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60
SEMATOLOGY
exemplify impressions and images of a half literary, half
natural kind; probably they have come through the medium
of the literature of antiquity or that of the Renaissance. I
shall give some more instances of the same type.
I, 245, Iron and fire and the white body of snow . . .
III, 39, Dawn skims the sea with flying feet of gold.
IV, 15, And even with that the full-grown feet of day
Sprang upright on the quivering water-way.
An image, or a metaphor, usually consists of a
combination of a noun and an adjective, or a noun and a verb.
I shall give some examples of adjectives of the type I am
treating.
III, 317, Death’s cold sweet soundless wind . . .
321, One low long lovely loveless call . . .
IV, 95, . . . When blown foam keeps the loud air blind.
The multiplying of examples would of course be an
easy thing, but will hardly have any interest. I wish to
mention, however, that the adjectives sometimes have an
elliptical character:
I, 208, . . . Who in the glad thick streets go up and down.
[< thickly crowded].
IV, 19, And the long wrangling wars of that toad land.
[< filled with clamour].
Verbs of this category we find for instance in:
I, 63, And mix his immortality with death.
155, What gave th£e thy wisdom? What stories
That stung thee, what visions that smote?
Wert thou pure and a maiden, Dolores,
When desire took thee first by the throat?
181, ... when the fields catch flower . . .
IV, 16, Song . . . had its fill and died
And all the hearts were fed upon it sighed.
23, ... this gives his soul such bitterness to drink.
I go on to images borrowed from literature, beginning
with such as are to be traced to the language of the Bible.
I, 27, Why wilt thou eat the husk of evil speech?
Wear wisdom for that veil about thy head
And goodness for the binding of thy brows.
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