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2388With mind intent?
2388hath all the ignorance-- Which bred thy trouble-- vanished, My Arjun?
10716And what else is any other poetry?
10716And who, with any active sympathy for poetry, can say that Milton felt his theme with less intensity than Homer?
10716But compare Virgil''s"Tantaene animis celestibus irae?"
10716Does he find them pleasant, then, just because they are risky?
10716Does that mean that the epic must be allegorical?
10716For where will the primitive instinct of man, where will the hero, find the chance of creating a value for life?
10716How then can we speak of epic purpose invading drama?
10716Is it honour?
10716Is it, then, only as such a relaxation that supernatural machinery is valuable?
10716Or only as a superlative kind of ornament?
10716V. AFTER MILTON And after Milton, what is to happen?
10716Virgil is more decorous; but can we imagine Virgil praying, or anybody praying, to the gods of the_ Aeneid_?
10716What epic quality, detached from epic proper, do these poems possess, then, apart from the mere fact that they take up a great many pages?
10716Why is the latter celebrated and not the former?
1719And was not God my armourer, All patient and unpaid, That sealed my skull as a helmet, And ribs for hauberk made? 1719 And well may God with the serving- folk Cast in His dreadful lot; Is not He too a servant, And is not He forgot?
1719Brothers at arms,said Alfred,"On this side lies the foe; Are slavery and starvation flowers, That you should pluck them so?
1719But even though such days endure, How shall it profit her? 1719 For was not God my gardener And silent like a slave; That opened oaks on the uplands Or thicket in graveyard gave?
1719I go not far; Where would you meet? 1719 Or that before the red cock crow All we, a thousand strong, Go down the dark road to God''s house, Singing a Wessex song?
1719To sweat a slave to a race of slaves, To drink up infamy? 1719 What goddess was your mother, What fay your breed begot, That you should not die with Uther And Arthur and Lancelot?
1719What have the strong gods given? 1719 Why dwell the Danes in North England, And up to the river ride?
1719Will ye part with the weeds for ever? 1719 And his grey- green eyes were cruel, And the smile of his mouth waxed hard, And he said,And when did Britain Become your burying- yard?
1719But as he came before his line A little space along, His beardless face broke into mirth, And he cried:"What broken bits of earth Are here?
1719But who shall look from Alfred''s hood Or breathe his breath alive?
1719Do you have joy without a cause, Yea, faith without a hope?"
1719Eldred the Good is fallen-- Are you too good to fall?
1719In cloud of clay so cast to heaven What shape shall man discern?
1719Not less barbarian laughter Choked Harold like a flood,"And shall I fight with scarecrows That am of Guthrum''s blood?
1719Or show daisies to the door?
1719Or will you bid the bold grass Go, and return no more?
1719Smiled Alfred,"Seek ye a fable More dizzy and more dread Than all your mad barbarian tales Where the sky stands on its head?
1719When Guthrum sits on a hero''s throne And asks if he is dead?
1719Where have the glad gods led?
1719are you bloodless now?"
17445''Our greeting icesmiths three, Comes North Wind''s Daughter forth? 17445 ''Our greetings, grinders three, Comes North Wind''s Daughter forth?
17445Allow me but a moment here to stay, To look into these parchments and their spell; Is this the place of which you spoke that day?
17445But why,he asked,"do you not labour too?"
17445Good evening, uncle,greetings she expressed,"No visitor is usual here so late?
17445Is all prepared?
17445Oh heavenly being, tell me true: What place is this? 17445 Oh, Riga, can you find, Yet things that we hold dear?
17445Why did you not say sooner? 17445 -May Perkons and the gods such times prevent!- But where is now Laimdota? 17445 Alone the peacock sat and did not work.- The Devil, passing by, then asked the bird:Where is the place the other creatures lurk?"
17445Already but the half you mark Of wicked things that once you did; Then why should I remember them?
17445And chaste Laimdota too?
17445And half aloud the rider thought:"Where can my missing brother be?
17445Bearslayer''s Wedding"Why does my garland sit So crooked on my brow?
17445But does not briefest joy pain overthrow, And blunt of life the sharpest anguish keen?
17445But have I now perhaps bought life too dear?
17445But who the Devil''s grip can shake, Escape a pact conceived in sin, An oath in blood, once signed, can break?"
17445Could thus Koknesis prove so false, his friend?
17445Did growing fat on roasted meat Within stone castles tedious grow?"
17445Does all go well?
17445God built himself a byre; the Devil scorned:''What use a byre when yet no cows are there?''
17445He shouted in the horse''s ear:"What groundless fear is troubling you?
17445How could this be?
