"Ninefold" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sphears, Once bless our human ears, (If ye have power to touch our senses so) And let your silver chime Move in melodious time; And let the Base of Heav'ns deep Organ blow And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort ...
— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy
... their hands Compassed their death, and weary-sick of light without avail Cast life away; but now how fain to bear the poor man's bale Beneath the heaven, the uttermost of weary toil to bear! But law forbiddeth: the sad wave of that unlovely mere Is changeless bond; and ninefold Styx compelleth to abide. Nor far from thence behold the meads far spread on every side, 440 The Mourning Meads—in tale have they such very name and sign. There those whom hard love ate away with cruel wasting pine Are hidden in the lonely paths with ...
— The AEneids of Virgil - Done into English Verse • Virgil |
