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... and Other Modern Poets 55 The Moon and the Sun from the Homeric Hymns to Keats III . Diana and Endymion Before and After Keats IV . The Titan Sun of Keats · • 135 • 275 280850 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS • Max Klinger Frontispiece The War of.
... and Other Modern Poets 55 The Moon and the Sun from the Homeric Hymns to Keats III . Diana and Endymion Before and After Keats IV . The Titan Sun of Keats · • 135 • 275 280850 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS • Max Klinger Frontispiece The War of.
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... Endymion · 142 172 Endymion . Hyperion Apollo . Watts 248 • 258 . 9276 · 326 THE PROMETHEUS MYTH FROM HESIOD TO SHELLEY I The Prometheus.
... Endymion · 142 172 Endymion . Hyperion Apollo . Watts 248 • 258 . 9276 · 326 THE PROMETHEUS MYTH FROM HESIOD TO SHELLEY I The Prometheus.
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... ENDYMION BEFORE AND AFTER KEATS HE myth of Diana and Endymion has ap- TH pealed to many poets and artists because of its intrinsic loveliness . Each poet who has versi- fied the story has found some different element to emphasize in his ...
... ENDYMION BEFORE AND AFTER KEATS HE myth of Diana and Endymion has ap- TH pealed to many poets and artists because of its intrinsic loveliness . Each poet who has versi- fied the story has found some different element to emphasize in his ...
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... Endymion occur frequently in the Greek and Latin writers , and by piecing these together a tolerably consistent version of it may be obtained . Selene was re- garded as a most beautiful goddess with long wings . Upon her head she wore a ...
... Endymion occur frequently in the Greek and Latin writers , and by piecing these together a tolerably consistent version of it may be obtained . Selene was re- garded as a most beautiful goddess with long wings . Upon her head she wore a ...
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... Although there came to be in Greece another moon - goddess , Artemis , the two did not remain The myth of Selene , whose love for distinct . Endymion was the talk of the Olympians , was told 140 ANCIENT MYTHS IN MODERN POETS.
... Although there came to be in Greece another moon - goddess , Artemis , the two did not remain The myth of Selene , whose love for distinct . Endymion was the talk of the Olympians , was told 140 ANCIENT MYTHS IN MODERN POETS.
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Ęschylus Apollo Asia beauty behold breathe bright Caria clouds Cynthia dark deep Demogorgon divine dream earth Endymion eternal Eumenides evil eyes fair fate feel fire flowers gaze glory goddess gods golden Greek grief hand hath heard heart heaven Hermes Hesiod Homeric Hymn human hymn Hyperion ideal imagination immortal Jove Jupiter Keats kiss light lips live mankind Max Klinger melody metheus mind Moon mortal mountains myth nature never night o'er Okeanides Okeanos pain Panthea Peona Phoebus play poem poet Prome Prometheus Prometheus Bound Saturn Selene shadow shalt Shelley Shelley's sigh sing sleep slumber soft song soul spirit stars steeds story sweet symbol Tartaros tell Tellus Thea thee Themis thine things thou art thought throne thunder tion Titans Tulchuherris UNIVERS UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA vision voice wind wings wonder worship youth Zeus
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Page 108 - To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy power which seems omnipotent ; To love and bear ; to hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...
Page 251 - I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of Imagination— What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth— whether it existed before or not...
Page 290 - Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.
Page 250 - I shall call the Chamber of Maiden-Thought, than we become intoxicated with the light and the atmosphere, we see nothing but pleasant wonders, and think of delaying there for ever in delight. However among the effects this breathing is father of is that tremendous one of sharpening one's vision into the heart and nature of Man — of convincing one's nerves that the world is full of Misery and Heart-break, Pain, Sickness and oppression...
Page 270 - ENDYMION. THE rising moon has hid the stars ; Her level rays, like golden bars, Lie on the landscape green, With shadows brown between. And silver white the river gleams, As if Diana, in her dreams, Had dropt her silver bow Upon the meadows low.
Page 347 - Then I arise, and climbing Heaven's blue dome, I walk over the mountains and the waves, Leaving my robe upon the ocean foam ; My footsteps pave the clouds with fire ; the caves Are filled with my bright presence, and the air Leaves the green earth to my embraces bare.
Page 271 - O, drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved again ! No one is so accursed by fate, No one so utterly desolate, But some heart, though unknown,. Responds unto his own.
Page 83 - To move, to breathe, to be; I wandering went Among the haunts and dwellings of mankind, And first was disappointed not to see Such mighty change as I had felt within Expressed in outward things; but soon I looked...
Page 64 - Hypocrisy and custom make their minds The fanes of many a worship, now outworn. They dare not devise good for man's estate, And yet they know not that they do not dare. The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want : worse need for them.
Page 316 - And only blind from sheer supremacy, One avenue was shaded from thine eyes, Through which I wandered to eternal truth. And first, as thou wast not the first of powers, So art thou not the last ; it cannot be. Thou art not the beginning nor the end.