17445How many words there now flowed free, When each unchecked could full relate Adventures faced on land and sea, Of tribulations and harsh fate?
17445I beg you, tell me, who are you?
17445Oh Riga, what behind, Is left for looting here?
17445Oh, paradise on earth we briefly know, Why drive you forth your favoured ones so soon, Your pleasures but a fleeting moment show?
17445The rider asked why it had stopped:"What do you fear?
17445Touched now, Koknesis took her part, And gently spoke and helped her rise:"Why, little one, so sick at heart, That tears flow from your comely eyes?"
17445Were you the babe a savage she- bear bore?
17445Where am I now?
17445Why give them bitter sorrow as your boon?
17445Why so late?"
17445Will Destiny''s father, grizzled, deathless might, Again such sacred wisdom ever call?
17445the youth replied,"Why should not you blow trees away?"
16506--Is there no_ Third_, or will such_ Reas''nings_ pass In_ Bridewel''s_ rigid Court, or save the_ Lash_?
16506990 Why thrive the_ Lewd_, their_ Wishes_ seldom crost, And why_ Poetic Justice_ often lost?
16506All_ Arts_ besides_ improve, Sea, Air_ and_ Land_} Are every day with_ nicer Judgment_ scan''d,} And why should_ this_ alone be at a_ stand_?}
16506And ca n''t you_ thrash_, or_ trail_ a_ Pike_ or_ Pole_?
16506And what a noble Description has the same Prophet of the Fall of Lucifer?
16506Are there no_ Jakes_ in Town, or_ Kennels_ foul?
16506As for that Question of Boileau''s,"What Pleasure can it be to hear the howlings of repining Lucifer?"
16506But here it may be worth the while to enquire, whether the principal Hero in Epic ought to be virtuous?
16506Can they grapple_ Omnipotence,_ or are they sure they can be_ too hard_ for_ Heaven?
16506For if we allow not such a pleasing Variety, how shall we excuse even Virgil himself, who has his Dido, as well a Tasso his Armida and Erminia?
16506Has_ Bankrupt Nature_ then no_ more_ to give, Or by a_ Trick_ persuades Mankind to_ live_?
16506He finds_ Examples_, we the_ Rule_ must make, Tho who without a Guide may not mistake?
16506How few can equal_ Praise_ with_ C----ch_ obtain, Who made_ Lucretius smooth_, and_ chast_, and_ plain_?
16506How oft must he for those_ Life- Touches_ sit,_ Genius, Invention, Memory, Judgment, Wit_?
16506If there''s_ Hereafter_, and a last_ Great Day_, What_ Fire_''s enough to_ purge_ his_ Stains_ away?
16506No_ honester Employment_, that you chuse With such_ vile Drudgery_ t''abase the heav''n born_ Muse_?
16506Or are there too in_ Writing softer Hours_?
16506Or is''t that_ Matter_ nobler_ Mind_ o''erpow''rs, Which boasts her_ native Liberty_ in vain, 380 In_ Mortal Fetters_ and a_ Slavish Chain_?
16506Or_ P----r_ read unmov''d, whose every_ Page_ So just a_ Standard_ to the opening_ Age_?
16506Speak, like the wise_ Italian_, well of all; Who knows into what_ Hands_ he''s doom''d to_ fall_?
16506To the question of the formidable Boileau,"What Pleasure can it be to hear the howlings of repining Lucifer?"
16506What can we there, while more than_ mortal Grace_ Forbids our_ Entrance_, and secures the_ Place_?
16506What gain''d_ Euripides_ by all his_ Sense_, Who madly rail''d against a_ Providence_?
16506What_ Pride_, what_ Luxury_, a foul, an odious Train?}
16506What_ Shoals of Vices_ with''em cross''d the Main?}
16506Who can th''ingenious S----y''s Praise refuse, Who serves a grateful_ Prince_, and grateful_ Muse_?
16506Who dares_ Rebellious Arms_ against him move While his_ Prà ¦ torian Guard_''s his Subjects_ Love_?
16506Who shew''d_ Columbus_ where the_ Indies_ lay?
16506Why should we still be_ lazily content_ 260 With thredbare_ Schemes_, and nothing_ new_ invent?
16506You ask me, What''s the readiest way to_ Fame_, And how to gain a_ Poet''s_ sacred Name?
16506You''ll ask, What GENIUS is, and Where to find?
16506_ Can they_ Thunder_ with a_ Voice like God,_ and cast abroad the_ Rage_ of their_ Wrath?
16506_ Why no more_ must we for ever long And vainly languish for so_ sweet_ a_ Song_?
