...deceiving. Apollo from his shrine, Can no more divine With hollow shriek the sleep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. He feels from Judah's land The dreadful Infant's hand. The rmya of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyne....

...of man's primitive consciousness of forces that lie beyond his control: The lonely mountains o're, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring, and dale Edg'd with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent, With flowre-inwov'n tresses torn The...

...classical gods who haunt the "lonely mountains" and the "resounding shore": The lonely mountains o're, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring, and dale Edg'd with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent, With flowre-inwov'n tresses torn The...

...deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. (lines 173-80) This is a plangent but strongly ironic account of Christ's birth displacing the superstitious...

...know, that although they may be "Of her sweet presence - each a satellite," their tenure is limited. From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent. ("On the Morning of Christ's Nativity") Their golden age must pass as the seasons of the year, and...

...deceiving. Apollo from his shrine C?n no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. Illustrative. Spenser, Faerie Queene, 1, 2, 2; 1, 2, 29; 1, 11, 31 ; 1, 12, 2. Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel...

...several deities were sent wandering in cold and darkness. So Milton, in his 'Hymn on the Nativity': The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-enwoven tresses torn, The nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. ERISICHTHON Erisichthon...

...change of sensibility that occurred when the psychological power of an old world order was purged: The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore...From haunted spring, and dale Edged with poplar pale, io Prudentius, Psychomachia, 11. 28-35, ' nv °l- 3 of Prudence, ed. and trans. M. Lavarenne (Paris:...

...lines like 'And the yellow-skirted fays / Fly after the night-steeds, leaving their moon-loved maze' or 'With flower-inwoven tresses torn / The nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.' Nevertheless, other lines suggest that the young author, consciously or subconsciously, regarded his...

...The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. . . . The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament. . . . In consecrated earth, And on the holy heart, The Lars and Lémures moan with midnight plaint....