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Clytemnestra, the Earl's Return, the Artist, and Other Poems (Paperback)
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Clytemnestra, the Earl's Return, the Artist, and Other Poems (Paperback)
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.
Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book
(without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.
1855. Excerpt: ... 'Now I am the strongest least.' Sad the woman
been wiser when she was queen The lion had never been Icing, I
ween. But ever since storms began to lower Beauty on earth hath
been second to Power." And this is the song that the Minstrel sung,
"With the silver hair and the golden tongue, Who sung by night in
the grim Earl's hall. And they held him in reverence one and all.
xxvm. And so she died--the pale-faced girl. And, for nine days
after that, the Earl Fumed and fret, and raved and swore, Pacing up
and down the chamber-floor, And tearing his black beard as be went
In the fit of his sullen discontent. And tbe Seneschal said it was
fearful to hear him; And not even the weather-worn Warden went near
him; And the shock-headed Pages huddled ancar, And bit their white
lips till they bled, for fear. XXIX. But at last he bade them lift
her lightly, And bury her by the gray sea shore, Where the winds
that blew from her own land nightly Might wail round her grave
thro' the wild rocks hoar. So they lifted her lightly at dead of
night, And bore her down by the long torch-light--Lank-hair'd
faces, sallow and keen, That burn'd out of the glassy pools between
The splashing sands which, as they plunged thro', The coffin-lead
weigh'd them down into; And their feet, as they pluck'd them up,
left pits Which the water ooz'd into and out of by fits----And so
to the deep-mouth'd bay's black brim, Where the pale priests, all
white-stoled and dim, Lifted the cross and chaunted the hymn, That
hersoul mighthave peacewhenherbonesweredust, And her name be
written among the Just. The Warden walked after the Seneschal grim;
And the shock-headed Pages walk'd after him: And with mattock and
spade a grave was made, Where they carved the cross, and they wrote
her name, And, returning each...
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Imprint: |
General Books LLC
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
February 2012 |
First published: |
February 2012 |
Authors: |
Edward Robert Lytton
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Dimensions: |
246 x 189 x 3mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
64 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-151-08220-6 |
Barcode: |
9781151082206 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-151-08220-1 |
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