The Royal Treasury of Story and song part V. The Enchanted Garden
“ Thomas Nelson and sons .co.,Ltd.
This history tells of the wanderings of Ulysses and his return from Troy, by Homer
Ulysses the wonderer By Charles Lamb.
I __the Storm.
• Boreas, the North wind; Notus, the South wind; Eurus, the East wind: Zephyrus, the West wind.
Buffeting the waves.
>………. Two days and two nights he spent in struggling with the waves, though sore buffeted and almost spent, never giving himself up for lost, such confidence he had in that charm which he wore about his middle, and in the words of that divine bird. But the third morning the winds grew calm, and all the heavens were clear.
Then he saw himself nigh land, which he knew to be the coast of the Phaeacians, a people good to strangers, and abounding in ships, by whose favor he doubted not that he should obtain a passage to his own country. And such joy he conceived to his heart, as good sons have that esteem their father’s life dear, when long sickness has held him down to his bed, and wasted his body, and as length they see health return to the old man, with restored strength and spirits, in reward of their many players to the gods for his safety.
Ulysses, as he entered the city, wondered to see its magnificence, its markets, buildings, temples; its walls and ramparts; its trade and resort of men; its harbors for shipping which is the strength of the Phaeacian state. Until when he approached the palace and beheld its riches, the proportion of its architecture, its avenues, gardens, statues, fountains, he stood rant in admiration and almost forget his own condition in surveying the flourishing estate of others; but correcting himself, he passed on boldly into the inner apartment, where the king and queen were sitting at dinner with the peers Nausicaa having prepared them for his approach.
To them, humbly kneeling he made it his request, that since fortune had cast him naked upon their shores, they would take him into their protection and grant him conveyance by one of the ships, of which their great Phaeacian state had such good store, to carry him to his own country, Having to deliver to his request, to grace it with more humility, he went and sat himself down upon the hearth among the ashes, as the custom was in those days when any man would make a petition to the throne.
He seemed a petitioner of so great a state and of so superior a deportment that Aleinous himself arose to do him honor, and this he spake to his peers,__
“ Lords and counselors of Phaeacia, ye see this man, who he is we know not, that comes to us in the guise of a petitioner. He seems no mean one; but whoever he is, it is fit, since the gods have cast him upon our protection, that we grant him the rites of hospitality while he stays with us, and at his departure a ship well managed to convey so worthy a personage as he seems to be, in a manner suitable to his rank, to his own country.”
This counsel the peers with one consent approved; and wine and meat being sat before Ulysses, he ate and drunk, and gave the gods thanks who had stirred up the royal bounty of Alienous to aid him in that extremity. But not as you did he reveal to the king and queen who he was, or whence he had come; only in brief terms he related his being cast upon their shores, his sleep in the woods, and his meeting with the Princess Nausicaa; whose generosity, mingled with secretion, filled her parents with delight, as Ulysses in eloquent phrases adorned and commended her virtues.
But Alcinous humanely considering that the troubles which his guest had undergone required rest, as well as refreshment by food, dismissed him early in the evening to his chamber ; wherein a magnificent apartment Ulysses found a smoother bed, but not a sounder repose, than he had enjoyed the night before, when he slept upon leaves which he had scraped together in his necessity. Lord Tennyson...........................................................
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Neptune, ret
turning from visiting his favorite Ethiopians described Ulysses plowing the waves, his domain. The sight of the man he so much hated for the sake of Polyphemus, his son, whose eye Ulysses had put out, set the god’s heart on fire; and snatching into his hand his horrid sea-scepter, the trident of his power, he smote the air and the sea, and conjured up all his black storms, the billows rolling up before the fury of all the winds that contended together in their mighty sport. Then the knees of Ulysses bent with fear, and then all his spirit was spent, and he wished that he had been among the number of his countrymen who fell before Troy, and had their funerals celibrated by all the Greeks, rather than to perish thus, where no man could mourn him or know him. As the thought these melancholy thoughts, a huge wave took him and washed him overboard. Ship and all were upset amidst the bellows, he strangling afar off clinging to her stern broken off which he yet held, her mast cracking in two with the fury of the gust of mixed winds that struck it. Sails and sail-yards fell into the deep, and he himself was long immersed underwater; nor could he get his head above, wave so, met with a wave , as if they strove which should depress him most, and the gorgeous garments gave him by Calypso * clung above him, and hindered his swimming.
