Posts Tagged ‘orphic’

Orphic Hymn to Juno

O Royal Juno of majestic mien,Aerial-form’d, divine, Jove’s blessed queen,Thron’d in the bosom of cærulean air,The race of mortals is thy constant care.The cooling gales thy pow’r alone inspires,Which nourish life, which ev’ry life desires.Mother of clouds and winds, from thee aloneProducing all things, mortal life is known:All natures share thy temp’rament divine,And universal sway […]

Orphic Hymn to Apollo

BLEST Pæan, come, propitious to my pray’r,Illustrious pow’r, whom Memphian tribes revere,Slayer of Tityus, and the God of health,Lycorian Phœbus, fruitful source of wealth.Spermatic, golden-lyr’d, the field from theeReceives it’s constant, rich fertility.Titanic, Grunian, Smynthian, thee I sing,Python-destroying, hallow’d, Delphian king:Rural, light-bearer, and the Muse’s head,Noble and lovely, arm’d with arrows dread:Far-darting, Bacchian, two-fold, and […]

Orphic Hymn to Night

NIGHT, parent goddess, source of sweet repose,From whom at first both Gods and men arose,Hear, blessed Venus, deck’d with starry light,In sleep’s deep silence dwelling Ebon night!Dreams and soft case attend thy dusky train,Pleas’d with the length’ned gloom and feaftful strain.Dissolving anxious care, the friend of Mirth,With darkling coursers riding round the earth.Goddess of phantoms […]

Orphic Hymn to Sleep

SLEEP, king of Gods, and men of mortal birth,Sov’reign of all sustain’d by mother Earth;For thy dominion is supreme alone,O’er all extended, and by all things known.‘Tis thine all bodies with benignant mindIn other bands than those of brass to bind:Tamer of cares, to weary toil repose,From whom sweet solace in affliction flows.Thy pleasing, gentle […]

Orphic Hymn to the Stars

WITH holy voice I call the stars on high,Pure sacred lights and genii of the sky.Celestial stars, the progeny of Night,In whirling circles beaming far your light,Refulgent rays around the heav’ns ye throw,Eternal fires, the source of all below.With flames significant of Fate ye shine,And aptly rule for men a path divine.In seven bright zones […]

Orphic Hymn to the Divinity of Dreams

THEE I invoke, blest pow’r of dreams divine,Angel of future fates, swift wings are thine:Great source of oracles to human kind,When stealing soft, and whisp’ring to the mind,Thro’ sleep’s sweet silence and the gloom of night,Thy pow’r awakes th’ intellectual fight;To silent souls the will of heav’n relates,And silently reveals their future fates.For ever friendly […]

Orphic Hymn to Health

The Orphic Hymns are a set of pre-classical poetic compositions, attributed to the culture hero Orpheus, himself the subject of a renowned myth. In reality, these poems were probably composed by several different poets. Translated by Thomas Taylor [1792] O Much-desir’d, prolific, gen’ral queen,Hear me, life-bearing, Health, of beauteous mien,Mother of all; by thee diseases […]

Orphic Hymn to the Earth

From The Hymns of OrpheusTranslated by Thomas Taylor [1792] O Goddess, Earth, of Gods and men the source,Endu’d with fertile, all destroying force;All-parent, bounding, whose prolific pow’rs,Produce a store of beauteous fruits and flow’rs,All-various maid, th’ eternal world’s strong baseImmortal, blessed, crown’d with ev’ry grace;From whose wide womb, as from an endless root,Fruits, many-form’d, mature […]

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