Canto

  1     1|           guide~In his own land, 'mid friends and kindred arms,~
  2     1|       roll,~Breast-high, from the mid river rose upright,~The
  3     1|         fawn of fallow deer,~Who, mid the shelter of its native
  4     1|        heat.~She from her saddle 'mid spring flowers descends~
  5     1|          his horse to meet him in mid space,~With hate and fury
  6     2|       Stirred up the waves; and, 'mid the gathering gloom,~So
  7     2|           is my weary steed,~Who 'mid these rocks has wasted wind
  8     3|         II~Than whose fair line, 'mid those by heavenly grace~
  9     3|           lash the beach.~I pass, mid towns and towers, a countless
 10     3|    Spaniard know, to his dismay,~'Mid the same bounds, whom papal
 11     3|      struggle through the slain,~'Mid crowded fields, which scarce
 12     3|         And caracol and gallop in mid sky,~He bears a mortal shield
 13     4|        And execute on earth or in mid air,~All shifts of manege,
 14     4|           conquering hand; but in mid space,~When she beholds
 15     4|       upward springs.~And through mid ether soars a fairer flight~
 16     6|           lighted on the ground,~'Mid cultivated plain, delicious
 17     7|           for that dread game:~In mid career she laid her lance
 18     7|       open sight.~Thence, through mid visage, does the nose descend,~
 19     7|           appointed for his rest,~Mid all the others chosen as
 20     7|   Bradamant forget: who evermore,~Mid toilsome pain and care,
 21     7|         ways, transported through~Mid air, the damsel saw, nor
 22     7|         booth, or rent,~And this, mid foot or horsemen, unespied,~
 23     8|           O wretched maids! whom 'mid that barbarous rout~Ill-fortune
 24     8|          with the deities,~Me, in mid heaven had placed, which,
 25     8|        Orlando it appeared as he,~Mid odorous flowers, upon a
 26     9|          for my sire.~ ~ XXXVII~" Mid many in my father's service,
 27    10|        had~More than the others, 'mid the foremost placed,~Conspicuous
 28    10|          his feathered courser in mid sky;~And oft were fain to
 29    10|        And gallops with Rogero in mid seat,~While on the croup
 30    11|        Although a feeble rein, in mid career,~Will oft suffice
 31    11|           without a purpose are.~'Mid sack and fire, the wasted
 32    12|          unseen.~ ~ XXXVII~In the mid wood, where they the maid
 33    12|          where, sorely wounded in mid breast,~Between two dead
 34    12|          s monarch, who was said~'Mid Africans to be a perfect
 35    12|          the right.~ ~ XCI~In the mid cave, beside a fire was
 36    13|         lands came many a knight;~Mid these (was it his manifest
 37    13|            That I was doomed not 'mid the watery roar~To perish,
 38    13|        XXXVII~A spacious table in mid cavern stood,~Two palms
 39    13|           lived in fear.~One day, mid others that her woeful case~
 40    14|     Succeeded next. I think not, 'mid that show,~The bannered
 41    14|           tell.~He wound his way 'mid corpses, where the wave,~
 42    14|           With steel and tinder, 'mid the paynims go,~And fire
 43    14|      delays.~ ~ CXVII~'Tis thus, 'mid fire and ruin, all assay~
 44    14|       with water and with weeds,~'Mid fire and stone, and arbalests,
 45    15|     monarch wait~King Bambirago, 'mid his knights of price,~And
 46    15| Well-armed and tried; and others 'mid their files,~Naked, and
 47    15|           the course begun~By the mid land, extending wide before:~
 48    15|           Hernando Cortez bring, 'mid these,~New cities under
 49    15|         snowy beard descending to mid breast;~Who when from far
 50    15|           he slays.~ ~ XLIV~"He, 'mid the cruel horrors he intends,~
 51    15|         but instructs not where,~'Mid locks so thickly set, to
 52    15|           the duke the sword; he 'mid a rain~Of strokes would
 53    16|            in time to spy,~(Where mid those squadrons hottest
 54    16|          the doleful sight~Than, 'mid those thousands slain, for
 55    16|          front, eyes, visage, and mid bosom through,~And cast
 56    17|         And smote and thundered, 'mid a fearful shower,~At the
 57    17|        consumed in doleful wise,~'Mid tears and groans, with death
 58    17|            we~Our devious course 'mid threatening waves explore;~
 59    17|        Then, wet and weary, land 'mid verdant hills,~Between well-shaded
 60    17|        our pavilions pitch, and, 'mid those groves,~Joyfully strain
 61    17|      slain.~` "Twas no small joy 'mid all the woes, that.'~To
 62    17|            XCVII~Bold Salinterno, mid the warlike train,~Was in
 63    17|        steel --~This had its lord mid thousand others chose;~And,
