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................................................................... 89 To the Moon. ........................................................................ ...................................................... 104 To the Rising Full Moon. ........................................................................ ...e’er the sun his beams O’er ocean flings; I think of thee, whene’er the moonlight gleams In silv’ry springs. I see thee, when upon the distant ri... ...e night! For then thou o’ershadow’st the lustre, Dazzling and fair, of the moon. Dazzling and beauteous art thou, And flowers, and moon, and the plane... ... broke, And glared with hundred gloomy eyes. From out a hill of clouds the moon With mournful gaze began to peer: The winds their soft wings flutter’d... ...the lover Hotly and nimbly, ere long, plunged in the night-cover’ d flood. Rhea Silvia, virgin princess, roam’ d near the Tiber, Seeking there water t...

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...OCRATES: My notion would be something of this sort:— I suspect that the sun, moon, earth, stars, and heaven, which are still the Gods of many barbaria... ...who know nothing can affirm. Next in order after Hestia we ought to consider Rhea and Cronos, although the name of Cronos has been already discussed. ... ...itus repeating wise traditions of antiquity as old as the days of Cronos and Rhea, and of which Homer also spoke. HERMOGENES: How do you mean? SOCRATE... ...l, then, how can we avoid inferring that he who gave the names of Cronos and Rhea to the an cestors of the Gods, agreed pretty much in the doctrine o... ...means, Socrates. But why should we not discuss another kind of Gods—the sun, moon, stars, earth, aether, air, fire, water, the seasons, and the year? ... ...ions of the earth. Cratylus – Plato 41 HERMOGENES: But what is selene (the moon)? SOCRATES: That name is rather unfortunate for Anaxagoras. HERMOGEN... ...w so? SOCRATES: The word seems to forestall his recent dis covery, that the moon receives her light from the sun. HERMOGENES: Why do you say so? SOCR... ... have much the same meaning? HERMOGENES: Yes. SOCRATES: This light about the moon is always new ( neon) and always old ( enon), if the disciples of An...

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...er deadly strife were separated each from other; and how the stars and the moon and the paths of the sun ever keep their fixed place in the sky; and h... ...ugh strength of arm one yielded his prerogative to Cronos and the other to Rhea, and how they fell into the waves of Ocean; but the other two meanwhil... ...eir roots deepest. And near it they heaped an altar of small stones, and * Rhea. The Argonautica 38 wreathed their brows with oak leaves and paid hee... ...rief for their king. Hence from that time forward the Phrygians propitiate Rhea with the wheel and the drum. And the gracious goddess, I ween, in cli... ...ast in honour of the goddess on the Mount of Bears, singing the praises of Rhea most venerable; but at dawn the winds had ceased and they rowed away f... ...se at hand with the rosy flush of his beauty and sweet grace. For the full moon beaming from the sky smote him. And Cypris made her heart faint, and i... ...retan cave by the Curetes of Ida, lay beside Philyra, when he had deceived Rhea; and the goddess found them in the midst of their dalliance; and Crono... ... as they rush roaring on, and checks the stars and the paths of the sacred moon. Of her we bethought us as we came hither along the path from the pala... ... and her soul fluttered with quivering fear. And the Titanian goddess, the moon, rising from a far land, beheld her as she fled distraught, and fierce...

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...inquisitive, as though I were a child inquiring what had become of the old moons. In 1790 Mademoiselle Laguerre, alarmed at the turn of public affairs... ... Six avenues branched away from it, their place of meeting forming a half- moon. In the centre of the semi-circular space stood an obe- lisk surmounte... ...s of Navarre and on the other those of the Countess de Moret. Another half-moon, on the side to- ward the river, communicated with the first by a stra... ... one.” Courtecuisse, a small man about forty-six years of age, with a full-moon face, found his greatest happiness in doing noth- ing. He expected to ... ...their abode in the pavilion, this happy home was the scene of a long honey-moon in harmony with Na- 146 Sons of the Soil ture and with the art whose ... ...hen might be free of all fear, And return to the good days of Saturn and Rhea. 219 Balzac These fine verses were published in a first and only edi-...

