Poems, Volume 1Ticknor and Fields, 1857 |
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Page 179
... Cytherea grows mad at his thin gasping breath , While the black blood drips down on the pale ivory , And his eye - balls lie quenched with the weight of his brows , The rose fades from his lips , and upon them just parted The kiss dies ...
... Cytherea grows mad at his thin gasping breath , While the black blood drips down on the pale ivory , And his eye - balls lie quenched with the weight of his brows , The rose fades from his lips , and upon them just parted The kiss dies ...
Page 180
... Cytherea ! the Loves are lamenting . She lost her fair spouse , and so lost her fair smile— When he lived she was fair by the whole world's con- senting , Whose fairness is dead with him ! woe worth the while ! All the mountains above ...
... Cytherea ! the Loves are lamenting . She lost her fair spouse , and so lost her fair smile— When he lived she was fair by the whole world's con- senting , Whose fairness is dead with him ! woe worth the while ! All the mountains above ...
Page 181
Robert Browning. V. Ah , ah , Cytherea ! Adonis is dead , Fair Adonis is dead - Echo answers , Adonis ! Who weeps not for Cypris , when bowing her head She stares at the wound where it gapes and astonies ? -When , ah , ah ! -she saw how ...
Robert Browning. V. Ah , ah , Cytherea ! Adonis is dead , Fair Adonis is dead - Echo answers , Adonis ! Who weeps not for Cypris , when bowing her head She stares at the wound where it gapes and astonies ? -When , ah , ah ! -she saw how ...
Page 182
... Cytherea ! Adonis is dead . She wept tear after tear , with the blood which was shed , - And both turned into flowers for the earth's garden- close , Her tears , to the wind flower , -his blood , to the rose . VII . I mourn for Adonis ...
... Cytherea ! Adonis is dead . She wept tear after tear , with the blood which was shed , - And both turned into flowers for the earth's garden- close , Her tears , to the wind flower , -his blood , to the rose . VII . I mourn for Adonis ...
Page 183
... Cytherea herself , now , the Loves are lamenting . Each torch at the door Hymenæus blew out ; And , the marriage - wreath dropping its leaves as repenting , No more ' Hymen , Hymen , ' is chanted about , But the ai ai instead - ' ai ...
... Cytherea herself , now , the Loves are lamenting . Each torch at the door Hymenæus blew out ; And , the marriage - wreath dropping its leaves as repenting , No more ' Hymen , Hymen , ' is chanted about , But the ai ai instead - ' ai ...
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