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...s own darling and the Summer’s Queen! Lustrous as the new-throned crescent moon. Much of that early prophet look she shows, Mixed with her fair espous... ... Fixing my dying eyes for aye On the dawning brows of maiden May. SONG The moon is alone in the sky As thou in my soul; The sea takes her image to lie... ...mart, And mortal pulses beat the tune That charms the calm cold ear o’ the moon Whose yellowing crescent down the West Leans listening, now when every... ...– Renewed thro’ all changes of Heaven, unceasing in sunlight, Unceasing in moonlight, but hushed in the beams of the holier orb. 32 THE POETRY OF SHE... ...mortals, fearfully they grew! And with like purpose of audacity Threatened Titanic fury to the God. Such was the agitation of the sea Beneath Poseidon... ...e; Island on ice-island rears; Dissolution battles fast: Big the senseless Titans loom, Through a mist of common doom Striving which shall die the las... ...d subdued him, who had gained Surely the stoutest battle between two Since Titan pierced by young Apollo stained Earth’s breast, the prince looked for... ...ble the scourge of an army dispieced; Saw such a shift of the hunt as when Titan Olympus clomb. Fly! was the sportsman’s word; and the note of the qua... ...ate’s shield and sword, himself the State. He thought for them in mass, as Titan may; For their pronounced well-being bade obey; O’er each obstructive...

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... That nothing is, but that which he hath seene? What if within the Moones faire shining spheare? What if in euery other starre vnseene ... ...ith purple beames Disperst the shadowes of the mistie night, And Titan playing on the eastern streames, cleare the deawy ayre with spri... ... might be found, Endeuouring my dreadded name to raise Aboue the Moone, that fame may it resound In her eternall trompe, with laurell g... ...ghtes, Captiu’d eternally in yron mewes, And darksom dens, where Titan his face neuer shewes. There Atin found Cymochles soiourning, ... ...t Guyons angry blade so fierce did play On th’others helmet, which as Titan shone, That quite it cloue his plumed crest in tway, And ba... ...tain light; Such as a lamp, whose life does fade away: Or as the Moone cloathed with clowdy night, Does shew to him, that walkes in fea... ... Far passing th’hight of men terrestriall; Like an huge Gyant of the Titans race, That made him scorne all creatures great and small, ... ...assault, Ne once did yield it respit day nor night, But soone as Titan gan his head exault, And soone againe as he his light withhault,...

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...saffron bed, Had spred her purple robe through deawy aire, And the high hils Titan discouered, The royall virgin shooke off drowsy hed, And rising for... ...llished With royall robes and gorgeous array, A mayden Queene, that shone as Titans ray, In glistring gold, and peerelesse pretious stone: Yet her bri... ... euery stound, Yet liue perforce in balefull darkenesse bound? For now three Moones haue chãged thrice their hew, And haue beene thrice hid vnderneath... ... did wake, and waking did lament. The morrow next gan early to appeare, That Titan rose to runne his daily race: But early ere the morrow next gan rea... ...his daily race: But early ere the morrow next gan reare Out of the sea faire Titans deawy face, Vp rose the gentle virgin from her place, And looked a...

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...assertion; And although here and there some glorious rarity Arise like Titan from the sea’s immersion, The major part of such appelants go T... ...h; And then he thought of earthquakes, and of wars, How many miles the moon might have in girth, Of air balloons, and of the many bars To ... ... I like to be particular in dates, Not only of the age, and year, but moon; They are a sort of post house, where the Fates Change horses,... ...r tongue, her voice was grown so weak. The sun set, and up rose the yellow moon: The devil ‘s in the moon for mischief; they Who call’d her c... ... Sees half the business in a wicked way On which three single hours of moonshine smile And then she looks so modest all the while. There is... ... In such proportion!—But my Muse withstands The giant thought of being a Titan’s bride, Or travelling in Patagonian lands; So let us back to... ...ghty noises; While the whole rampart blazed like Etna, when The restless Titan hiccups in his den. And one enormous shout of ‘Allah!’ rose I... ...troy’d and left in airy doubt: Like to the notions we now entertain Of Titans, giants, fellows of about Some hundred feet in height, not to sa... ... In lieu of sons, of these he made no bones. But System doth reverse the Titan’s breakfast, And eats her parents, albeit the digestion Is di...

