...exact. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Rings through the arched roof with words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. But the two cliffs of the overhanging steep, the clear stream which issues from the huge cleft that...

...: "The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving ; Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow...and dale. Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn, The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets...

...know, that although they may be "Of her sweet presence - each a satellite," their tenure is limited. From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent. ("On the Morning of Christ's Nativity") Their golden age must pass as the seasons...

...No voice or hideous hum Suns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine C?n no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. Illustrative. Spenser, Faerie Queene, 1, 2, 2; 1, 2, 29; 1, 11, 31 ; 1, 12, 2. Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel...

...Nativity": The Oracles are dum, No voice or hideous humm Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving, Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd Priest from the prophetic cell. 93 Petrarch was inclined rather to the judgment of Lucan:...

...'The oracles are dumb. , No voice or hideous hum / Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. / Apollo from his shrine ; Can no more divine. / With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving'. See further HW Parke and DEW Wormell. The Delphic Oearle ;Oxford, 1956), i. 287 ff. 514 f. Juno's patronage...

...several deities were sent wandering in cold and darkness. So Milton, in his 'Hymn on the Nativity': The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-enwoven tresses torn, The nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets...

...new prophet-poets, will draw their inspiration from Christian divinity, not from Apollo at Delphos: Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd Priest from the prophetic cell. (lines 176-80) It is a beautiful, haunting picture of loss....

...change of sensibility that occurred when the psychological power of an old world order was purged: The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore...From haunted spring, and dale Edged with poplar pale, io Prudentius, Psychomachia, 11. 28-35, ' nv °l- 3 of Prudence, ed. and trans. M. Lavarenne (Paris:...

...The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. . . . The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament. . . . In consecrated earth, And on the holy heart, The Lars and Lémures moan with midnight plaint....