16506may we not_ copy_ well Tho far th''_ Original_ our_ Art_ excel?
16506nay, how shall we manage Love?
20406Here you sit, Sivard, my foster- brother; will you lend me your good sword for your honour? 20406 Hold your tongue,"said Thorkell;"does the fool think he can give life to a man when his doom is set?
20406Signild, my sister, where got you the golden rings on your hand?
20406What counsel shall we now take?
20406What will you do?
20406Which of you was it that thought it convenient to burn me in my house?
20406Will you promise me quarter?
20406); the luck of Hermelin(?
20406--"And how shall I bring to your hands the head of Sivard?
20406At last Bolli said:"Mother, will you tell me one thing?
20406Do you not remember how I was assailed and beset at our home- coming?
20406Hedin confesses his vanity to Helgi, and is forgiven, Helgi saying,"Who knows but the oath may be fulfilled?
20406Hogni begs them to let the creature go,--"Why should we have to put up with his squalling?"
20406It has been in my mind to ask you, who was the man you loved best?"
20406Kjartan says to Bolli:"Will you try your swimming against this townsman?"
20406Kjartan spoke, and said to Bolli:"Kinsman, are you willing to take this faith of the king''s?"
20406Says Kjartan:"Seemed the king to you to have no threats for those that refused to accept his will?"
20406Skapti said:"That is something for a man to be proud of; but what do you think of the three, and how are they each of them in courage?"
20406The Duke saw them and began to sigh, and his lady questioned him:--"Ah, my Lord Duke, why do you ponder thus?
20406The authors of that romantic school, if ever they talked shop, may have asked one another,"Where do you put your Felon Red Knight?
20406The creed of Maldon is that of Achilles:[5]"Xanthus, what need is there to prophesy of death?
20406The townsman said:"It may make some difference to know with whom you have been matched; why do you not ask?"
20406The townsman said:"You are a good swimmer; are you as good at other sports as at this?"
20406The_ Teseide_ is the first of the solemn row of modern epics;"reverend and divine, abiding without motion, shall we say that they have being?"
20406Then said Kolbein:"Is there no man here remembers Snorri Sturluson?
20406Then says the stranger:"Who may this man be?"
20406They may be epic in character, in a general way, but how many of them have a claim to the title in its eminent and special sense?
20406What was an author to do when his hero died in his bed, or survived all his feuds and enmities?
20406Where do you put your doing away of the Ill Custom?
20406Where else is there anything like it, for sincerity and for thinness?
20406Will you prefer a paltry legal quibble to the plain open justice of the case?"
20406[ Footnote 76: Li cuens Guillaumes li comença à dire:--Diva, vilain, par la loi do nt tu vives Fus- tu a Nymes, la fort cité garnie?
20406_ Maldon_, l. 45_ sq._,"Hearest thou what this people answer?
20406it is not like a gentleman to try to take in an old man like me; how could you be beaten?"
20406or when a feud could not be wound up in one generation?
20406or your tournaments?"
20406por quoi ne te repenz De ces simples lasses destruire?
20406where are your oaths that you swore?
20406why have I not a little habergeon of my own?
20406why is your head shaved?"
13983Oh, Rakush, why so thoughtless grown To fight a lion thus alone? 13983 Tell me now, friend Volker, will you stand me by, If these men of Kriemhild''s would my mettle try?
13983Was it this, ah me, I followed over land and sea? 13983 Where is my Roland, sire,"she cried,"Who vowed to take me for his bride?"
13983''But what a scene was there?
13983AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE Who would list to the good lay Gladness of the captive grey?
13983And fate to numbers, by a single hand?
13983For fate who fear''d amidst a feastful band?
13983Have I struck thee, brother?
13983Him, while he pass''d, the monster blind bespoke:"What makes my ram the lag of all the flock?
13983His plans are, however, detected by Dido, who vehemently demands, how he dares forsake her now?
13983How could thy master have conveyed His helm, and battle- axe, and blade, Unaided to Mazinderan?
13983How then in the gates of Valhall may the door of the gleaming ring Clash to on the heel of Sigurd, as I follow on my king?"
13983How then may the road he wendeth be hard for my feet to find?
13983In jest or earnest say, Have I offended you?
13983Is it with Rustum only thou wouldst fight?
13983Meanwhile, further to satisfy his curiosity, Adam inquires how the sun and stars move so quietly in their orbit?
13983One of the sufferers confined here suddenly asks Dante,"Who art thou that earnest ere thine hour?"
13983Roland marvelled at such a blow, And thus bespake him soft and low:"Hast thou done it, my comrade, wittingly?
13983Seest thou these lids that now unfold in vain,( The deed of Noman and his wicked train?)
