 What hadst thou to do being born, Mother, when winds were at ease, As a flower of the springtime of corn, A flower of the foam of the seas? For bitter thou wast from thy birth, Aphrodite, a mother of strife; For before thee some rest was on earth, A little...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Sida 2081865Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1925 - 778 sidor
...always setting the temporal in relation to the eternal, and man against the dark background of his fate. What hadst thou to do being born. Mother, when winds'...little respite from tears, A little pleasure of life; . . . Thou ahouldst not so have been born; But death should have risen with thee. Mother, and visible... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1884 - 724 sidor
...and is born at her birth , For they knew thee for mother of love, And knew thee not mother of death What hadst thou to do being born, Mother, when winds...springtime of corn, A flower of the foam of the seas ? KOJL bjtter ihpu wast from thy birth, • Aphrodite, a mother of strife; For "before thee some rest... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1896 - 128 sidor
...and is born at her birth ; For they knew thee for mother of love, And knew thee not mother of death. What hadst thou to do being born, Mother, when winds...the foam of the seas ? For bitter thou wast from thy birtti). Aphrodite, a mother of strife ; For before thee some rest was on earth, A little respite from... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1897 - 130 sidor
...and is born at her birth ; For they knew thee for mother of love, And knew thee not mother of death. What hadst thou to do being born, Mother, when winds...For life was not then as thou art, But as one that wazeth in years Sweet-spoken, a fruitful wife ; Earth had no thorn, and desire No sting, neither death... | |
 | Henry MacArthur - 1897 - 314 sidor
...higher forms of the passion. The chorus is based upon the old legend of the birth of Venus : — ' What hadst thou to do being born, Mother, when winds...wast from thy birth, Aphrodite, a mother of strife j For before thee some rest was on earth, A little respite from tears, A little pleasure of life ;... | |
 | Otto Luitpold Jiriczek - 1907 - 518 sidor
...and is born at her birth; For they knew thee for mother of love, And knew thee not mother of death. What hadst thou to do being born, Mother, when winds...were at ease, As a flower of the springtime of corn, For bitter thou wast from thy birth, Aphrodite, a mother of strife; For before thee some rest was on... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1922 - 618 sidor
...is born at her birth; For they knew thee for mother of love, 760 And knew thee not mother of death. What hadst thou to do being born, Mother, when winds...springtime of corn, A flower of the foam of the seas? 765 For bitter thou wast from thy birth, Aphrodite, a mother of strife; For before thee some rest was... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne, John Stewart Bryan University Professor Jerome McGann - 2004 - 532 sidor
...is born at her birth; For they knew thee for mother of love, 760 And knew thee not mother of death. What hadst thou to do being born, Mother, when winds...little respite from tears; A little pleasure of life; 770 For life was not then as thou art, But as one that waxeth in years Sweet-spoken, a fruitful wife;... | |
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