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VOCABULARY
324, Too high for heart of sea-borne bird or boy . . .
328, As some beleaguered city’s war-breached wall . . .
330, And wondrous as no world-beholden wonder . . .
All the last four examples are quoted from the «Songs
of the Springtides* (four others have been given above:
III, 295, 321, 338, 348):
IV, 9, . . . the sister-shed
Sweet tears for Phaethon disorbed and dead . . .
13, To the wind-hollowed heights and gusty bays
Of sheer Tintagel . . .
28, . . . the moon holds hardly light
Above them through the sick and star-crossed night . . .
53, Her slumberous love-dishevelled hair ...
116, ... sheer above the wild wolf-haunted stream . . .
177, . . . hurled back like a leaf
Storm-shrivelled . . .
190, As waves wind-thwarted on the sea . . .
225, . . . like a rain-bruised reed.
All these are found in the epic poems. —
IV, 358, ... the tempest-rifted sea ...
406. . . . and now dead
They bring thee back by war-forsaken ways.
From «Erechtheus >: three given before (IV, 362,370,379).
V, 14, Rose fire-encircled as a burning brand . . .
246, . . . iron forged its blood-encrusted band . . .
316, Brome, gipsy-led across the highland ferns . . .
VI, 50, When the heart of the darkness is hunger-starven . . .
52, The small court flower-lit with children’s faces . . .
154, ... this heaven-enfranchised one . . .
212, As a tide-reconquered sea-rock . . .
Undoubtedly some of these cases also show a
remarkable analogy of sounds with their surrounding words.
Take for instance such lines as II, 236, 261; III, 33, 302,
324, 328, 330; IV, 9, 28, 406; and the metrical motive will
be clearly perceptible here, too. —
Sometimes these formations show a poetical
abbreviation of some kind or other, which may be elliptical, as in
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