, The god's Ulysis last stand..... Thongs
•>………. During his wanderings, Ulysses visited the goddess Calypso in the island of Ogygia, and she offered him, immortality if he would remain with her. But he refused, wishing only to return to his wife Penelope………. At the stern of his solitary ship, Ulysses sat and steered right artfully. No sleep could seize his eyelids. He beheld the Pleiads, the Bear which is by some called the Wain, that moves around about Orion, and keep still above the ocean, and the slow-setting sign Bootes, which some name the Waggoner, Seventeen days he held his course, and on the eighteen the coast of Phaeacia was in sight. The figure of the land, as seen from the sea, was pretty and circular, and looked something like a shield..
Yet Neither for this, nor the overthrow of his ship, nor his own perilous condition, would he give up his drenched vessel, but, wrestling with Neptune, at length got hold of her again, and then sat in her hulk, insulting over death, which he had escaped. His ship, striving to live, floated at random, cuffed from wave to wave, hurled to and fro by all the winds; now Boreas tossed it to passed it to Eurus, and Eurus to the west wind, who kept up the horrid tennis.
II,__The Sea-Birds’s Gift.
>………. The winds in their mad sport beheld Ino Leucothea, now a sea-goddess, but once a mortal; she with pity beheld Ulysses the mark of their fierce contention, and rising from the waves alighted on the ship, in shape like to the sea-bird which is called a cormorant. In her beak, she held a wonderful girdle made of sea-weeds which grow at the bottom of the ocean, and this she dropped at his feet. Then the bird spake to Ulysses and counseled him not to trust anymore to that fatal vessel against which Neptune had leveled his furious wrath, nor to those ill-befriending garments which Calypso had given him, but to quit both, it and them, and trust for his safety to swimming.
>………. “ And here,” said the seeming bird, “ take the girdle and tie about your middle. For it has virtue to protect the wearer at sea, and you shall safely reach the shore; but when you have landed cast it far from you back into the sea.”
He did as the sea-bird instructed him; he stripped himself and fastening the wondrous girdle about his middle.
Cast himself into the sea to swim. Then the bird dives past his sight into the fathomless abyss of the ocean.
“ Thomas Nelson and sons .co.,Ltd.
This history tells of the wanderings of Ulysses and his return from Troy, by Homer
Ulysses the wonderer By Charles Lamb.
I __the Storm.
• Boreas, the North wind; Notus, the South wind; Eurus, the East wind: Zephyrus, the West wind.
Buffeting the waves.
>………. Two days and two nights he spent in struggling with the waves, though sore buffeted and almost spent, never giving himself up for lost, such confidence he had in that charm which he wore about his middle, and in the words of that divine bird. But the third morning the winds grew calm, and all the heavens were clear.
Then he saw himself nigh land, which he knew to be the coast of the Phaeacians, a people good to strangers, and abounding in ships, by whose favor he doubted not that he should obtain a passage to his own country. And such joy he conceived to his heart, as good sons have that esteem their father’s life dear, when long sickness has held him down to his bed, and wasted his body, and as length they see health return to the old man, with restored strength and spirits, in reward of their many players to the gods for his safety.
Ulysses, as he entered the city, wondered to see its magnificence, its markets, buildings, temples; its walls and ramparts; its trade and resort of men; its harbors for shipping which is the strength of the Phaeacian state. Until when he approached the palace and beheld its riches, the proportion of its architecture, its avenues, gardens, statues, fountains, he stood rant in admiration and almost forget his own condition in surveying the flourishing estate of others; but correcting himself, he passed on boldly into the inner apartment, where the king and queen were sitting at dinner with the peers Nausicaa having prepared them for his approach.
To them, humbly kneeling he made it his request, that since fortune had cast him naked upon their shores, they would take him into their protection and grant him conveyance by one of the ships, of which their great Phaeacian state had such good store, to carry him to his own country, Having to deliver to his request, to grace it with more humility, he went and sat himself down upon the hearth among the ashes, as the custom was in those days when any man would make a petition to the throne.
He seemed a petitioner of so great a state and of so superior a deportment that Aleinous himself arose to do him honor, and this he spake to his peers,__
“ Lords and counselors of Phaeacia, ye see this man, who he is we know not, that comes to us in the guise of a petitioner. He seems no mean one; but whoever he is, it is fit, since the gods have cast him upon our protection, that we grant him the rites of hospitality while he stays with us, and at his departure a ship well managed to convey so worthy a personage as he seems to be, in a manner suitable to his rank, to his own country.”