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...es, which gave great satisfaction, and by singing the Eiresione at the New Moon festivals, he earned a subsistence, visiting the houses of the rich, w... ...etters bound, 109 And lodged in brazen dungeons underground, Full thirteen moons imprison’d roar’d in vain; Otus and Ephialtes held the chain: Perhaps... ...at in order round, And beaming fires illumined all the ground. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, 158 O’er heaven’s pure azure spreads her sac... ... grown, Amazed he stood, with terrors not his own. O’er his broad back his moony shield he threw, And, glaring round, by tardy steps withdrew. Thus th... ...e Locrian squadrons nor the javelin wield, Nor bear the helm, nor lift the moony shield; But skill’d from far the flying shaft to wing, Or whirl the s... ...or of his train, am I. Three brother deities from Saturn came, And ancient Rhea, earth’s immortal dame: Assign’d by lot, our triple rule we know; Infe...

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...rever to live a single and maiden life. This lady some call Ilia, oth- ers Rhea, and others Silvia; however, not long after, she was, contrary to the ... ...y had no sort of knowledge of the inequality in the motions of the sun and moon; they only kept to the one rule that the whole course of the year cont... ...ference between the lunar and the solar’ year at eleven days, for that the moon com- pleted her anniversary course in three hundred and fifty- four da... ...himself, at Delphi. Observing the irregularity of the months, and that the moon does not always rise and set with the sun, but often in the same day o... ...w, attributing that part of it which was before the conjunction to the old moon, and the rest to the new, he being the first, it seems, that under- st... ...nd and the beginning of the month, and the following day he called the new moon. After the 153 Plutarch’s Lives twentieth he did not count by additio...

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...and many a watchfire did they kindle. As when the stars shine clear, and the moon is bright—there is not a breath of air, not a peak nor glade nor jut... ... against me, who am of like honour with himself. We were three brothers whom Rhea bore to Saturn—Jove, myself, and Hades who rules the world below. He... ...e a flaming fire; it seemed as though it had gone hard even with the sun and moon, for they were hidden over all that part where the bravest heroes we... ... cunning hand enrich it. He wrought the earth, the heavens, and the sea; the moon also at her full and the untiring sun, with all the signs that glori... ...up the shield so great and strong that shone afar with a splendour as of the moon. As the light seen by sailors from out at sea, when men have lit a f... ...he foremost horse quite plainly—a chestnut with a round white star, like the moon, on its forehead. He stood up and said among the Argives, “My friend...

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...res burned in multitude. Even as when in heaven the stars about the bright moon shine clear to see, when the air is windless, and all the peaks appear... ..., who reared me well and nourished me in their halls, having taken me from Rhea, when far seeing Zeus imprisoned Kronos beneath the earth and the unvi... ... as it had been fire, nor wouldst thou have thought there was still sun or moon, for over all the battle where the chiefs stood around the slain son o... ...e the earth, and the heavens, and the sea, and the unwearying sun, and the moon waxing to the full, and the signs every one wherewith the heavens are ... ...took the great and strong shield, and its brightness shone afar off as the moon’s. Or as when over the sea there appeareth to sailors the brightness o... ... of Homer him, but in the forehead marked with a white star round like the moon. And he stood upright and spoke among the Argives: “Friends, chiefs, a...

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..., and he was carefully and decently educated by his mother, whose name was Rhea, and whom he appears to have extremely loved and honored. He paid some... ...them immediately. Neither was the night so very dark, but that, though the moon was going down, it yet gave light enough to discern a body. And in- de... ... disadvantage to the king’s army. For the Romans coming upon them with the moon on their backs, the moon, being very low, and just upon setting, cast ... ...beginning of the feast of Mysteries at Athens, there was an eclipse of the moon, the eleventh night after which, the two armies being now in view of o... ...oise of streams, and who now warned them not to engage before the next new moon appeared. Caesar having had intimation of this, and seeing the Germans... ...d the light which broke into the room, and sat up in his bed, where by the moonshine he perceived Calpurnia fast asleep, but heard her utter in her dr...

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...S HYMN TO CASTOR AND POLLUX .................................................................................................. 26 HOMER?S HYMN TO THE MOON ....................................................................................................................... 26 HOMER?S HYMN TO THE SUN ............................................................................

