Zephyr : Greek god of the westerly winds. He is a gentle bringer of peace.
... What poems? I am not writing any, except occasionally my long epic (Savitri) which cannot see the light of day in an embryonic state. "The zephyr from an inscrutable height Blowing like strains of a lyre..." Zephyr from an inscrutable height? The zephyr is a sweet little romantic wind incapable of heights. With difficulty I have avoided moon, stars, etc., but in one place I have put "sun" ...
... bird That matches its cool note with Thea's stream. Boon Zephyr now with waist ungirdled runs And you, O luminous nurslings, wider blow, O nurslings of light rain and vernal suns, Page 189 When bounteous winds about the garden go. Apt to my soul art thou, blithe honeyed moon, O lovely mother of the rose-red June. Zephyr that all things soothes, enhances all, Dwells with thee softly... inviting call And dewy buds upon the blossoming lawn. But ah, today some happy soft unrest Aspires and pants in my unquiet breast, As if some light were from the day withdrawn, As if the flitting Zephyr knew a lovelier word Than it had spoken yet, and flower and bird Kept still some grace that yet is left to bloom, Had still a note I never yet have heard, That, blossoming, would the wide air more ...
... bright hours, chase the night from her flowers, And lead the young day to her arms. And when the gay rover seeks Eve for her lover, And sinks to her balmy repose, I wrap the soft rest by the zephyr-fanned west, In curtains of amber and rose. From my sentinel steep by the night-brooded deep I gaze with unslumbering eye, When the cynosure star of the mariner Is blotted out from ...
... a common expression. Always to employ "quoth", for instance, instead of "said" or "spoke" is false Poetic Diction. In the eighteenth century many poets could not refer to the breeze except as the "zephyr". A girl could not be termed a girl: she had to be a "nymph". Woman had to be called "the fair". Sheep were "the fleecy care". Fish as human food entered poetry only as "the finny prey". And, as for ...
... the fallen and the deluded, and heals them with its balm of love; while it passes by the arrogant great, and lets the unrepentant stew in their own juice. It comes like gentle dew a soft breath of zephyr on a sultry day, or a gleam of light in the midst of a forlorn darkness. It comes also sometimes like a cyclone or an earthquake, sweeping or upheaving the soul of man. Its frowns are as much a blessing ...
... soul I came To share thy kingdom and thy joys; entirely I came, to take the evil also with thee. CEPHEUS Is there no truth in our high-winging ideals? My rule was mild as spring, kind as the zephyr: It tempered justice with benevolence And offered pardon to the rebel and sinner; I showed mercy, the rare sign of gods and kings. In this too difficult world, this too brief life To serve the ...
... Alaciel's lamp, the beacon of my bliss, O kindle quickly at the moon thy rays. How happy art thou being near my love! For thou who hast the perfume of her breath, Why shouldest thou the spice-lipped Zephyr want? Her dove's-feet whispering in the happy grass Are surely lovelier to thee than the dawn; Or wilt thou woo the world-embracing orb, Who hast the splendour of her eyes to soothe Thy slumber ...
... in the afternoon. So one Aurobindo more or less can make no difference to me. It is you who will rejoice or suffer according as he falls on you like a ton of bricks or envelops you like a soothing zephyr in the spring. "But look at the irony of human decisions and human hopes. My father who wanted all his sons to be great men — and succeeded in a small way with three of them — a sudden ...
... shame and cascades spring forth on the driest rock. And the dash of your sunbeams slays misty uncertainties and their anklets of joy ring in the dust of the stormwinds. The voice of your fragrant zephyr rouses the sleeping verdure in the subterranean arbour of the soul. Page 371 And impregnated with the lotus-pollens of your message the heart breaks forth into immaculate buds of whispering ...
... in the afternoon. So one Aurobindo more or less can make no difference to me. It is you who will rejoice or suffer — according as he falls on you like a ton of bricks or envelops you like a soothing zephyr in the spring. "But look at the irony of human decisions and human hopes. My father who wanted all his [four] sons to be great men - and succeeded in a small way with three of them - in a sudden ...
... fired with thy heavenly mission, Row on burning row. Thou hast blown thy Spirits miracle-breath On their ivory seeds: Now they blossom in the valley of death, Dawn-winged dewy beads. When thy zephyr from some luminous deep Flows with rings of light, Their soft tresses in dream-woven sleep Murmur in the night. And some cadenced footfalls wandering they hear In the silver mist, Snow-foamed ...
... Bankim Chandra Chatterji How hast thou lost, O month of honey and flowers, The voice that was thy soul! Creative showers, The cuckoo's daylong cry and moan of bees, Zephyrs and streams and softly-blossoming trees And murmuring laughter and heart-easing tears And tender thoughts and great and the compeers Of lily and jasmine and melodious birds, All these thy children ...
... as Balgopal, A Wonder-Child of Immortality, Resplendent like the sun and sweet like moon, A miracle of glory and harmony, Incredible and, withal, more real and vivid Than fires that burn and zephyrs that entrance, Skies that beckon and stars that foster dream ... ( Her voice grows husky as she rushes on ) The Supernal Child of love and loveliness Whose touch transforms life into a festival ...
... much at an emergency. BRIGIDA True, for such long parts must be a heavy tax on the quickest. Page 839 BASIL There are but two such, Venus-Helen and Paris. The rest are only a Zephyr's dance in, a speech and a song to help the situation and out again with a scurry. BRIGIDA God be with you. You have a learned conversation and a sober, and for such I will always report you ...
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