"Gaia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... where the Hesperides guard the golden apples which Gaia gave to the lady Here, dwelt the maiden Medusa, with her sisters Stheino and Euryale, in their lonely and dismal home. Between them and the land of living men flowed the gentle stream of ocean, so that only the name of the Gorgon sisters ...
— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy
... her whispered message: "Ask, Lord, and I answer thee." Strung to his task: "Tell me now all," he said, "from that far day Whenas embracing thee, I stood to pray, And poured forth wine unto the thirsty earth To Zeus and to Poseidon, in whose girth Lie sea and land; to Gaia next, their spouse, And next to Here, mistress of my house, Traitress, and thine, for grace upon my faring: For thou wert by to hear me, false arm bearing Upon my shoulder, glowing, lying cheek Next unto mine. Ay, and thou prayedst, with meek Fair seeming, prosperous send-off and return. ...
— Helen Redeemed and Other Poems • Maurice Hewlett
... Tantalon eiseidon, chalep alge echonta, Estaot en limnae hae de proseplaze geneio. Steuto de dipsaon, pieein d ouk eichen elesthai. Ossaki gar kupsei ho geron pieein meneainon, Tossach hudor apolesket anabrochen. amphi de possi Gaia melaina phaneske katazaenaske de daimon, Dendrea d hupsipeteala katakoeathen chee kaopon Onchnai, kai roiai, kai maeleai aglaokarpoi, Sukai te glukeoai, kai elaiai taelethoosai. Ton opot ithusei o geoon epi cheosi masasthai, Tasd anemos ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, In Nine Volumes - Volume the Third: The Rambler, Vol. II • Samuel Johnson |
