Swinburne's Dramas
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781150599323
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1909. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHORUS For thine was her witness from birth. CHTHONIA In thy likeness I come to thee darkling, a daughter whose dawn and her even are the same. CHORUS Be thine heart to her gracious, O Earth. CHTHONIA To thine own kind be kindly, for thy son's name's sake. -oo CHORUS That sons unborn may praise thee and thy first-born son. CHTHONIA Give me thy sleep, who give thee all my life awake. CHORUS Too swift a sleep, ere half the web of day be spun. CHTHONIA Death brings the shears or ever life wind up the weft. CHORUS Their edge is ground and sharpened; who shall stay his hand? 1105 CHTHONIA The woof is thin, a small short life, with no thread left. CHORUS Yet hath it strength, stretched out, to shelter all the land. CHTHONIA Too frail a tent for covering, and a screen too strait. CHORUS Yet broad enough for buckler shall thy sweet life be. CHTHONIA A little bolt to bar off battle from the gate. mo CHORUS A wide sea-wall, that shatters the besieging sea. CHTHONIA I lift up mine eyes from the skirts of the shadow, Str. From the border of death to the limits of light; O streams and rivers of mountain and meadow That hallow the last of my sight, mj O father that wast of my mother Cephisus, O thou too his brother From the bloom of whose banks as a prey Winds harried my sister away, O crown on the world's head lying mo Too high for its waters to drown, Take yet this one word of me dying, O city, O crown. Though land-wind and sea-wind with mouths that blow slaughter Ant. Should gird them to battle against thee again, nas New-born of the blood of a maiden thy daughter, The rage of their breath shall be vain. For their strength shall be quenched and made idle, And the foam of their mouths find a bridle, And the height of their heads bow down 1130 At the foot of the tower...
| ISBN-13 | 9781150599323 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1150599324 |
| Weight | 0.87 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.60 In |
| List Price | $20.86 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 264 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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