"Oary" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... alone, The melancholy monarch made his moan, His voice was lessened, as he tried to speak, And issued through a long extended neck; 10 His hair transforms to down, his fingers mee In skinny films, and shape his oary feet; From both his sides the wings and feathers break; And from his mouth proceeds a blunted beak: All Cycnus now into a swan was turned, Who, still remembering how his kinsman burned, To solitary pools and lakes retires, And loves the waters as opposed to fires. Meanwhile Apollo, ...
— The Poetical Works of Addison; Gay's Fables; and Somerville's Chase • Joseph Addison, John Gay, William Sommerville
... with oary feet, One stroke—away she sweeps; Over the waters pale we fleet, Suspended in the deeps. And round the sheltering rock, and lo! The tumbling, weltering sea! On to the west, away we go, ...
— A Hidden Life and Other Poems • George MacDonald |
