Sappho IIOh Litis, little slave, why will you sleep?
These long Egyptian noons bend down your head
Bowed like the yarrow with a yellow bee.
There, lift your eyes no man has ever kindled,
Dark…
Sappho IIIFrom " Helen of Troy and Other Poems."The twilight's inner flame grows blue and deep,
And in my Lesbos, over leagues of sea,
The temples glimmer moon-wise in the trees.
Twilight has…
Martyrs' SongWe meet in joy, though we part in sorrow;
We part to-night, but we meet to-morrow.
Be it flood or blood the path that's trod,
All the same it leads home to God:
Be it furnace-…
To AutumnOde on indolence They toil not, neither do they spin.Matthew 6:28 One morn before me were three figures seen,
With bowed necks, and joined hands, side-faced;
And one…
The Hindu god of love. His wife is Rati (voluptuousness), and he is represented as riding on sparrow, holding in his hand a bow of flowers and five arrows (i.e. the five senses). Source…
(A), that is, a blackleg (q.v.). To make a leg, is to make a bow. The pursuivant smiled at their simplicitye, And making many leggs, tooke their reward. The King and Miller of Mansfield…
The favourite flageolet-player of Charles II., introduced into Scott's Peveril of the Peak. “Julian could only bow obedience, and follow Empson, who was the same person that played so…
An Eolian harp. A box fitted with strings, like a fiddle. The strings, however, are not sounded by a bow, but by a current of air or wind passing over them. Awake, Eolian harp, awake, And…
[fash'-un. ] In a fashion or after a fashion. “In a sort of a way;” as, “he spoke French in a fashion” (i.e. very badly). (“French of Stratford atte Bowe.”) Source: Dictionary of Phrase…