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...features of the human countenance. It seemed as if an enormous giant, or a Titan, had sculptured his own likeness on the precipice. There was the broa... ...k ing about it. The child’s name was Ernest. ‘Mother,’ said he, while the Titanic visage miled on him, ‘I wish that it could speak, for it looks so v... ...e boldly and strongly hewn, as if in emulation of a more than heroic, of a Titanic model. But the sublimity and stateliness, the grand expression of a... ...rning mist, and a slice of the densest cloud within his reach, sauced with moonshine, whenever he could get it. Certain it is, that the poetry which f... ...it might seem so easy to follow to its source a light that overpowered the moon, and almost matched the sun. It was observable that each smiled scornf... ...ence, and return to our humble cottage. The blessed sunshine and the quiet moonlight shall come through our window. We will kindle the cheerful glow o... ...life. The whole night long, he would lift his splendor blasted orbs to the moon and stars; he turned his face eastward, at sunrise, as duly as a Persi... ...t is, indeed, a wondrous path. A demon, it might be fancied, or one of the Titans, was travelling up the valley, elbowing the heights carelessly aside...

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...ng wight. For he by words could call out of the sky Both Sunne and Moone, and make them him obay: The land to sea, and sea to maineland... ...ther send. He bad tell on; and then she thus began. Now haue three Moones with borrow’d brothers light, Thrice shined faire, and thrice... ... turne to me againe, And bring with him his long expected light? O Titan, haste to reare thy ioyous waine: Speed thee to spred abroad t... ...ntique bookes is mentioned. It was vpon a Sommers shynie day, When Titan faire his beames did display, In a fresh fountaine, farre from... ...ire bespake, That Geauntesse Argante is behight, A daughter of the Titans which did make Warre against heauen, and heaped hils on hight...

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... improvements, were his principal occupation. At night, when the unclouded moon shone on the calm sea, he often went alone in his little shallop to th... ...l is Death, Death and his brother Sleep! One pale as yonder wan and horned moon, With lips of lurid blue, The other glowing like the vital morn, ... ... _30 Ianthe doth not sleep The dreamless sleep of death: Nor in her moonlight chamber silently Doth Henry hear her regular pulses throb, Or mar... ... _35 With interchange of hues mock the broad moon, Outwatching weary night, Without assured reward. 27 Shelley Her dewy... ...vanished, like thin mist Unrolled on the morning wind. Know ye not me, The Titan? He who made his agony The barrier to your else all-conquering foe? O... ...Image, as thou art must be He whom thou shadowest forth. I am his foe, The Titan. Speak the words which I would hear, Although no thought inform thine... ...! IONE: IONE: IONE: IONE: IONE: Fear not: ’tis but some passing spasm, The Titan is unvanquished still. _315 But s... ... new pangs to be fed? P P P P PANTHEA: ANTHEA: ANTHEA: ANTHEA: ANTHEA: The Titan looks as ever, firm, not proud. FIRST FUR FIRST FUR FIRST FUR FIRST F... ...FUR SECOND FUR SECOND FUR SECOND FUR SECOND FURY Y Y Y Y: : : : : Immortal Titan! THIRD FUR THIRD FUR THIRD FUR THIRD FUR THIRD FURY Y Y Y Y: : : : : ...

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...1 THE CONE ..................................................................................................................................... 56 A MOONLIGHT FABLE................................................................................................................ 67 THE DIAMOND MAKER................................................................................

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........................................................................ 56 A MOONLIGHT FABLE .............................................................. ... in barely in time, and on the way we passed my wall and door—livid in the moonlight, blotched with hot yellow as the glare of our lamps lit it, but u... ...ay at sea had heard nothing of its advent and saw it now rise like a pigmy moon and climb zenithward and hang overhead and sink westward with the pass... ...sight of it. “It is larger,” they cried. “It is brighter!” And, indeed the moon a quarter full and sink- ing in the west was in its apparent size beyo... ...ness rose the strange star again. And it was now so bright that the waxing moon seemed but a pale yellow ghost of itself, hanging huge in the sunset. ... ...il and trees and houses in the way, and piling huge dykes and scooping out Titanic gullies over the country side. Those were the days of darkness that... ...eam-hammer beat the juice out of the succulent iron, and black, half-naked Titans rushed the plastic bars, like hot sealing-wax, between the wheels. “...

