GAY GODS and MERRY MORTALS
SOME EXCURSIONS IN VERSE BY ROBERT J. SHORES
BROADWAY PUBLISHING CO. NEW YORK 1910
COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY ROBERT J. SHORES
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Gay Gods and Merry Mortals
PROEM.
[8]
ACTÆON.
“He saw her charming, but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty concealed.”
—Thomson.
[10]
ADONIS.
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PROSERPINA.
“Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluk’d, she eat; Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe That all was lost.”
—Milton.
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ANAXARETE.
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PENELOPE.
“Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
—Pope.
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SAPPHO.
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SYRINX.
“Poor nymph—poor Pan—how he did weep to find Naught but a lovely sighing of the wind Along the reedy stream; a half-heard strain, Full of sweet desolation, balmy pain.”
—Keats.
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