13983She, too, sends Brahmans in all directions, singing"Where is the one who, after stealing half of his wife''s garment, abandoned her in the jungle?"
13983Then, addressing Satan, Gabriel demands why he broke his prescribed bonds?
13983Then, all at once, a voice addresses Dante, who, prompted by Virgil, inquires where the next stairway may be?
13983Then, hearing her order that his bed be removed to the portico, he hotly demands who cut down the tree which formed one of its posts?
13983Then, turning upon his interlocutor, Christ inquires why he is so anxious to promote the one whose rise will entail his fall?
13983Thirsting for information, Dante inquires of him"how bitter can spring when sweet is sown?"
13983What if my lost beloved I may revenge at last?"
13983Why did ye carry with you brides ye loved not, treacherous curs?
13983Why didst thou fail to give the alarm, And save thyself from chance of harm, By neighing loudly in my ear?
13983Why have ye laid my heartstrings bare?
13983Why tear their flesh in Corpes wood with saddle- girths and spurs, And leave them to the beasts of prey?
13983_ 12th Adventure._ Twelve whole years elapse ere Brunhild asks Gunther how it happens his vassal Siegfried has never yet come to Worms to do homage?
13983_ Canto XIV._ The two spirits leaning close together, in their turn question who Virgil and Dante may be?
13983_ Canto XXXIII._ The seven Virtues having chanted a hymn, Beatrice motions to Statius and Dante to follow her, asking the latter why he is so mute?
13983in my friend''s dear spoils arrayed To me for mercy sue?
13983shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?"
13983what excuse, what answer do ye make?
13983wherefore dost thou vainly question thus Of Rustum?
58Hast thou not right to all created things? 58 How hast thou hunger then?"
58Tell me, if food were now before thee set, 320 Wouldst thou not eat?
58Why should that Cause thy refusal?
5820 These godlike virtues wherefore dost thou hide?
58200 Know''st thou not that my rising is thy fall, And my promotion will be thy destruction?"
58230 Without their learning, how wilt thou with them, Or they with thee, hold conversation meet?
58330 Or, if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?
58380 Shall I receive by gift what of my own, When and where likes me best, I can command?
58All hope is lost Of my reception into grace; what worse?
58And dar''st thou to the Son of God propound To worship thee, accursed?
58And think''st thou to regain Thy right by sitting still, or thus retiring?
58And what in me seems wanting but that I 450 May also in this poverty as soon Accomplish what they did, perhaps and more?
58And what the people but a herd confused, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol 50 Things vulgar, and, well weighed, scarce worth the praise?
58And who withholds my power that right to use?
58And with my hunger what hast thou to do?
58But what concerns it thee when I begin My everlasting Kingdom?
58But what have been thy answers?
58But whence to thee this zeal?
58But where delays he now?
58But wherewith to be achieved?
58For what is glory but the blaze of fame, The people''s praise, if always praise unmixed?
58For whither is he gone?
58He ended, and the Son of God replied:--"Think''st thou such force in bread?
58His mother, than, is mortal, but his Sire He who obtains the monarchy of Heaven; And what will He not do to advance his Son?
58How wilt thou reason with them, how refute Their idolisms, traditions, paradoxes?
58I mention still Him whom thy wrongs, with saintly patience borne, Made famous in a land and times obscure; Who names not now with honour patient Job?
58I shall, thou say''st, expel A brutish monster: what if I withal Expel a Devil who first made him such?
58If I, then, to the worst that can be haste, Why move thy feet so slow to what is best?
58If given, by whom but by the King of kings, God over all supreme?
58If nature need not, Or God support nature without repast, 250 Though needing, what praise is it to endure?
58Owe not all creatures, by just right, to thee Duty and service, nor to stay till bid, But tender all their power?
58Poor Socrates,( who next more memorable?)
58Rein then; what canst thou better do the while?"
58Shall I seek glory, then, as vain men seek, Oft not deserved?
58Such was the splendour; and the Tempter now His invitation earnestly renewed:--"What doubts the Son of God to sit and eat?
58This wounds me most( what can it less?)
58To honour?
58To whom thus Jesus temperately replied:--"Said''st thou not that to all things I had right?
58To whom thus Jesus:--"What conclud''st thou hence?
58What but thy malice moved thee to misdeem Of righteous Job, then cruelly to afflict him With all inflictions?
58What doubt''st thou, Son of God?
58What followers, what retinue canst thou gain, Or at thy heels the dizzy multitude, 420 Longer than thou canst feed them on thy cost?
58What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies, Outlandish flatteries?
58What moves thy inquisition?
