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 - Seite 37herausgegeben von - 1875 - 352 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Rev.H. Musgrave Wilkins,M.A. - 1851 - 300 Seiten
...a heavy weight When time swings wide his outward gate EXERCISE CV1. CHRISTMAS HYMN. 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... | |
| 1851 - 216 Seiten
...deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. \o nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed...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... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1851 - 398 Seiten
...looks tame beside the mighty lines of Milton — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum, Ruus through the arched roof, in words deceiving. Apollo,...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. He feels from Judah's land, The dreadful Infant's hand. The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyn.... | |
| Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 Seiten
...Bending one way their precious influence ; * . * * , The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Buns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo,...breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetick cell. . The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1851 - 396 Seiten
...Milton — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum, Runs through the arched roof, in worda deceiving. Apollo, from his shrine, Can no more divine,...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. He feels from Judah'a land, The dreadful Infant's band. The rays of Bethlehem blind his duaky eyn.... | |
| Samuel Warren - 1851 - 270 Seiten
...past! — Of Marathon and Salamis! of wisdom, eloquence, and song — all silenced now. The Oracles are dumb. No voice or hideous hum runs through the arched...divine, with hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. What fates were hers, since Japheth's son set foot upon her soil — Javan, to Otho!* — Marathon,... | |
| Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 Seiten
...Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetick cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding...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... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 Seiten
...to embody forth in words the most lofty ideas. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Buns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud larnant; From haunted spring, and dale Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent;... | |
| Christmas - 1852 - 240 Seiten
...words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Dclphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires...From haunted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting genius is with sighing sent ; ltll With flower-inwoven tresses torn, The nymphs in twilight... | |
| 1852 - 874 Seiten
...fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Rnns B * pale-ey'd priests from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice... | |
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