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58
SEMATOLOGY
This we find proved once more in this very
department. Cases abound where a single verb has been
dissolved into a verbal phrase.
I, 17, For if mine eyes fail and my sou! takes breath
I look between the iron sides of death . . .
210, While 1 held journey hither out of Crete . . .
II, 17, ... the sea that makes immortal motion .. .
182, And wailed as though he had found her done to
death . . .
259, Must thou take shame or grief?
III, 9, As a hound on a wild beast’s trace
So time has their godhead in chase . . .
14, My soul makes question of the sun for thee
And waves and beams make answer . ..
IV, 22, . . . men . . . Make no great marvel . . .
24, ... the road
Wherein his soul ivos traveller . . .
A very usual expression of this kind is the Biblical
to take thought for to think (1, 59).
Reflexive verbs are also sometimes found instead of
simple ones.
I, 80, Love turned himself and would not enter in . . .
170, They bow themselves and slumber
All night till light is born . . .
In the same way archaisms like boast them (III, 192),
refraineth him (I, 232), etc.
I proceed to a survey of the images and poetical
ornaments of Swinburne’s language: some of the
peculiarities set forth there are closely connected with this
semato-logical survey. This is, for instance, the case as regards
those verbs — mix, clothe, gird, etc. — that have lost their
original pregnancy, now being used as mere cliches.
Images and poetical ornaments of Swinburne’s
language.
There are two natural sources of the images and
poetical terms of a poet, nature and literature; and nature must
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