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...................................................... 26 HOMER’S HYMN TO THE MOON ......................................................................... .................................................................. 214 TO THE MOONBEAM ..................................................................... ... 2. 2. 2. Now, when the joy of Jove had its fulfilling, And Heaven’s tenth moon chronicled her relief, _10 She gave to light a babe all bab... ...d the same evening did he steal away Apollo’s herds;—the fourth day of the moon _20 On which him bore the venerable May, From... ...st Wakened the world to work, and from her cell Sea-strewn, the Pallantean Moon sublime Into her watch-tower just began to climb. ... ...Concealed him from his spouse and sister fair, Whom to wise Saturn ancient Rhea bare. _40 but in return, In Venus Jove d...

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..., I resolved, let what would ensue, to force a passage, if I could, to the moon. Now, lest I should be supposed more of a madman than I actually am, I... ...spirit, beyond the 40 Poe in Five V olumes confines of the possible. “The moon’s actual distance from the earth was the first thing to be attended to... ...ean or average interval. But it must be borne in mind that the form of the moon’s orbit being an ellipse of eccentricity amounting to no less than 0.0... ...ing situated in its focus, if I could, in any manner, contrive to meet the moon, as it were, in its perigee, the above mentioned distance would be mat... ...d have to deduct the radius of the earth, say 4,000, and the radius of the moon, say 1080, in all 5,080, leaving an ac- tual interval to be traversed,... ...y. Mr. L. speaks about Sir John Herschel’s perceiving flowers (the Papaver rheas, etc.), and even detect- ing the color and the shape of the eyes of s...

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...und, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the Moon, whose Orb Through Optic Glass the TUSCAN Artist views At Ev’ning fr... ..., Queen of Heav’n, with crescent Horns; To whose bright Image nightly by the Moon SIDONIAN Virgins paid their Vows and Songs, In SION also not unsung,... ..., and birthright seis’d By younger SATURN, he from mightier JOVE His own and RHEA’S Son like measure found; So JOVE usurping reign’d: these first in C... ...ooks through the Horizontal misty Air Shorn of his Beams, or from behind the Moon In dim Eclips disastrous twilight sheds On half the Nations, and wit... ...r Fountain fome belated Peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while over head the Moon Sits Arbitress, and neerer to the Earth Wheels her pale course, they... ...he smell of infant blood, to dance With LAPLAND Witches, while the labouring Moon Eclipses at thir charms. The other shape, If shape it might be call... ...LIBYAN JOVE, Hid AMALTHEA and her Florid Son Young BACCHUS from his Stepdame RHEA’S eye; Nor where ABASSIN Kings thir issue Guard, Mount AMARA, though...

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...85 Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the Moon, whose Orb Through Optic Glass the TUSCAN Artist views At Ev’nin... ...Queen of Heav’n, with crescent Horns; To whose bright Image nightly by the Moon 440 SIDONIAN Virgins paid their Vows and Songs, In SION also not ... ...d birthright seis’d By younger SATURN, he from mightier JOVE His own and RHEA’S Son like measure found; So JOVE usurping reign’d: these first in... ...through the Horizontal misty Air 595 Shorn of his Beams, or from behind the Moon In dim Eclips disastrous twilight sheds On half the Nations, and... ...Fountain fome belated Peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while over head the Moon Sits Arbitress, and neerer to the Earth 785 Wheels her pale cours... ... smell of infant blood, to dance With LAPLAND Witches, while the labouring Moon 665 Eclipses at thir charms. The other shape, If shape it might b... ...AN JOVE, Hid AMALTHEA and her Florid Son Young BACCHUS from his Stepdame RHEA’S eye; Nor where ABASSIN Kings thir issue Guard, 280 Mount AMARA,...

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...iver of good gifts, shall not be shamed. She is my mother and the changing moons Oedipus the Kin Sophocles 45 My brethren, and with them I wax and ... ...the nurse and foster-mother of our Oedipus shall greet Ere tomorrow s full moon rises, and exalt thee as is meet. Dance and song shall hymn thy praise... ...pus at Colonus Sophocles 105 Earth, the great Ocean-king Whom Rhea bore. (Str. 2) Fight they or now prepare To fight? a vision ... ...ortal power can quell? Not sleep that lays all else beneath its spell, Nor moons that never tier: untouched by Time, Throned in the dazzling ligh...

