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| 4. "Muse, tell me of the man of many wiles the man who wandered many paths of exile" The Odyssey, Homer, Book I, Translated by Allen Mandelbaum, Page 3, New York: Bantam Books, 1990. "One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." "Ulysses", Tennyson, Lines 68-70. "Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight; sometimes" Paradise Lost, Book II, Milton, Lines 631-632. "Then the perilous path was planted, And a river and a spring" The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Argument, Blake. "'Unchallenged, while ye follow wandering fires Lost in the quagmire! Many of you, yea most," Idylls of the King, "The Holy Grail", Tennyson, Lines 319-320. "By degrees we beheld the infinite Abyss, fiery as the smoke of a burning city; beneath us, at an immense distance, was the sun, black but shining;" The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, A Memorable Fancy, Blake. "And through the drifts the snowy clifts Did send a dismal sheen: Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken- The ice was all between." The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part The First, Coleridge, Lines 55-58. "Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea." "Kubla Khan: or, A Vision in a Dream", Coleridge, Lines 4-5. "'And on I rode, and greater was my thirst. Then flashed a yellow gleam across the world,'" Idylls of the King, "The Holy Grail", Tennyson, Lines 401-402. "And they came back to the Wadi Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with a single cluster of grape leaves, and they carried it on a pole between the two of them." Numbers 13:23, The New Oxford Annotated Bible, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. "Day after say, day after day, We stuck, ne breath ne motion, As idle as a painted Ship Upon a painted ocean." The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part The Second, Coleridge, Line 111-114. "'We came to the land to which you sent us; it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. Yet the people who live in the land are strong, and the towns are fortified and very large; and besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there." Numbers 13:27, The New Oxford Annotated Bible, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. "Far off from these a slow and silent stream, Lethe the River Oblivion rolls Her wat'ry Labyrinth, whereof who drinks," Paradise Lost, Book II, Milton, Lines 582-584. "And terror in his eyes. And he made for the cave Faster than east wind and fear gave wings to his feet." The Aeneid, Vergil, Book VIII, Translated by Patric Dickinson, Page 176, New York: Mentor, 1961. "'and fatherly. And now, against his will, Calypso keeps him captive in her grotto," The Odyssey, Homer, Book V, Translated by Allen Mandelbaum, Page 95, New York: Bantam Books, 1990. Back to Poems Back to Index E-mail the Poet |
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