This counsel the peers with one consent approved; and wine and meat being sat before Ulysses, he ate and drunk, and gave the gods thanks who had stirred up the royal bounty of Alienous to aid him in that extremity. But not as you did he reveal to the king and queen who he was, or whence he had come; only in brief terms he related his being cast upon their shores, his sleep in the woods, and his meeting with the Princess Nausicaa; whose generosity, mingled with secretion, filled her parents with delight, as Ulysses in eloquent phrases adorned and commended her virtues.
But Alcinous humanely considering that the troubles which his guest had undergone required rest, as well as refreshment by food, dismissed him early in the evening to his chamber ; wherein a magnificent apartment Ulysses found a smoother bed, but not a sounder repose, than he had enjoyed the night before, when he slept upon leaves which he had scraped together in his necessity. Lord Tennyson...........................................................
..links to Literature Network » Lord Alfred Tennyson » Ulysses
..... Edited by Shelleyxus.
Neptune, retturning from visiting his favorite Ethiopians described Ulysses plowing the waves, his domain. The sight of the man he so much hated for the sake of Polyphemus, his son, whose eye Ulysses had put out, set the god’s heart on fire; and snatching into his hand his horrid sea-scepter, the trident of his power, he smote the air and the sea, and conjured up all his black storms, the billows rolling up before the fury of all the winds that contended together in their mighty sport. Then the knees of Ulysses bent with fear, and then all his spirit was spent, and he wished that he had been among the number of his countrymen who fell before Troy, and had their funerals celibrated by all the Greeks, rather than to perish thus, where no man could mourn him or know him. As the thought these melancholy thoughts, a huge wave took him and washed him overboard. Ship and all were upset amidst the bellows, he strangling afar off clinging to her stern broken off which he yet held, her mast cracking in two with the fury of the gust of mixed winds that struck it. Sails and sail-yards fell into the deep, and he himself was long immersed underwater; nor could he get his head above, wave so, met with a wave , as if they strove which should depress him most, and the gorgeous garments gave him by Calypso * clung above him, and hindered his swimming.
, The god's Ulysis last stand..... Thongs
•>………. During his wanderings, Ulysses visited the goddess Calypso in the island of Ogygia, and she offered him, immortality if he would remain with her. But he refused, wishing only to return to his wife Penelope………. At the stern of his solitary ship, Ulysses sat and steered right artfully. No sleep could seize his eyelids. He beheld the Pleiads, the Bear which is by some called the Wain, that moves around about Orion, and keep still above the ocean, and the slow-setting sign Bootes, which some name the Waggoner, Seventeen days he held his course, and on the eighteen the coast of Phaeacia was in sight. The figure of the land, as seen from the sea, was pretty and circular, and looked something like a shield..
Yet Neither for this, nor the overthrow of his ship, nor his own perilous condition, would he give up his drenched vessel, but, wrestling with Neptune, at length got hold of her again, and then sat in her hulk, insulting over death, which he had escaped. His ship, striving to live, floated at random, cuffed from wave to wave, hurled to and fro by all the winds; now Boreas tossed it to passed it to Eurus, and Eurus to the west wind, who kept up the horrid tennis. II,__The Sea-Birds’s Gift.
>………. The winds in their mad sport beheld Ino Leucothea, now a sea-goddess, but once a mortal; she with pity beheld Ulysses the mark of their fierce contention, and rising from the waves alighted on the ship, in shape like to the sea-bird which is called a cormorant. In her beak, she held a wonderful girdle made of sea-weeds which grow at the bottom of the ocean, and this she dropped at his feet. Then the bird spake to Ulysses and counseled him not to trust anymore to that fatal vessel against which Neptune had leveled his furious wrath, nor to those ill-befriending garments which Calypso had given him, but to quit both, it and them, and trust for his safety to swimming.
>………. “ And here,” said the seeming bird, “ take the girdle and tie about your middle. For it has virtue to protect the wearer at sea, and you shall safely reach the shore; but when you have landed cast it far from you back into the sea.”
He did as the sea-bird instructed him; he stripped himself and fastening the wondrous girdle about his middle.
Cast himself into the sea to swim. Then the bird dives past his sight into the fathomless abyss of the ocean.
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