58What raised Antipater the Edomite, And his son Herod placed on Juda''s throne, Thy throne, but gold, that got him puissant friends?
58What wise and valiant man would seek to free These, thus degenerate, by themselves enslaved, Or could of inward slaves make outward free?
58What woman will you find, Though of this age the wonder and the fame, On whom his leisure will voutsafe an eye 210 Of fond desire?
58Which way, or from what hope, dost thou aspire To greatness?
58Why art thou Solicitous?
58Why dost thou, then, suggest to me distrust Knowing who I am, as I know who thou art?"
58Why should I?
58Wilt thou impute to obedience what thy fear Extorts, or pleasure to do ill excites?
58all oracles 430 By thee are given, and what confessed more true Among the nations?
58what accident Hath rapt him from us?
58what but dark, Ambiguous, and with double sense deluding, Which they who asked have seldom understood, And, not well understood, as good not known?
58whence authority deriv''st?
58will he now retire 40 After appearance, and again prolong Our expectation?
14019Am I known to wreck of the threats of men? 14019 And after that whom sawest thou there?"
14019And after that whom sawest thou there?
14019And after that whom sawest thou there?
14019And after that whom sawest thou?
14019And after that whom sawest thou?
14019And after that, whom sawest thou there?
14019And after that, whom sawest thou there?
14019And after that, whom sawest thou there?
14019And after that, whom sawest thou there?
14019And after that, whom sawest thou there?
14019And after that, whom sawest thou there?
14019And afterwards whom sawest thou there?
14019And afterwards whom sawest thou?
14019And whom sawest thou afterwards?
14019And whom sawest thou afterwards?
14019And whom sawest thou then?
14019And whom sawest thou there after that?
14019Canst thou say, O Fer rogain, what that great light yonder resembles?
14019Hast thou his like, O Fer rogain?
14019Hast thou then news of Dá Derga''s Hostel?
14019Hostages will you?
14019How is that, O Ingcél?
14019Is thy lord alive?
14019King Marsil was ever my deadly foe, And of all these words, so fair in show, How may I the fulfilment know?
14019Liken thou that, O Conaire,says every one:"what is this noise?"
14019Lords, my barons, survey this land, See the passes so straight and steep: To whom shall I trust the rear to keep?
14019Miscreant, makest thou then so free, As, right or wrong, to lay hold on me? 14019 Not till Roland breathes no more, For from hence to eastern shore, Where is chief with him may vie?
14019Query, whence art thou and whence hast thou come?
14019Question, hast thou seen the house well, O Ingcél?
14019Question, what sawest thou in the champion''s high seat of the house, facing the King, on the opposite side?
14019Say, sire, what grief doth your heart oppress?
14019Thou madman,thus he to Roland cried,"What may this rage against me betide?
14019Well, O woman,says Conaire,"if thou art a wizard, what seest thou for us?"
14019Well, then,says Ingcél to the guides,"what is nearest to us here?"
14019What are the waters and heights and invers that they traverse?
14019What dost thou desire?
14019What is his name?
14019What is that?
14019What is this?
14019What is thy wife''s name?
14019What seest thou here?
14019What then deemest thou,says Ingcél,"of that man''s reign in the land of Erin?"
14019Where is my Roland, sire,she cried,"Who vowed to take me for his bride?"
14019Which be they?
14019Whither shall we betake ourselves?
14019Who gives the welcome?
14019Who is it that fares before us?
14019Who will go on shore to listen? 14019 Who will go there to espy the house?"
14019***** Liken thou that, O Fer rogain?
14019A dimple of delight in each of her cheeks, with a dappling(?)
14019All his wars in many lands, All the strokes of trenchant brands, All the kings despoiled and slain,-- When will he from war refrain?"
14019And after that whom sawest thou?"
14019And after that whom sawest thou?"
14019And after that whom sawest thou?"
14019And after that, whom sawest thou there?"
14019And afterwards whom sawest thou there?"
14019And on all possessions of men would seize; But in whom doth he trust for feats like these?"
14019And whom sawest thou afterwards?"
14019And whom sawest thou there afterwards?"
14019Apulia-- Calabria-- all subdued, Unto England crossed he the salt sea rude, Won for Saint Peter his tribute fee; But what in our marches maketh he?"
14019As the Franks the other ten descry,"What dark disaster,"they said,"is nigh?
14019CCXV"Dear Roland, and was this thy fate?
14019CLI"Ah, why on me doth thine anger fall?"
14019CLXIII But what availeth?
14019CXLII Count Roland Olivier bespake:"Sir comrade, dost thou my thought partake?
14019Have I struck thee, brother?
