"Lemnian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fall! But who is he,[84] that, by yon gloomy cave, Bids heaven and earth bear witness to his woe! And hark! how hollowly the ocean-wave Echoes his plaint, and murmurs deep below! Haste, let the tall ship stem the tossing tide, That he may leave his cave, and hear no more 90 The Lemnian surges unrejoicing roar; And be great Fate through the dark world thy guide, Sad Philoctetes![85] So Instruction bland, With young-eyed Sympathy, went hand in hand O'er classic fields; and let my heart confess Its holier joy, when I essayed to climb The lonely heights where ...
— The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 • William Lisle Bowles
... Adrastus, merely that it may form a parallel to the tale of Hercules and Cacus told by Evander.[557] Worst of all is the enormous digression,[558] consuming no less than 481 lines, where Hypsipyle narrates the story of the Lemnian massacre. And yet this is hardly more than a digression in the midst of a digression. The Argive army are marching on Thebes. Bacchus, desirous to save his native town, causes a drought in the Peloponnese. The Argives, on the verge ...
— Post-Augustan Poetry - From Seneca to Juvenal • H.E. Butler |