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...er deadly strife were separated each from other; and how the stars and the moon and the paths of the sun ever keep their fixed place in the sky; and h... ...nto the waves of Ocean; but the other two meanwhile ruled over the blessed Titan gods, while Zeus, still a child and with the thoughts of a child, dwe... ...se at hand with the rosy flush of his beauty and sweet grace. For the full moon beaming from the sky smote him. And Cypris made her heart faint, and i... ...yra, where Cronos, son of Uranus, what time in Olympus he reigned over the Titans, and Zeus was yet being nurtured in a Cretan cave by the Curetes of ... ... as they rush roaring on, and checks the stars and the paths of the sacred moon. Of her we bethought us as we came hither along the path from the pala... ...in dusky garments. And beneath, the dark earth shook and bellowed when the Titanian root was cut; and the son of Iapetus himself groaned, his soul dis... ...er ess is wont to do; and her soul fluttered with quivering fear. And the Titanian goddess, the moon, rising from a far land, beheld her as she fled ... ... and her soul fluttered with quivering fear. And the Titanian goddess, the moon, rising from a far land, beheld her as she fled distraught, and fierce... ...undless grove. Those heard it who dwelt in the Colchian land very far from Titanian Aea, near the The Argonautica 121 outfall of Lycus, the river whi...

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...said Horrocks. “You promised,” said Raut, “to show me some fine effects of moonlight and smoke.” “I promised to show you some fine effects of moonligh... ...some knotty problem. Raut glanced at him and away again. “ At present your moon- light effect is hardly ripe,” he continued, looking upward; “the moon... ...daylight? … Of course, 21 H.G . Wells of course.” He too looked up at the moon, pale still in the midsummer sky. “Come along,” he said suddenly, and ... ...ut comes the flare.” “I see,” said Raut. He looked over his shoulder. “The moon gets brighter,” he said. “Come along,” said Horrocks abruptly, grippin... ... canal. “Eigh?” said Horrocks. “What?” said Raut. “Rather! The haze in the moonlight. Fine!” “Our canal,” said Horrocks, stopping suddenly. “Our ca- n... ...eam-hammer beat the juice out of the succulent iron, and black, half-naked Titans rushed the plastic bars, like hot sealing-wax, between the wheels, “... ...up another thigh-bone four feet six or more, and that they called Æpyornis Titan. Then your vastus was found after old Havers died, in his collection,... ...il and trees and houses in the way, and piling huge dykes and scooping out Titanic gullies over the country-side. Those were the days of darkness that...

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...tesy, the very idea of a call des- tined to be inoperative, is and must be moonshine. Yet be- tween two moonshines, some people, it seems, can tell wh... ...es into a pseudo-General Assembly. When there are two suns visible, or two moons, the real one and its duplicate, we call 28 Theological Essays and O... ...says and Other Papers – V olume Two the mock sun a parhelios, and the mock moon a paraselene. On that principle, we must call this mock Assembly a par... ...m. II. The fashion, however, of adorning the necklace with golden Suns and Moons, so agreeable to the Hebrew ladies of Isaiah’s time, (chap. iii. 18,)... ... (Judges, viii. 21,) the camels of the Midianites were adorned with golden moons, which also decorated the necks of the emirs of that nomadic tribe. T... ...ad armed the arts of war and of locomotion with the fabulous powers of the Titans, and with the whole resources of a mighty nation at his immediate di...

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................................................................... 89 To the Moon. ........................................................................ ...................................................... 104 To the Rising Full Moon. ........................................................................ ...e’er the sun his beams O’er ocean flings; I think of thee, whene’er the moonlight gleams In silv’ry springs. I see thee, when upon the distant ri... ...e night! For then thou o’ershadow’st the lustre, Dazzling and fair, of the moon. Dazzling and beauteous art thou, And flowers, and moon, and the plane... ... broke, And glared with hundred gloomy eyes. From out a hill of clouds the moon With mournful gaze began to peer: The winds their soft wings flutter’d... ...rt, like mine, T o feel compassion for distress. Who help’d me Against the Titans’ insolence? Who rescued me from certain death, From slavery? Didst t... ...stant: From out the abysses’ Dark jaws, the breath rises Of torment-choked Titans Up tow’rds them, like incense In light clouds ascending. The rulers ...

