 She hath lost her lovely lord, with him she hath lost her sacred beauty. Fair was the form of Cypris, while Adonis was living, but her beauty has died with Adonis ! Woe, woe for Cypris, the mountains all are saying, and the oak-trees answer, Woe for Adonis.  Theocritus, Bion and Moschus - Page 164by Theocritus - 1880 - 200 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Early English newspapers - 1897 - 656 pages
...she is borne, lamenting her Assyrian lord, and again calling him and again. " Woe ! Woe forCypris ! " the mountains all are saying, and the oak trees answer "Woe for Adonis." And Echo cried in answer, "He hath perished, the lovely Adonis." Nay, who but would have lamented the grievous... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - Greek literature - 1890 - 938 pages
...with blood. Woe, woe for Cytherea, the Loves join in the lament ! THEOCRITUS: THE LAMENT FOR BION. ?6l She hath lost her lovely lord, with him she hath lost...for Cypris, the mountains all are saying, and the oak-trees answer, ivoc for Adonis. And the rivers bewail the sorrows of Aphrodite, and the wells are... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - English poetry - 1893 - 652 pages
...flees from his lip, and thereon the very kiss is dying, the kiss that Cypris will never forego. . . . She hath lost her lovely lord, with him she hath lost...for Cypris, the mountains all are saying. And the oak-trees answer, Woe for Adonis ! And the rivers bewail the sorrows of Aphrodite, and the wells are... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - English literature - 1893 - 608 pages
...flees from his lip, and thereon the very kiss is dying, the kiss that Cypris will never forego. . . . She hath lost her lovely lord, with him she hath lost...for Cypris, the mountains all are saying. And the oak-trees answer, Woe for Adonis! And the rivers bewail the sorrows of Aphrodite, and the wells are... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - English literature - 1893 - 638 pages
...flees from his lip, and thereon the very kiss is dying, the kiss that Cypris will never forego. . . . She hath lost her lovely lord, with him she hath lost...for Cypris, the mountains all are saying. And the oak-trees answer, Woe for Adonis! And the rivers bewail the sorrows of Aphrodite, and the wells are... | |
 | Samuel Henry Butcher - Greece - 1893 - 348 pages
...Himeras — while he was wasting like any snow under high Haemus." 2 Then comes Bion with his lament for Adonis : " Woe, woe for Cypris, the mountains all...and the wells are weeping Adonis on the mountains." 3 Moschus in turn follows with his lament for Bion : " Wail, let me hear you wail, ye woodland glades,... | |
 | Occultism - 1896 - 516 pages
...Probably for the same reason the anemone is worn as a preventive of sickness. According to Bion: f " She hath lost her lovely lord ; with him she hath...died with Adonis ! Woe, woe for Cypris, the mountains are all saying, and the oak-trees answer, Woe for Adonis." If she lost her beauty, Adonis gained by... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - English literature - 1911 - 686 pages
...flees from his lip, and thereon the very kiss is dying, the kiss that Cypris will never forego. . . . She hath lost her lovely lord, with him she hath lost...for Cypris, the mountains all are saying. And the 1 Ovid, Metam. 10, 503-559, 708-739. 2 From an elegy intended to be sung at one of the spring celebrations... | |
 | Theocritus - 1909 - 268 pages
...the dark blood leapt forth, with blood from his thighs his chest was scarlet, and beneath Adonis's breast, the spaces that afore were snow-white, were...for Cypris, the mountains all are saying, and the oak-trees answer, Woe for Adonis. And the rivers bewail the sorrows of Aphrodite, and the wells are... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - Art - 1995 - 682 pages
...flees from his lip, and thereon the very kiss is dying, the kiss that Cypris will never forego. . . . She hath lost her lovely lord, with him she hath lost...for Cypris, the mountains all are saying. And the 1 Ovid, Metam. 10, 503-559, 708-739. 2 From an elegy intended to be sung at one of the spring celebrations... | |
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