14019Have you, then, forgotten Roland''s pride, Which I marvel God should so long abide, How he captured Noples without your hest?
14019He would sound all day for a single hare:''Tis a jest with him and his fellows there; For who would battle against him dare?
14019Hostages asks he?
14019Is it time to fight with a truncheon now?
14019Karl the Mighty may weep and wail; What skilleth sorrow, if succour fail?
14019LII Then did the king on his treasurer call,"My gifts for Karl, are they ready all?"
14019On him the choice for the rear- guard fell, And where is baron could speed so well?
14019Ride onward-- wherefore this chill delay?
14019Roland marvelled at such a blow, And thus bespake him soft and low:"Hast thou done it, my comrade, wittingly?
14019Roland who loves thee so dear, am I, Thou hast no quarrel with me to seek?"
14019Speak, my brother, thy counsel lend,-- How unto Karl shall we tidings send?"
14019Steel and iron such strife may claim; Where is thy sword, Hauteclere by name, With its crystal pommel and golden guard?"
14019The king asked tidings of her and said, while announcing himself:"Shall I have an hour of dalliance with thee?"
14019Then said Conaire on the Road of Cualu:"whither shall we go tonight?"
14019Thick calf- bottoms( ankles?)
14019To head my vanguard, who then were best?"
14019To sorrow sorrow must succeed; My hosts to battle who shall lead, When the mighty captain is overthrown?''
14019Were he hurt in fight, who would then survive?
14019What doom shall now our peers betide?"
14019What is thy name, O woman?"
14019What sawest thou there after that?"
14019What then?
14019Where art thou?
14019Who are yon, O Fer rogain?"
14019Who has chanted that lay?"
14019Who will follow them and tell them to come towards me in my track?"
14019Why tell the rest?
14019XLV"Speak, then, and tell me, Sir Ganelon, How may Roland to death be done?"
14019XLVII What said they more?
14019XVII"Lords my barons, who then were best In Saragossa to do our hest?"
14019XVIII"Lords my barons, whom send we, then, To Saragossa, the Saracen den?"
14019XXVI The Emperor reached him his right- hand glove; Gan for his office had scanty love; As he bent him forward, it fell to ground:"God, what is this?"
14019XXVII"Sire,"he said,"let me wend my way; Since go I must, what boots delay?"
14019deem''st thou, dastard, of dastard race, That I shall drop the glove in place, As in sight of Karl thou didst the mace?"
14019he cried in pain:"The Archbishop where, and Olivier, Gerein and his brother in arms, Gerier?
14019said Roland,"is this the end Of all thy prowess, my gentle friend?
14019said Roland,"what makest thou?
14019says Conaire,"what is this?"
8072''What art thou, horrid form that rid''st the air? 8072 Ah, mother, why dost thou thus trifle with me?
8072Am I not alive?
8072Art thou divine, or human?
8072Barons,said Carle,"whom shall I leave in charge of these deep defiles and narrow passes?"
8072But what shall I call thee, maiden? 8072 Can it be Heaven,"said Nisus then,"That lends such warmth to hearts of men, Or passion surging past control That plays the god to each one''s soul?
8072Comrade, where is thy sword, thy Halteclere?
8072Comrades,he cried,"do you remember our promises to our king?
8072Euryalus, my chiefest care, Where left I you, unhappy? 8072 Hast thou seen my sister?"
8072How can it gain dominion, and keep it when gained? 8072 How shall I approach the chief?"
8072My lords, whom shall we send to meet Marsile at Saragossa?
8072Not one except yourselves knoweth my secret; Ye, my affectionate and faithful servants, What remedy can ye now devise for my ease? 8072 Shalt thou escape, decked out with Pallas''s spoils?
8072Should I receive as a gift from thee what I myself could command if I so desired? 8072 Sir, how came you hither, where none who ventures alone escapes alive?
8072Think''st thou not I recognized thee? 8072 Thinkest thou we need to fear with two such allies?"
8072Was the blow meant for me, my comrade?
8072What boot our gifts, King Etzel? 8072 What can save us?"
8072What hast thou to do with my hunger?
8072What is mundane glory?
8072What men be ye who hither come?
8072What violence or what chance led thee so wide From Campaldino,I of him inquired,"That''s still unknown thy burial- place retired?"
8072What,thought he,"can he mean?
8072When hope is gone, what is there left to fear? 8072 Where is Roland, my betrothed?"
8072Who has dared move my bed?
8072Why not sit and eat?
8072Why sank I not in ocean,( was her cry),"When first I reared my sail upon the main?"
8072Why shouldst thou weep, sister dear? 8072 Why stoppest thou here?"