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...es, which gave great satisfaction, and by singing the Eiresione at the New Moon festivals, he earned a subsistence, visiting the houses of the rich, w... ...t with chains the omnipotence of Heaven. Then, call’d by thee, the monster Titan came (Whom gods Briareus, men Ægeon name), Through wondering skies en... ... bold Ormenian and Asterian bands In forty barks Eurypylus commands. Where Titan hides his hoary head in snow, And where Hyperia’s silver fountains fl... ...etters bound, 109 And lodged in brazen dungeons underground, Full thirteen moons imprison’d roar’d in vain; Otus and Ephialtes held the chain: Perhaps... ...ightning, hadst thou hence been thrown, Where chain’d on burning rocks the Titans groan.” Thus he who shakes Olympus with his nod; Then gave to Pæon’s... ...heerful gales refresh the lazy air: 183 Pope There arm once more the bold Titanian band; And arm in vain; for what I will, shall stand.” Now deep in ... ...at in order round, And beaming fires illumined all the ground. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, 158 O’er heaven’s pure azure spreads her sac... ... grown, Amazed he stood, with terrors not his own. O’er his broad back his moony shield he threw, And, glaring round, by tardy steps withdrew. Thus th... ...e hand sustain, And stretch the other o’er the sacred main: Call the black Titans, that with Chronos dwell, To hear and witness from the depths of hel...

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...conviction that the phantom is but a di- lated reflection of himself. This Titan amongst the appari- tions of earth is exceedingly capricious, vanishi... ...ishop Wilkins 3 on the art of translating right reverend gentlemen to the moon; and, in the mean time, he resumed his general lectures on physics. Fr... ...ld purely aerial, where all the com- bats and the sufferings were absolute moonshine. And yet the simple truth is, that, for anxiety and distress of m... ...harles II., notoriously wrote a book on the possibility of a voyage to the moon, which, in a bishop, would be called a translation to the moon, and pe... ... the human race there has at most periods of the world been a separate and Titanic race, such as the Anakim amongst the peoples of Palestine, the Cycl... ...ngst other tribes of the ordinary standard. Occasional exhumations of such Titan skeletons would strengthen the common prejudice. They would be taken,... ... serviceable allies that Sir Sidney ever had by land or sea, until several moons later, when he formed the invaluable acquaintance of the Syrian “butc... ...were, they moved within the paling of order and decorum; they were not the Titans for a war against the heavens. When the public feeling beckoned and ... ...ants,” offers “accommodations for one thousand guests.” (2.) Yet even this Titanic structure dwindles by comparison with The Mount V ernon Hotel at Ca...

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...shine! Night quits her car, the twinkling stars decline, Pallid and cold the Moon descends to cave Her swinging beams beneath the Western wave; But th... ..., Weigh’d down with years the hills dissolve away. A certain space to yonder Moon is given, She rises, smiles, and then is lost in Heaven. Ocean in su... ... youthful strength! Age, dark unlovely Age, appears at length, As gleams the moonbeam through the broken cloud While mountain vapours spread their mis... ... So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, And the s... ... day returns too soon, Yet we’ll go no more a roving By the light of the moon. 11 Prometheus and Selected Short Poems of Lord Byron ‘And thou art... ...ing years. 28 Prometheus and Selected Short Poems of Lord Byron PROMETHEUS Titan! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality, ... ...Should have a listener, nor will sigh Until its voice is echoless. Titan! to thee the strife was given Between the suffering and the ...

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...yeomanry farm- ers—returning to their beds over ferny commons under bright moonlight from a neighbour’s harvest-home, eased their bub- bling breasts w... ...the covet- ously ambitious a sty, to the dullard his amphitheatre, arms of Titans to the desperately enterprising, Olympus to the genius.’ What a woma... ...ave done it, and he is of the departed! Had he dared, he would (for he was Titan enough) have raised the Art in dignity on a level with History; to an... ...ircles had formed, one to front the Hero; the other the Beauty. These half moons imperceptibly dis- solved to replenish, and became a fixed obstructio... ... said: ‘Will you find your way?’ He spoke of three hours of daylight and a moon to rise. ‘She has often pointed out to me from your ridges where The C... ...his own Southeastward over fields and ditches, favoured by a round horizon moon on his left. So for a couple of hours he went ahead over rolling fal- ... ...e rails she sided with her friend in detesting. Reasonable women, too! The moon, stood high on her march as he entered Storling. He led his good beast... ... and they answered to their names of trades and crafts after the manner of Titania’s elves, 124 Diana of the Crossways and were questioned as to thei... ...ous concerning him simply. Dacier flung the hair off his temples. Words of Titanic formation were hurling in his head at journals and journal- ists. H...

