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... PROPHETESS What call unknown , what charms presume To break the quiet of the tomb ? Who thus afflicts my troubled sprite , And drags me from the realms of night ? Long on these mouldering bones have beat The winter's snow , the summer's ...
... PROPHETESS What call unknown , what charms presume To break the quiet of the tomb ? Who thus afflicts my troubled sprite , And drags me from the realms of night ? Long on these mouldering bones have beat The winter's snow , the summer's ...
Page 33
... Prophetess , arise , and say , What dangers Odin's child await , Who the author of his fate ? PROPHETESS In Hoder's hand the hero's doom ; His brother sends him to the tomb . Now my weary lips I close : Leave me , leave me to repose ...
... Prophetess , arise , and say , What dangers Odin's child await , Who the author of his fate ? PROPHETESS In Hoder's hand the hero's doom ; His brother sends him to the tomb . Now my weary lips I close : Leave me , leave me to repose ...
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... PROPHETESS Ha ! no traveller art thou , King of men , I know thee now ; Mightiest of a mighty line ODIN No boding maid of skill divine Art thou , nor prophetess of good ; But mother of the giant brood ! PROPHETESS Hie thee hence , and ...
... PROPHETESS Ha ! no traveller art thou , King of men , I know thee now ; Mightiest of a mighty line ODIN No boding maid of skill divine Art thou , nor prophetess of good ; But mother of the giant brood ! PROPHETESS Hie thee hence , and ...
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... prophetess concerning him , and visited the place of the dead for that purpose . Of her he learned that Balder was to perish at the hand of his brother Hoder , who in turn was to be killed by Vali , the son of Odin and Rinda . the evil ...
... prophetess concerning him , and visited the place of the dead for that purpose . Of her he learned that Balder was to perish at the hand of his brother Hoder , who in turn was to be killed by Vali , the son of Odin and Rinda . the evil ...
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Ęschylus Author's note awake bard beneath boast breath Cęsar cheer Comus death delight divine dream E'en earth Edited Edward Eirin Elegy English Eton College eyes Faerie Queene fame fancy favorite fear feel flowers glittering Gog and Magog golden grace Gray here quotes Gray quotes Gray's Gwynedd hand hast Hawthorne's heard heart Heaven High School human Iliad John Gilpin Julius Cęsar king Lady liberty live lyre Macaulay's Essay Mary Milton mind morn Muse ne'er never night nymphs o'er Odin once Palgrave's Golden Treasury Paradise Lost peace Pindar pleasure Poems poet poetry praise PROPHETESS Queen scene Scott's shade Shakespeare's sing skies sleep smile song soon sorrow soul sound spirit spring stanza sweet taste tear thee thine Thomas Gray thought Twas verse voice Welsh wild William Cowper wind wonder written wrote