 64    18|        Two nimble Gryphon seizes, mid the train,~When to their
 65    18|        not find a resting place: 'mid groan~And sob he storms,
 66    18|      Morocco, and Zamor.~"Where, 'mid the paynims," might to me
 67    18|            So that they met not, 'mid that chivalry,~And kept
 68    18|           is the wretch, but not 'mid grass and flower,~Whose
 69    18|     wishful child more joyfully, 'mid all~The flowers of spring-tide,
 70    18|      beauteous and adorned, than 'mid the tread~Of warlike steeds,
 71    18|           bound on that emprize, 'mid all the train,~Was there
 72    18|   encampment from surprise,~When 'mid the equal intervals, at
 73    18|         extinguished everywhere.~'Mid carriages and arms, they
 74    18|   Cloridane~Where, in the field, 'mid bow and falchion, lay,~And
 75    19|        known,~Disarmed, on foot, 'mid many horse, alone.~ ~ VI~
 76    19|         casts away his bow, and, 'mid the band~Of foemen, whirls
 77    19|      Marphisa, erst so confident 'mid harms,~Denied not but that
 78    19|          and cleft (before~He the mid square had won) his collar
 79    21|           errant cavalier,~Who in mid pathway met the crone and
 80    21|        the cavaliers~To hurtle in mid space with rested spears.~ ~
 81    21|      ground,~To serve Heraclius, 'mid his knights arrayed,~Who
 82    22|     single love content;~Though, 'mid so many and many, it is
 83    22|      puissant warriors shocked in mid career.~That of Rogero,
 84    22|          gone.~Foremost appeared 'mid those three knights of pride,~
 85    22|         main,~By this astounded, 'mid the sea-foam lay;~Which
 86    22|           that livelong day~They 'mid themselves but that strange
 87    23|           night should catch him 'mid those mountains rude,~And
 88    23|        the funeral bier~Arrives, 'mid torch and flambeau, where
 89    23|           made by thy good hand,~'Mid Tremisena's and Noritia'
 90    23|        thou didst not show,~And, 'mid a hundred, wert concealed
 91    23|       flood his troubled breast.~'Mid sob and groan, he tosses
 92    24|      narrow circle flinch.~ ~ CII~Mid thousand blows, so, with
 93    25|         falcon from the sky~Swoop mid the crowd, and one surprise
 94    25|           bent~On love of female, mid mankind or herd.~Woman to
 95    26|          gear.~On the other side, mid faulchion, spear, and bow,~
 96    26|         one,~And by the other, in mid visage, through~His bleeding
 97    26|      their swarms for mischief in mid air, --~The greedy swallow
 98    26|          prowess should be shown,~Mid that vile herd, on sinew,
 99    26|         silk and ore --~-- They, 'mid more costly things in plenty
100    26|     Typheus seems to keep below.~'Mid those combined, to lay the
101    26|     surnamed of Monferrato, view~'Mid those that have the hideous
102    26|          and fine carpets prest,~'Mid shrubs, by which the limpid
103    26|        horse inclined;~Then him, 'mid grass and flowers, his comrades
104    27|          grace the sex is blest,~'Mid those so many gifts, wherewith '
105    27|           heed~That no worse evil mid these knights betide,~While
106    27|       Marphisa, whom these cries, mid others, bring,~When of the
107    27|         With helm on head, where, mid the highest rows,~Brunello
108    27|        she goes.~ ~ LXXXIX~Him by mid breast Marphisa griped amain,~
109    27|       reproach: but if there be,~'Mid hundreds, one or two of
110    27|          known,~(In that he had, 'mid strange and hostile nation,~
111    28|           was heavy; yet not one,~Mid these, in any sort, the
112    28|      LXXVI~Of sounder judgement, 'mid that company,~There was
113    29|           register a law intend,~'Mid those which ages change
114    29|          by chance encountered in mid road~Two youths, that wood
115    30|     steeds to the career,~And, in mid champaign, meet with such
116    31|        wear?~Were not the lover, 'mid his joys, distrest~By that
117    31|    flowers~Zephyr and Flora shed, mid April-showers.~ ~ LXXXVI~
118    32|         Gay champaign, wood, and, mid the wide expanse,~A portion
119    32|          compete,~Why cannot we, 'mid godlike gifts and clear,~
120    32|         THE LOST ISLE, which lies mid seas that roll~Their restless
121    32|      stage's curtain is uprolled,~Mid thousand lamps, appears
122    33|           faithless treaty, here,~Mid snares by the malignant
123    33|          you see how Rome is woe,~Mid ruthless rapine, murder,
124    33|           together wend the two,~'Mid barons bold, that king and
125    34|          offends;~ ~ LI~And this, mid fruit and flower and verdure
