The Birth of the War-god: A Poem

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Trübner, 1879 - 116 Seiten
 

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Seite 99 - He, whom the mind alone can perceive, whose essence eludes the external organs, who has no visible parts, who exists from eternity, even he, the soul of all beings, whom no being can comprehend, shone forth in person. He, having willed to produce various beings from his own divine substance, first with a thought created the waters, and placed in them a productive seed...
Seite 92 - afar ! See'st thou the brightness of yon polar star ? Like that unchanging ray thy faith must shine !' Sobbing she whispered —
Seite 91 - UMA ; — from his lotus eyes Flashed out the rapture of his proud surprise, Then calm the current of his spirit lay Like the world basking in an Autumn day. They met ; and true love's momentary shame O'er the blest bridegroom and his darling came ; Eye looked to eye — but quivering as they met, Scarce dared to trust the rapturous gazing yet. In the God's hand the Priest has duly laid The radiant fingers of the Mountain- Maid, Bright, as if LOVE with his dear sprays of red Had sought that refuge...
Seite xii - Their garb, rude mantles of the birch-tree's rind, With bright red garlands was their hair entwined ; The holy Bull before his master's feet Shook the hard-frozen earth with echoing feet, And as he heard the lion's roaring swell In distant thunder from the rocky dell, In angry pride he raised his voice of fear And from the mountain drove the startled deer. Bright fire — a shape the God would sometimes wear Who takes eight various forms — was glowing there ; Then the great Deity who gives the...
Seite 93 - ... Power Who sits enthroned upon the lotus flower: " O beautiful lady, happy shalt thou be, And hero children shall be born of thee;" Then looked in silence : vain the hope to bless The bridegroom, SIvA, with more happiness. Then from the altar, as prescribed of old, They turned, and rested upon seats of gold; And, as the holy books for men ordain, Were sprinkled duly with the moistened grain. High o'er their heads sweet Beauty's Queen displayed Upon a stem of reed a cool green shade, While the...
Seite viii - Bright as a lotus, springing where she trod, Her glowing feet shed radiance o'er the sod. That arching neck, the step, the glance aside, The proud swans taught her as they stemmed the tide, Whilst of the maiden they would fondly learn Her anklets
Seite ii - mid a thousand virtues, dares to blame One shade of weakness in a hero's fame ? Oft, when the gleamings of his mountain brass Flash through the clouds and tint them as they pass, Those glories mock the hues of closing day, And heaven's bright wantons hail their hour of play; Try, ere the time, the magic of their glance, And deck their beauty for the twilight dance. Dear to the sylphs are the cool shadows thrown By dark clouds wandering round the mountain's zone, Till frightened by the storm and rain...

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