...Save Theseus, can declare : for not the flames Thick flashing from the thunders of high Jove Consuro'd him, nor the tempest from the sea Then raging wild...passage to the realms below. Here is no cause for waitings ; for he died From all the anguish of disease exempt, A man of all the human race who claims...

...Save Theseus, can declare : for not the flames Thick flashing from the thunders of high Jove Consumed him, nor the tempest from the sea Then raging wild;...friendly earth, Which in her deeply•rifted bosom open'd A painless passage to the realms below. Here is no cause for wailings; for he died From all...

...hands he spread Shading his eyes ; as if with terror struck, At something horrible to human sight. But by what fate he died no mortal man, Save Theseus,...or sinking through the friendly earth, Which in her deeply rifted bosom sped A painless passage to the realms below. (Edipus Coionus;— Sophocles?—...

...hand> he spread Shading his eyes; as if with terror struck, At something horrible to human sight. Put by what fate he died no mortal man, Save Theseus,...or sinking through the friendly earth, Which in her deeply rifted bosom sped A painless passage to the realms below. (Ediptis Colomts;—Sophocles;—Potter....

...mysterious, but the voice must have done its work, for Oedipus disappears, divine victim or suicide, "haply by the gods / Borne thence, or sinking through...bosom oped / A painless passage to the realms below." That "passage," in Wordsworth, often leads from eye to ear. Voice, by a strange law of exchange, seems...