Canto

  1     1|          damsel turns her palfrey round,~And shakes the floating
  2     2|       wings to rise and fly,~Runs round the rugged rock with hopeless
  3     2|        fit, he wheels his courser round,~Who shuts his wings, and
  4     2|       deep descent.~Then, looking round, descried an elm-tree old,~
  5     3|          upon the circle's sacred round,~But, when they would the
  6     3|          too, which fishy marshes round enclose,~And Po's two currents
  7     4|        fair, the wretched damsels round,~(And all in fact the felon
  8     4|        head, than wheeling widely round,~The flying courser pitched
  9     4|           a chain, which he,~Girt round about him for such a purpose,
 10     4|       towards the rock.~ ~ XXXVII~Round by the conqueror with the
 11     4|          which the rugged hill to round;~And climb, till to the
 12     4|       sinking light,~When he goes round the heavenly crab, descends;~
 13     4|       other worthies of the table round;~(Of either table, whether
 14     4|         greater part, not bruited round.~"Then seek (they said)
 15     4|         through the gloomy forest round,~Loud lamentations nigh
 16     5|        with tassels of vermillion round,~Mimicking fashions, which
 17     6|       have seen a lovelier in his round,~Than that, where, wheeling
 18     6|             LXXI~Above, a cornice round the gateway goes,~Somedeal
 19     7|      smooth, the forehead gay and round~Fills up the space, and
 20     7|      softly beam and slowly move;~Round these appears to sport in
 21     7|      bosom, and the neck of snow;~Round is the neck, and full and
 22     7|          A foot, neat, short, and round, beneath is spied.~Angelic
 23     7|         in mixed diversity,~Made, round about, the joyous palace
 24     7|          ear; and from the yellow round~Depend two precious pearls;
 25     7|        this ample world, examined round,~A hag so old and hideous
 26     8|          meiny sound to arms,~And round herself arrayed her martial
 27     8|       Britain, or the isles which round her lay,~To assemble near
 28     8|         done?~ ~  LXIX~This while round Paris-walls the leaguer
 29     8|    perchance, yet rove thy lonely round?~Art thou, indeed, to ravening
 30     9|          to navigate; nor yet the round~Of a new sun was buried
 31     9|        closed behind, in the iron round,~Touches with fire a vent,
 32    10|           Bireno, and the caverns round,~Pitying her grief, Bireno'
 33    10|    imitate the sunshine, fill~All round about with such a flood
 34    10|       commands;~And finish so the round he had begun,~Circling the
 35    10|           he~With taste of roving round the world possest,~Would
 36    10|     Iceland's end.~All lands that round them lie, in fine, increase~
 37    10|    compassing the warrior, form a round.~ ~ XCI~So that to raise
 38    11|           the cord, and turns him round,~And rolls and rises, yet
 39    11|        flew.~The noise re-echoing round, the distant shore~And wood
 40    11|         the beast, from countries round.~Nor long his followers
 41    12|              XIII~Roland, when he round that strange dome had paced~
 42    12|          XIV~While Roland wanders round the sylvan Hall,~Still holding
 43    12|        hope they in the woodlands round~Might be, he sallied; but
 44    12|      guides than these for such a round.~ ~ XXV~Now this, now that
 45    12|        broken squadron, scattered round,~Some fly, some dip, and
 46    13|          the larboard side,~Which round about the clear horizon
 47    14|        stroke;~Another wreath may round your temples bloom,~In that
 48    14|        Lisbon ruled, whose golden round~Was at his death on Tessira
 49    14|         Who shall bar my way?" --~Round and about him suddenly they
 50    14|        saw farm and cabin smoking round.~ ~ LXII~Pastoral lodgings
 51    14|     through boughs spread thickly round;~And it is here a cave runs
 52    14|           the scout and walks his round,~Equipt with shoes of felt
 53    14|     advancing troop kept skirting round,~In front, and flank, and
 54    14|         shored,~Two mannered each round; the second, in the rear,~
 55    15|              CANTO 15~ ~ ARGUMENT~Round about Paris every where
 56    15|          Content he, after such a round, should veer~For Persian
 57    15|      blows astern;~And (coasting) round the rich and populous land~
 58    15|         upon the desert lair;~And round about his griesly palace
 59    15|       into the net, which closing round,~Hampers the wretch, and
 60    15|        shares and maims the felon round.~Orrilo re-unites the portions
 61    16|          moat which girt the city round.~ ~ XXI~When he was known
 62    16|    habitants of all the countries round:~Nor speak I only of the
 63    16|         the jar,~And thus Rinaldo round Zerbino clears~The field
 64    17|      cannot scale the walls which round him spread,~Unscathed, unquestioned,
 65    17|            XIV~Charles turned him round to these, of vigorous hand,~
 66    17|          much solace, seated in a round,~We from the chace expect
 67    17|         the fruitful grease~Which round about the fat intestines
 68    17|        conqueror of that day:~And round about loud voices, high
 69    17|          dragged in due dishonour round,~Suspended at the shameful
 70    18|            XIII~All the defences, round, abandoned are,~The unpeopled
