... "So singled, may we both our courage try:" Clorinda to that motion yielded glad, And helmless to the forestward gan hie, Whither the prince right pensive wend and sad, And there the virgin gan him soon defy. One blow she strucken, and he warded had, When he cried, "Hold, and ere we prove our might, First hear thou some ... — Jerusalem Delivered • Torquato Tasso
... votary wings in heart and feet, To the third heaven that lightly he may soar, In one short day has many a stream and shore Given to me, in famed Ardennes, to meet. Unarm'd and single to have pass'd is sweet Where war in earnest strikes, nor tells before— A helmless, sail-less ship 'mid ocean's roar— My breast with dark and fearful thoughts replete; But reach'd my dangerous journey's far extreme, Remembering whence I came, and with whose wings, From too great courage conscious terror springs. But this fair country and beloved ... — The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch • Petrarch
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