Oread : Greek nymph(s) of mountain caves & tops; close to Artemis, the huntress, with whom they play & dance.
... the cot with flowers. BAPPA Where was she when you had the script from her? CAPTAIN Singing of battle on the rocks alone With wrestling winds in her wild hair and raiment, A joyous Oread. BAPPA Said she anything? CAPTAIN She gave it me with glad and smiling eyes And laughed: "This for my noble Bheel, my sovereign Of caterans, my royal beast of prey. These to their mighty ...
... Ahana, sport in the sunbeams and shadows. Page 501 Naiad swimming through streams and Dryad fleeing through forest Wild from the clutch of the Satyr! Ahana who breakst and restorest! Oread, mountain Echo, cry to the rocks in thy running! Nymph in recess and in haunt the pursuit and the melody shunning! Giantess, cruel and false and grand! Gandharvi that singest Heavenward! bird exultant ...
... Adam and "betook her to the groves". Just as the list of places which Eden was not, and which it surpassed, began with the Enna of Ceres and Proserpin, so now the list of comparisons, beginning with Oread, Dryad, Diana's attendant and Pales and Pomona, ends with a comparison to Ceres in her prime, Yet virgin of Proserpina from Jove. 12 Nor does the clear association of Ceres and of ...
... have therefore translated "the Oreads of the hills"; these spirits of the mountains are the only image in English which can at all render the idea of beauty & vague strangeness here implied; at the same time I have used the apparently tautologous enlargement "of the hills" because it was necessary to give some idea of the distant, wild & mystic which the Greek Oreads does not in itself quite bring... like the sound on a drum the material of the concert of the Beast-Lord is to be complete there, eh?" My own translation runs Of Tripour slain in lovely dances joined And linkèd troops the Oreads of the hill Are singing and inspired with rushing wind Sweet is the noise of bamboos fluting shrill; Thou thundering in the mountain-glens with cry Of drums shouldst the sublime ...
... Olympus. Olympus: Mountain at the east end of the range forming the northern boundary of Thesasly and Greece proper. It was regarded as the home of the chief Greek gods, led by Zeus. Oreads: Nymphs of the mountains and hills. Page 121 Orpheus: A legendary pre-Homeric Thracian poet and musician, founder of the Orphic mysteries, who was able to charm even wild beasts and ...
... the beauty Brought from her heavenly climes Aphrodite mixed with Anchises. Glimpsed in the wilds were the Satyrs, seen in the woodlands the Graces, Dryad and Naiad in river and forest, Oreads haunting Glens and the mountain-glades where they played with the manes of our lions Glimmered on death-claimed eyes; for the gods then were near us and clasped us, Heaven leaned down ...
... highest God When starting from the dwarf-shape world-immense With Titan-quelling step through heaven he strode." Of Tripour slain in lovely dances joined And linked troops the Oreads of the hill Are singing and inspired with rushing wind Sweet is the noise of bamboos fluting shrill; Thou thundering in the mountain-glens with cry Of drums shouldst the sublime ...
... face of the beauty Brought from her heavenly climes Aphrodite mixed with Anchises. Glimpsed in the wilds were the Satyrs, seen in the woodlands the Graces, Dryad and Naiad in river and forest, Oreads haunting Page 445 Glens and the mountain-glades where they played with the manes of our lions Glimmered on death-claimed eyes; for the gods then were near us and clasped us, Heaven leaned ...
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