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...which the human race keep such a coil! Not all the gold, that is beneath the moon, Or ever hath been, of these toil worn souls Might purchase rest for... ...aves and streams, Deserted now like a forbidden thing. It was the spot which Rhea, Saturn’s spouse, Chose for the secret cradle of her son; And better... ...ier. They each one ey’d us, as at eventide One eyes another under a new moon, And toward us sharpen’d their sight as keen, As an old tailor at hi... ...emisphere, touching the wave Beneath the towers of Seville. Yesternight The moon was round. Thou mayst remember well: For she good service did thee i... ...maul me sore.” Their captain then to Farfarello turning, Who roll’d his moony eyes in act to strike, Rebuk’d him thus: “Off! cursed bird! Avaunt... ...se not. Five times re illum’d, as oft Vanish’d the light from underneath the moon Since the deep way we enter’d, when from far Appear’d a mountain dim...

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... Earth was the sphere of elemental fire. Around this was the Heaven of the Moon, and encircling this, in order, were the Heavens of Mercury, Venus, th... ...e the stream 2 In Limbo, neither in Hell nor Heaven. 3 The heaven of the moon, nearest to the earth. 4 The Virgin. 21 Dante whereof the sea hath n... ...for which the human race so scramble; for all the gold that is beneath the moon, or that ever was, of these weary souls could not make a single one re... ... with leaves, which is called Ida; now it is desert, like a thing outworn. Rhea chose it of old for the trusty cradle of her little son, and to concea... ... was looking at us, as at eve one is wont to look at another under the new moon, and they so sharpened their brows toward us as the old tailor does on... ...heres, and touches the wave below Seville. And already yesternight was the moon round; well shouldst thou remember it, for it did thee no 9 The Count...

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...which the human race keep such a coil! Not all the gold, that is beneath the moon, Or ever hath been, of these toil worn souls Might purchase rest for... ...aves and streams, Deserted now like a forbidden thing. It was the spot which Rhea, Saturn’s spouse, Chose for the secret cradle of her son; And better... ...ier. They each one ey’d us, as at eventide One eyes another under a new moon, And toward us sharpen’d their sight as keen, As an old tailor at hi... ...emisphere, touching the wave Beneath the towers of Seville. Yesternight The moon was round. Thou mayst remember well: For she good service did thee i... ...maul me sore.” Their captain then to Farfarello turning, Who roll’d his moony eyes in act to strike, Rebuk’d him thus: “Off! cursed bird! Avaunt... ...se not. Five times re illum’d, as oft Vanish’d the light from underneath the moon Since the deep way we enter’d, when from far Appear’d a mountain dim...

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...e, and sung what ancient Atlas taught: The various labors of the wand’ring moon, And whence proceed th’ eclipses of the sun; Th’ original of men and b... ...side engage, For valor one renown’d, and one for age. Dymas and Hypanis by moonlight knew My motions and my mien, and to my party drew; With young Cor... ...fer’d to the sight; For not one star was kindled in the sky, Nor could the moon her borrow’d light supply; For misty clouds involv’d the firmament, Th... ...; For misty clouds involv’d the firmament, The stars were muffled, and the moon was pent. “Scarce had the rising sun the day reveal’d, Scarce had his ... ...ike him, with mighty strides, they stalk from steep to steep And now three moons their sharpen’d horns renew, Since thus, in woods and wilds, obscure ... ...ow’ry banks they fed. Then on Mount Aventine the son of Jove The priestess Rhea found, and forc’d to love. For arms, his men long piles and jav’lins b...

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...children, swallows each one of them as they are born, until Zeus, saved by Rhea, grows up and overcomes Cronos in some struggle which is not described... ...e waxing, the mid-month, and the waning, which answer to the phases of the moon. (42) i.e. the ant. (43) Such seems to be the meaning here, though the... ...eep- swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis and Mnemosyne and gold- crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys. Afte... ... subject in love to Hyperion and bare great Helius (Sun) and clear Selene (Moon) and Eos (Dawn) who shines upon all that are on earth and upon the dea... ... she is a nurse of the young, and these are her honours. (ll. 453-491) But Rhea was subject in love to Cronos and bare splendid children, Hestia (18),... ...k, but watched and swallowed down his children: and unceasing grief seized Rhea. But when she was about to bear Zeus, the father of gods and men, then... ... great Zeus, the youngest of her children. Him did vast Earth receive from Rhea in wide Crete to nourish and to bring up. Thither came Earth carrying ... ...n Hippotades in the palace, and comely Thero who was like the beams of the moon. And Thero lay in the em- brace of Apollo and bare horse-taming Chaero... ... of gold, enriched with all manner of needlework, which shimmered like the moon over her tender breasts, a marvel to see. Also she wore twisted brooch...

