Minor Poets Of The Caroline Period Shakerley Marmion The Legend Of Cupid And Psyche Sir Francis Kynaston Leoline And Sydanis

Author : Shakerley Marmion
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230380018
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Cupid and Psyche, a Legend [in Verse, Ed, by S. W. Singer] written by Shakerley Marmion and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820 edition. Excerpt: ...And like an armed fury, how she star'd; Or like a blazing comet in the air, With fire and sword, and with dishevell'd hair. She told the trouble, and epitasis, When she beheld his metamorphosis: A spectacle, that ravish"d her with joy, A serpent turn'd into a lovely boy, Whoso young, smooth face might speak him boy or maid--Cupid himself in a soft slumber laid; She told too of the drop of scalding oil That burnt his shoulder, and the heavy coil He kept, when he awak'd, cans'd by the smart; And how he chid, and how at last did part: And, for revenge, had threaten'd in her stead To make her sisters partners of his bed, And 'twixt each word she let a tear down fall, Which stopp'd her voice, and made it musical. Thus Psyche, at the last, finish'd her story, Season'd with sharp grief, and sweet oratory, Which was as long by her relation made, As might have served to stuff an Iliade. Such as./Eneas unto Dido told, Full of adventures, strange and manifold. Her sister, by her looks, great joy did show, Rcsolv'd in that, she did her husband know; And therefore heard her out with much applause, And gave great heed, but chiefly to that clause Where 'twas declar'd, that lie her pomp and state To one of her own sisters would translate. Whence gathering that herself might be his bride, She swell'd with lust, with envy, and with pride; And in this heat of passion did transcend The rock, where Zephyrus used to attend To waft her up and down, and there call'd on Him, that had now forsook his station. Yet through the vanity of hope made blind, Though then there blew a contrary wind, Invoking Cupid that he would receive Her for his spouse, she did herself bequeath Unto a fearful precipice, and threw Her body headlong down, whose weight it drew Towards the...