126    34|       with a calm content.~In the mid plain arose a palace fair,~
127    34|   Astrologers' and sophists' wits mid these,~And many a poet's
128    35|        air~Upon a shaft, which in mid fane ascends;~There consecrates
129    35|       drowns them, as thou seest, mid sand and surges.~And one
130    35|           Was, as 'tis famed; and mid the nameless swarm,~Thousands
131    35|         suspended from the stone;~Mid these a king's, that idly
132    36|          VI~As Hector and Aeneas, mid the flood,~Fire to the banded
133    36|           Lestrigon.~ ~ X~I ween, mid warriors in the days of
134    36|        the lance to pierce her in mid breast,~And put her every
135    36|       blue~She recognized Rogero, mid the rest.~With eyes and
136    36|      remembers in such wise,~That mid a thousand would he recognize.~ ~
137    36|        was a little plain.~In the mid lawn a wood of cypress grew,~
138    36|          of a boat,~To founder in mid ocean, set afloat.~ ~  LXI~"
139    37|          mind, unconquered still,~Mid threats of ruin, which in
140    37|           bank has shown;~For he, mid bark and car, amid the gleam~
141    37|           course to run.~ ~ XVIII~Mid victories born, Victoria
142    37|        Some old, some young; nor, mid so large a clan,~Appeared
143    37|     clothes:~They of the village, mid the cavalcade,~Know her
144    37|        offence.~Better they deem, mid pangs prolonged and slow,~
145    37|          three had doomed to die,~Mid trouble, fear, and lengthened
146    37|         With a sharp goad, which, mid that village band,~A peasant
147    38|           such duty seemed to be,~Mid emperors or kings that filled
148    38|            The warrior is but one mid many spears,~Matched singly
149    38|       Africk and of Spain.~In the mid space between the hosts
150    38|         each hastily repairs;~And mid their several powers are
151    39|        feat;~All ran alike: but, 'mid that wild affray,~These
152    39|          rich.~ ~  LXIII~He said, mid many reasons which he prest,~
153    39|           and sword,~And perished mid the waters, one who wrought~
154    40|           mourned,~With Agramant, mid diverse deaths and woes,~
155    40|        redouted Dane~Assaulted in mid sea the Moorish train.~ ~
156    40|           The prayer to turn; but mid the foes leapt down;~I say,
157    40|     courser's side;~Then, nearer, mid those knights of mickle
158    41|          the sky,~As the glad sun mid glittering orbs on high.~ ~
159    41|       doleful shrieks are heard, 'mid sob and tear,~Calling for
160    41|       LXIX~When they encounter in mid field, pell-mell,~And to
161    41|          He, loose and walking in mid field, espied~The goodly
162    41|         so the fight is balanced 'mid those foes,~Sobrino, that
163    41|        upon the front,~Smote with mid blade Anglantes' haughty
164    41|              C~Father of heaven! 'mid spirits chosen by thee,~
165    42|           unchristened train)~He, mid a hundred swords, unarmed,
166    42|      Which from its prison freed, mid hymns of love,~Ascends into
167    42|         pair,~That other lady, in mid air, sustain.~Their names
168    42|        gems or gold arraid,~She, 'mid the brightest, flung her
169    42|    downweighed.~For not a moment 'mid their converse slips,~But
170    43|        who with heavy stake~Smote mid some sapling trunks on every
171    44|   daughter.~ ~ ~ I~In poor abode, mid paltry walls and bare,~Amid
172    44|          court, beset with snare,~Mid envious wealth, and ease,
173    44|          welkin rends.~No sooner, mid that kind and festal show,~
174    44|         friends Rogero bring,~And mid those lords present him
175    44|        may do~The warrior honour, mid his martial train:~How the
176    44|       knight,~The mighty emperor, mid those greetings loud.~Before
177    44|           high in hall~His lords, mid tourney, mummery, mask and
178    44|           the foe.~The Child, who mid the Greeks, from whom they
179    45|        his daring sprite)~Thinks, mid a thousand squadrons in
180    45|      another sun illumed the sky,~Mid strange and gloomy woods
181    45|         Who soared to heaven, and mid the stars was placed.~ ~
182    46|          stubborn grief, reclined~Mid gloomy shades Rogero they
183    46|       demons the pavilion through mid air~To Paris from Constantinople
184    46|        with prophetic heat;~Who, 'mid long labour and 'mid vigil
185    46|        Who, 'mid long labour and 'mid vigil sore,~With her own
186    46|          his blooming age~Divides mid arts and wholesome discipline:~
187    46|         winds, which loudly blow,~Mid flash and clap; and when
188    46|           rage o'erflows,~Than in mid winter the tempestrous main~