8072Would you, Thrones and Imperial Powers,he cried,"think to build up a kingdom here, secure from the arm of Heaven?
8072Yet what can wealth do without these?
8072''Has one weak reign so corrupted you?''
8072''Have you so soon forgotten our brave sires?
8072''Who art thou?''
8072******* Loud o''er the din of battle stout Gernot shouted then,"How now, right noble Rüdeger?
8072--Who is there, that has power to tell aright The gentle Isabella''s doleful mood?
8072A goddess, a nymph?
8072Alas?
8072Alike, all wretched they, as I-- ah, whose this triple deed of blood?
8072Am I mad that I should voluntarily leave my pleasant home and dare the terrors of an unknown sea?
8072And if I haste to the worst that can be, why shouldest thou go so slowly to the best?
8072And what slighter recompense could he expect from men who could return nothing else?"
8072And whither hath not the fame of Troy penetrated?
8072And who the herb, the wholesome root, or wild fruit from the wood shall bring?
8072At the lone midnight had I come to draw the river''s limpid flood, And here am struck to death, by whom?
8072But seek, I pray thee, some way to thy presence; For what converse can we hold, I on the ground, and thou on the terrace?"
8072But what avails?
8072But what canst thou, a lowly carpenter''s son, accomplish without aid?
8072But where were Draupadi and the gallant princes, her husbands?
8072But wherefore thus of guiltlessness debate?
8072But who can deceive a lover?
8072By this, thy fatal shaft, this one, three miserable victims fall, The sire, the mother, and the son-- ah why?
8072Came they not with the rest From pleasant Lacedaemon to the war?
8072Can Truth''s own light thy loveliness outshine?
8072Does not our love restrain thee, and the thought that I shall surely die when thou art gone?
8072Dost thou grant this?"
8072Doubtless he takes his sport now with his peers; And who''neath Heav''n would dare attack Rollánd?
8072Father, what ails thee, say?''
8072For who the herbs will now supply,--the roots, the fruit, their blameless food?''
8072Had I only been created a lower Power!--But even then, might not some higher one have led me into temptation?
8072Hath Yudhi- sthira vanquished self, to melt With one pure passion at the door of bliss?
8072Have you lost all reverence for your father, That whom his own parent cast from his bosom, Him will you receive into yours?
8072He answers brief:"Your pleas are naught: Firm stands the purpose of my thought: Come, stir we: why so slow?"
8072He longed to escape, but how leave the unhappy Dido?
8072How lull the guards, or by what process speed The sacred Image from its vaulted cell?
8072How then hath the revelation come down upon him?
8072How through the open door you rushed, across the court- yard flew; How sprawling in your terror on the wine- press beam you lay?
8072In jest or earnest, say, Have I offended you?
8072In these my babes shalt thou thine image see, And, still tremendous, hurl thy rage on me?
8072Is it not a rank injustice that you should be forbidden to taste it and to lack the Knowledge of Good and Evil which it would give you?
8072Is this then the Zal, the nursling of a bird?
8072Is to die so wretched a thing?
8072Let soul and body perish now; life why should I prolong, Conquered and captive at the hands of such an ill- breeched throng?"
8072Must friend with friend do battle, nor heaven the conflict part?"
8072My Cid lay sleeping when you saw the unchained lion near; What did you do, Ferrando, then, in your agony of fear?
8072My truth-- my God- giv''n innocence-- must they be both forgot?
8072Nay, sire, ride on apace; Why do you halt?
8072Or have ye chosen this place After the toil of battle to repose Your wearied virtue, for the ease you find To slumber here, as in the vales of Heaven?
8072Or hear''st thou rather pure Ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell?
8072Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed?
8072Or, having crossed the deep in their goodships, Shun they to fight among the valiant ones Of Greece, because of my reproach and shame?"
8072Our Trojan comrades, one and all, Cry loud, Aeneas to recall, And where, they say, the men to go And let him of our peril know?
8072Plunge through the spears that line the wood, And death and glory win with blood?
8072Rollánd asked Olivier--"Why show to me Your anger, friend?"
8072Say, with thyself who else his ill- timed zeal allied?"
8072Shall I look on, and let you go Alone to venture''mid the foe?
8072Since the Savior seemed to prefer a contemplative life, why should he not seek that seat of learning?
8072Stay''st thou for this, who did not stay for them,-- Draupadi, Bhima?"
8072Suppose I reject both riches and realms?
8072That sightless pair, for many a day, from me their scanty food have earned; What lot is theirs when I''m away, to the five elements returned?
8072The evening prayer, th''ablution done, the fire adored with worship meet, Who now shall soothe like thee, my son, with fondling hand, my aged feet?
