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... goddesses . And they called these In the central part of Greece , there stood a lofty moun- tain called Olympus . Its sides were covered with thick , green woods ; and it was so high that its peak seemed to pierce through the clouds ...
... goddesses . And they called these In the central part of Greece , there stood a lofty moun- tain called Olympus . Its sides were covered with thick , green woods ; and it was so high that its peak seemed to pierce through the clouds ...
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... goddesses ; and as you are going to read stories about some of them , I will tell you who they were . Apollo was the god ... goddess of hunt- ing ; and , in the daytime , she wandered through the green woods , with her arrows at her side ...
... goddesses ; and as you are going to read stories about some of them , I will tell you who they were . Apollo was the god ... goddess of hunt- ing ; and , in the daytime , she wandered through the green woods , with her arrows at her side ...
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... goddess of wisdom and of war . The owl was her favorite bird . She spent much of her time in weaving and embroidering , for she was very fond of this pastime . And then there was Mercury , fleet - footed Mercury . He was called " The ...
... goddess of wisdom and of war . The owl was her favorite bird . She spent much of her time in weaving and embroidering , for she was very fond of this pastime . And then there was Mercury , fleet - footed Mercury . He was called " The ...
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... goddess named Ceres . She had power to make the earth yield plentiful crops of grain , or to leave it barren ; and on her depended the food , and therefore the life , of all the peo- ple on the great , wide earth . Ceres had one fair ...
... goddess named Ceres . She had power to make the earth yield plentiful crops of grain , or to leave it barren ; and on her depended the food , and therefore the life , of all the peo- ple on the great , wide earth . Ceres had one fair ...
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... goddess or- dered the poor mother to leave the island at once ; and , although it made Latona very sad to go from the home where she had been so happy , she hastened away , for she feared that otherwise Juno might harm her two beautiful ...
... goddess or- dered the poor mother to leave the island at once ; and , although it made Latona very sad to go from the home where she had been so happy , she hastened away , for she feared that otherwise Juno might harm her two beautiful ...
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Page 139 - BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Page 142 - I breathed a song into the air, I i. fell to earth, I knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong. That it can follow the flight of song • Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke ; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend, SONNETS.
Page 29 - THE FOUNTAIN INTO the sunshine, Full of the light, Leaping and flashing From morn till night ; Into the moonlight, Whiter than snow, Waving so flower-like When the winds blow ; Into the starlight Rushing in spray, Happy at midnight, Happy by day ; Ever in...
Page 24 - I COME, I come ! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountains with light and song ! Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth, By the winds which tell of the violet's birth, By the primrose-stars in the shadowy grass, By the green leaves, opening as I pass.
Page 37 - I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges.
Page 139 - I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when, with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air...
Page 30 - Full of the light, Leaping and flashing From morn till night; Into the moonlight, Whiter than snow, Waving so flower-like When the winds blow; Into the starlight Rushing in spray, Happy at midnight, Happy by day; Ever in motion, Blithesome and cheery, Still climbing heavenward, Never aweary; Glad of all weathers, Still seeming best, Upward or downward, Motion thy rest; Full of a nature Nothing can tame, Changed every moment, Ever the same; Ceaseless aspiring, Ceaseless content, Darkness or sunshine...
Page 61 - Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing: To his music plants and flowers Ever sprung ; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring.
Page 62 - Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing die.
Page 37 - I chatter over stony ways, in little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret, by many a field and fallow, and many a fairy foreland set with willow-weed and mallow. I chatter, chatter, as I flow to join the brimming river; for men may come and men may go, but I go on for ever.