The Writings in Prose and Verse of Eugene Field
by Eugene Field
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217618557
Paperback|9780217618557
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TO DIANA O VIRGIN, tri-formed goddess fair, The guardian of the groves and hills, Who hears the girls in their despair Cry out in childbirth's cruel ills, And saves them from the Stygian flow Let the pine-tree my cottage near Be sacred to thee evermore, That I may give to it each year With joy the life-blood of the boar, Now thinking of the sidelong blow. TO HIS LUTE IF ever in the sylvan shade A song immortal we have made, Come now, O lute, 1 prithee come, Inspire a song of Latium A Lesbian first thy glories proved; In arms and in repose he loved To sweep thy dulcet strings, and raise His voice in Love's and Liber's praise. The Muses, too, and him who clings To Mother Venus' apron-strings, And Lycus beautiful, he sung In those old days when you were young. O shell, that art the ornament Of Phoebus, bringing sweet content To Jove, and soothing troubles all, ? Come and requite me, when 1 call TO LEUCONOE WHAT end the gods may have or- dained for me, And what for thee, Seek not to learn, Leucono'e; we may not know. Chaldean tables cannot bring us rest. T is for the best To bear in patience what may come, or weal or woe. If for more winters our poor lot is cast, Or this the last, Which on the crumbling rocks has dashed Etruscan seas, Strain clear the wine; this life is short, at best. Take hope with zest, And, trusting not To-morrow, snatch To- day for ease TO LEUCONOE SEEK not, Leuconoe, to know how long you 're going to live yet, What boons the gods will yet withhold, or what they 're going to give yet; For Jupiter will have his way, despite how much we worry, ? Some will hang on for many a day, and some die in a hurry. The wisest thing for you to do is to embark this diem Upon a merry escapade with some such .
| ISBN-13 | 9780217618557 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217618553 |
| Weight | 0.22 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.14 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 58 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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