or will draw the Belgian car with a grace , with that gentle neck of his ...
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