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VOCABULARY
II, 168, Italia; this thing missed his eyes;
The old mother-might, the breast, the face . . .
169, The sacred shadow of thy pain,
Thine the true maiden-mother, slain
And raised again.
36, At whose most holy breast
Four times a godlike soldier-saviour hung . . .
III, 94, O mother-month, where have they hidden thee?
316, Like that pale princess-priest of Priam’s blood . . .
IV, 43, Not as that white queen’s of the virgin hunt
Once, whose crown-crescent . . .
V, 272, If childhood were not in the world,
But only men and women grown;
No baby-locks in tendrils curled,
No baby-blossoms blown . . .
275, More sweet than spring triumphant hears
Ring through the revel-rout of May . . .
2S6, For gifts above all others,
What guerdon-gift may be?
The alliteration is specially striking in some of the
above cases (III, 316, V, 272). - On the whole, then, I
believe that no inconsiderable influence must be ascribed
to the aim at word-music, although, of course most
formations depend on the usual motive of freshness and
con-creteness.
As may be seen by the instances already quoted,
mother plays an important role in formations of this class.
Besides the above examples we may mention:
III, 273, The Witch-Mother; the title of a poem; and
IV, 330, Thou too, the bitter mother and mother-plague
Of this my weary body.
Some other striking compounds are the following.
II, 25, Make yourselves wings, O tarrying feet of fate,
And hidden hour that hast our hope to bear,
A child-god, through the morning-coloured gate . . .
18, The golden-headed worm
Made headless for a term
The king-snake . . . [cf. VI, 130 man-snake]
169, [Me] Thou madest a choral-souled boy-priest.
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