Apollonius of Rhodes - Sky Quotes

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For, lo! descending sudden from the sky,
Round the pil'd banquet shrieking harpies fly.

Apollonius of Rhodes

On Argo's keel the impetuous torrent pours,
Which rais'd the ship above the rocks so high,
She seem'd sublimely sailing in the sky.

Apollonius of Rhodes

Know, at Æeta'a court a maiden dwells
Deep skill'd by Hecate in magic spells:
All plants she knows that grow on mountains steep,
On vales, or meads, or in the boundless deep;
By these she quells the fire's relentless force,
Stops the mad torrent in its headlong course,
Retards the planets as they roll on high,
And draws the Moon reluctant from the sky.

Apollonius of Rhodes

As swains with smoke, of honey studious, strive
From some rock's cleft the swarming bees to drive;
Alarm'd and trembling, with a murmuring sound,
They crowd to all their waxen rooms around;
Put if the fumes prevail, their wings they ply,
And rove uncertain thro' the various sky.

Apollonius of Rhodes

Thus sees the clown, or thinks he can descry
The new moon breaking through a cloudy sky.

Apollonius of Rhodes