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...m that the youth was consuming paper. Lady Blandish likewise hinted at his mooning propensities. Sir Austin from his lofty watch-tower of the System h... ...ne of the empiricisms that are afloat. Now to keep him clear of them!” The Titans had an easier task in storming Olympus. As yet, however, it could no... ...ck; and the stars leap forth, and tremble, and retire before the advancing moon, who slips the silver train of cloud from her shoulders, and, with her... .... There is heard but the night-jar spinning on the pine-branch, circled by moonlight. 123 George Meredith CHAPTER XX ENCHANTED ISLANDS have not yet r... ... rounded the lake, and got upon the road through the park to Lobourne. The moon had risen. The atmosphere was warm and pleasant. “Quite a lover’s nigh... ...nd ranged in amphitheatre with dis- tant flushed bodies over sea and land: Titanic crimson head and chest rising from the wave faced Hyperion falling.... ...ced, and shivered. Not only were they to be knights, they would have to be Titans, for the powers of the world, the spurious ruling Social Gods, would... ...e spurious ruling Social Gods, would have to be defied and overthrown. And Titan number one flung up his hand- some bold face as if to challenge base ... ... up his hand- some bold face as if to challenge base Jove on the spot; and Titan number two strained the upper button of his coat to meet across his p...

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...apparent, came on deck, at two o’clock in the morning, to see a noble full moon sinking westward, and millions of the most brilliant stars shining ove... ...t set, but over the town and lofty rocky castle of Vigo a great ghost of a moon was faintly visible, which blazed out brighter and brighter as the sup... ...purple waters had grown more purple. The sun had set by this time, and the moon above was twice as big and bright as our degenerate moons are. THE PRO... ...cially at evening, when the people are sauntering along the walks, and the moon is shining on the waters of the bay and the hills and twinkling white ... ...entirely to romance; the sen- tries look noble pacing there, silent in the moonlight, and Sandy’s voice is quite musical as he challenges with a “Who ... ...ch the Pantheon and Colosseum are vulgar and coarse, mere broad-shouldered Titans before ambrosial Jove); but these fantastic spires, and cupolas, and...

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... overwhelming architecture. The place into which he looked was an aisle of Titanic buildings, curving spaciously in either direction. Overhead mighty ... ...d moving shapes and lengthy strips of impenetrable darkness, vast ungainly Titans of shadow. All about them, huge metallic structures, iron girders, i... ... men—” “Hear the people calling to you!” Graham’s mind was like a night of moon and swift clouds, now dark and hopeless, now clear and ghastly. He was... ...e echo of the battle, fewer and fewer people passed him, until at last the Titanic streets became deserted. The frontages of the buildings grew plain ... ...en destroyed by 103 H G Wells the Council’s orders, skeletons of girders, Titanic masses of wall, forests of stout pillars. Amongst the sombre wrecka... ...ross archings of such a massiveness as Graham had never before seen, thick Titans of greasy, shining brickwork crushed beneath the vast weight of that...

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...‘to write verses;’ light Apollo, so clear, soft-lucent, in this war of the Titans, wherein he shall not conquer! Folded and hawked Newspapers exist in... ...;” and therewith she, like a bright Sky-wanderer or Planet with her little Moon, is- sues forth peculiar. (Narrative by a Lorraine Federate (given in ... ...o- sions, and such tumultuous seething and tumbling, steam half way to the Moon; O thou unfathomable mystic All, garment and dwellingplace of the unna... .... The hoariest- headed man will tread one other measure, under this nether Moon; speechless nurselings, infants as we call them, (Greek), crow in arms... ...d our old Planet, in that huge conic Shadow of hers ‘which goes beyond the Moon, and is named Night,’ curtained such a Ball-room. O if, according to S... ...u:’ elsewhere we read that she ‘was charmed with him, ’ the wild submitted Titan; as indeed it is among the honourable tokens of this high ill-fated h... ...exed into froth allay themselves. But if, as we often write, the submarine Titanic Fire-powers came into play, the Ocean bed from beneath being burst?... ...y hurled Poseidon Lafayette and his Constitution out of Space; and, in the Titanic melee, sea were mixed with sky? Chapter 2.3.VI. Mirabeau. The spiri... ... for him; that, on this day, he has to depart and be no more. His death is Titanic, as his life has been. Lit up, for the last time, in the glare of c...