8072The mother''s word was law, but would the gods permit them to share Draupadi?
8072The oak- tree must be felled if the land was to prosper, but who could fell it?
8072The soul can never cease to be; who then can destroy it?
8072The spoil-- who could count it?
8072The youth returns, while thirst of praise Infects him with a strange amaze:"Can Nisus aim at heights so great, Nor take his friend to share his fate?
8072Then Sâvitrî spake sadly:"It is taught Thy messengers are sent to fetch the dying; Why is it, Mightiest, thou art come thyself?"
8072They wept, and spoke my little Anselm:''Pray Why lookest so?
8072This hound hath ate with me, Followed me, loved me; must I leave him now?"
8072This is the condition; Wilt thou fall down and worship me as thy superior lord?"
8072This the old man, white- haired and withered?
8072Thou knowest who I am as I know who thou art; why shouldest thou suggest distrust to me?"
8072Thou knowest; make us know, why hath she failed?"
8072Thus spake she to Rüdeger,"How have we ever yet"Deserv''d that you, good Rüdeger, should make our anguish more?
8072Thy blind old mother, heaven- resigned, within our hermit- dwelling lone, How shall I tend, myself as blind, now all my strength of life is gone?
8072To this the tyrant, now incensed, returned,"Where rests the Image?"
8072To us the blind, the destitute, with helpless hunger perishing?
8072Volscens cries,"Whence come, or whither tend?"
8072Was it for thee to slay thy father''s son?
8072Was it for this he heaped gifts upon us?
8072Was it for this he stirred us up to glorious deeds?
8072Were my eye dazzled by a star, How could it rejoice to gaze even upon the moon?
8072What clue may guide my erring tread This leafy labyrinth back to thread?"
8072What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
8072What of it?
8072What promise will ye give me?
8072What return can we make, then, but to think out some slow but sure and sweet revenge?
8072What shall I do, whither shall I fly, to escape infinite wrath, and infinite despair?
8072What should he do?
8072What talk is this about my Cid-- him of Bivar, I mean?
8072What thanks does the victor in countless battles gain?
8072What will ye do for me?
8072When have we found aught but treachery in the Saracen?
8072When we the fourth day''s agony did receive Stretched at my feet himself my Gaddo threw, And said:''My father, canst thou nothing do?''
8072Whence falleth he?"
8072Whence the harp''s enchanting arches?
8072Whence the necessary harp- pins?
8072Whence the sweetly singing harp- strings?
8072Where can the offence lie?
8072Where wilt thou find authority, where followers?
8072Wherefore falter I, Who strove to stand?"
8072Who are ye?"
8072Who could have guessed the power of the Almighty?
8072Who gave thee the kingdoms of the earth if He did not?
8072Who in Heaven is willing to make the sacrifice?"
8072Who now,''neath the dark wood by night, a pious reader shall be heard?
8072Whose honeyed voice my ear delight with th''holy Veda''s living word?
8072Why did you carry with you brides ye loved not, treacherous curs?
8072Why doth she fail?
8072Why have ye laid my heartstrings bare?
8072Why may not I clasp thy loved hands and exchange true words with thee?"
8072Why regret that thou hast at last forgotten Sichaeus?
8072Why tear their flesh in Corpes wood with saddle- girths and spurs, And leave them to the beasts of prey?
8072Why the long way thou hast begun, without one gentle word to me?
8072Will you not silent keep that mouth where truth was never found?
8072Wouldst thou behold the mild radiance of the moon?
8072Wouldst thou inhale delightful odors?
8072Yet why repine?
8072You are a craven at the core; tall, handsome, as you stand: How dare you talk as now you talk, you tongue without a hand?
8072ah whose this wrongful deed of blood?
8072and oh, what crime has won This death?
8072asked her tempter,"and have I not eaten of it?
8072can it be That one exalted should seem pitiless?
8072cried Rustem;"what hast thou done?
8072didst thou think to escape from me?
8072is death so dear, Or am I so ill able to sustain A mortal''s wrath, that thou must needs appear?
8072she inquired,"hunting the boar, wrapped in a spotted lynx hide, her quiver at her back?"
8072the lion scare have you forgotten too?
8072was it, my lord, for this We gave him all he asked us?
8072was the like ever seen?
8072what boots it now?
8072what cruel man is he?
8072what excuse, what answer do ye make?
8072what force employ To rescue the beloved boy?
8072what rewards so great, For worth like yours to compensate?
8072where?
8072who are ye?"
8072why art thou broke?
8072with anger art thou moved, that not a word thou wilt bestow?''