The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest... Songs of Three Centuries - Page 37edited by - 1875 - 352 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1864 - 868 pages
...have supposed that oracles ceased at the birth of Christ. In his song of the Nativity, he sings — "The oracles arc dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." If this be true, it is also certain that one possessed of a spirit of Python lived and practised divination... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly honour of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetick cell. XX. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horrour of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched...more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leavin" ODES. 287 With that twice-batter'd God of Palestine ; And mooned Ashtaroth, Heaven's queen... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...shriek the steep of Dclphos leavNo nightly trance, or breathed spell, [ing. Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains...heard and loud lament ; From haunted spring and dale, Edg'd with poplar pale, The parting genius is with sighing s^nt ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb; No voice, or hideous hum, Runs through the arched...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 356 pages
...And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horrour of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priests from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice... | |
| British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched...the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and lond lament ; From hannted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genins is with sighing... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...And wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horrour of his folded tail. 19. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched...No nightly trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. 20. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,... | |
| New elegant extracts - 1827 - 404 pages
...; for, from this happy day, The old Dragon, under ground In straiter limits bound, The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched...Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, [cell. Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding... | |
| Walter Scott - Demonology - 1830 - 374 pages
...pieces, the departure of these pretended deities on the eve of the blessed Nativity. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched...From haunted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn, The Nymphs in twilight shade... | |
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