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... has undergone a similar meta- morphosis. He has been credited with a full moon of a face, the rubicund nose of an incorrigible toper, and thick coars... ... fair cornucopia, or horn of abundance, such as you see in antiques, or as Rhea gave to the two nymphs, Amalthea and Ida, the nurses of Jupiter. And, ... ...r pains—l’ancholie (which is the flower colombine) for melancholy—a waning moon or crescent, to show the increasing or rising of one’s fortune—a bench... ...his host. He would beat the bushes without catching the birds, thought the moon was made of green cheese, and that bladders are lanterns. Out of one s... ...t one ripe between two green. By rob- bing Peter he paid Paul, he kept the moon from the wolves, and hoped to catch larks if ever the heavens should f... ...t scientia. Then did he read to him the compost for knowing the age of the moon, the sea- sons of the year, and tides of the sea, on which he spent si... ...eneca foretold it of me, and Lactantius hath confirmed it—what the goddess Rhea did to Athis. I would make him two stone lighter, rid him of his Cypri...

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...ich the human race each other buffet; For all the gold that is beneath the moon, Or ever has been, of these weary souls Could never make a single ... ...th leaves, which was called Ida; Now ’tis deserted, as a thing worn out. Rhea once chose it for the faithful cradle Of her own son; and to conceal... ...d at us, as at evening we are wont 57 Dante To eye each other under a new moon, And so towards us sharpened they their brows As an old tailor at ... ...Seville Touches the ocean-wave, Cain and the thorns, And yesternight the moon was round already; Thou shouldst remember well it did not harm thee ... ...mes rekindled and as many quenched Had been the splendour underneath the moon, Since we had entered into the deep pass, When there appeared to us ... ... thou believest, That two-and-twenty miles the valley winds, And now the moon is underneath our feet; Henceforth the time allotted us is brief, ...

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...cury , V enus) he made to move with equal swiftness, and the remaining four (Moon, Saturn, Mars, Jupiter) to move with unequal swiftness to the three ... ...e. Such was the mind and thought of God in the creation of time. The sun and moon and five other stars, which are called the planets, were created by ... ...f the other was revolving,—in seven orbits seven stars. First, there was the moon in the orbit nearest the earth, and next the sun, in the second orbi... ...he one most intelligent revolu tion. And the month is accomplished when the moon has completed her orbit and overtaken the sun, and the year when the... ...e children of Earth and Heaven, and from these sprang Phorcys and Cronos and Rhea, and all that generation; and from Cronos and Rhea sprang Zeus and H... ...in any of them, the creator sowed some of them in the earth, and some in the moon, and some in the other instruments of time; and when he had sown the...

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...me of the drawings of the Hottentot habitations in Southern Africa. As the moon rose early, we determined to start the same evening for our sleeping-p... ... desert waste of marshes and lagoons. The scene by the dimmed light of the moon was most desolate. A few fireflies flitted by us; and the solitary sni... ...beds of marble. On the fine plains of turf we saw many ostriches (Struthio rhea). Some of the flocks contained as many as twenty or thirty birds. Thes... ...remarked, with surprise, that they were very little less than those of the Rhea, but of a slightly different form, and with a tinge of pale blue. This... ...anner of the northern kind. In conclusion I may observe, that the Struthio rhea inhabits the coun- try of La Plata as far as a little south of the Rio... ...that a vast level plain would have possessed. October 1st. - We started by moonlight and arrived at the Rio Tercero by sunrise. The river is also call... ... feast-days; and again, nothing can succeed with- out it be begun when the moon is on the increase; so that half the month is lost from these two caus... ...only gave out a few sparks. The appearance resembled the reflection of the moon, or some luminous body; for the edges were sinuous from the undulation...