 71    18|         cresting in his rage,~And round the den loud-bellowing,
 72    18|         cannot pierce the hostile round,~Unless he thence escape
 73    18|      train~Impedes as well, which round about him flows,~And renders
 74    18|       temple strongly walled, and round~Whose base a moat for its
 75    18|       gained~A bridge, and facing round the post maintained.~ ~
 76    18|         fountain fed,~Waters, all round about, the fertile space.~
 77    18|       heaps of slaughtered men he round him eyed.~"Better it were,"
 78    18|    Sobrino) scowers the squadrons round;~And with them every leader
 79    18|         and bids up and down,~And round, high-piled and frequent
 80    18|         are near~The place, where round King Charles' pavilion~Are
 81    19|         like a top, the boy turns round~And keeps him as he can:
 82    19|      shore~Than sea, which raging round them, far and wide,~Than
 83    20|          fire,~Then roving singly round the world is borne.~Marphisa,
 84    20|         cousin am," and clipt him round the waist,~And in a kindly
 85    20|         mouth applied the bugle's round;~The wide world seemed to
 86    20|          quay;~He turns and gazes round the desert strand,~And none
 87    20|           and now journeying in a round~With him, from castle was
 88    21|         believe is wound so tight~Round chest, nor nails the plank
 89    21|          on the other side,~Roved round his castle but to ascertain~
 90    22|       forth the twain,~After long round, and reached in fine the
 91    22|       flank, and prest him in his round,~Hunting him close and ever
 92    22|       Spain and all the countries round.~ ~ XCIV~When that so strange
 93    23|       thanks had followed, with a round~Of courtesies between the
 94    23|          tell.~ ~ CII~Turning him round, he there, on many a tree,~
 95    23|        hell, tormented, walks its round,~To be, but in its shadow
 96    23|          slept, till in his daily round~The golden sun had broken
 97    24|           his comrades turned him round, and said:~"To let the traitour
 98    24|          he sought the greenwood, round,~Which separate from the
 99    24|       relics which were scattered round.~ ~ LIII~Isabel lights as
100    24|       hunts him hard,~And circles round about; but he lies by~Till
101    24|           So, compassing a mighty round, they fare~Through wildest
102    24|      whistling of the steel which round him flew,~Saved, with sore
103    25|          Though in the fosse, and round the palisade,~Stood many
104    26|         wind was blown about,~And round about it ranged a numerous
105    26|          fair design,~Embroidered round about with choicest lore,~
106    26|     Merlin's sleight;~Encompassed round about with marble fair,~
107    26|        every where, at first, her round:~Unvisited she left yet
108    26|         destroyer of each country round:~Parforce will every standard
109    26|         few compared with numbers round,~Whom that despiteous Beast
110    26|          know not, heard upon her round,~He here with Richardetto
111    26|          senses repossest,~Turned round this while, and Richardetto
112    27|        mile or somewhat less, and round;~Like ancient theatre, on
113    27|         Great was the throng, and round the palisade~On every side
114    27|       LXXXVI~The others who stood round her, wont to hear~Brunello
115    27|     pullet, in her talons circled round;~And bore him where the
116    27|       that ample rout~He gathered round himself the pressing tide.~
117    27|         oft was with her on their round,~And oftener private with
118    27|         Victual, from many places round purveyed:~Since even from
119    28|         lord to wear;~ ~ XVI~"And round his neck entreats him, for
120    28|       Jocundo, at a trot, wheeled round his hack,~And when that
121    29|          contained,~That drinking round, in measure full or short,~
122    29|       wise.~ ~ XXXII~In all parts round about this chosen site,~
123    29|        heavy stones the mountains round,~And raised a fabric ninety
124    30|         of him occasion will come round.~-- Sir, what befel the
125    30| interposed, in act or word,~Where round the palisade the people
126    30|           one of those who waited round~Weened he the prize and
127    30|          worthiest cavalier~Crowd round Rogero, who has risen with
128    30|        arrival till the time came round~When he by promise to return
129    31|       battle, wheeled his courser round,~And for the tourney took
130    31|          and humane.~He clipt her round with many a fond caress,~
131    31|           cypresses was broidered round.~ ~  LXXIX~Who was that
132    32|            She turned her courser round, without a word,~Inflamed
133    32|        shall circle in its wonted round.~ ~ LVI~"Yet she not these
134    32|          Since they for ten miles round no shelter find,~But Clodion,
135    32|       strayed,~Puffing and pacing round his lofty tower,~As if that
136    33|    restless wind, which whirls it round,~Lifts if aloft awhile,
137    33|         lances, see~The Spaniards round the valiant monarch wield.~
138    33|       moat which girt that castle round,~Nor even kept the faulchions
139    33|           regions in his spacious round;~He turned his back upon
140    33|         quickly lifts the bugle's round;~And (for unguarded are
141    34|      below,~Including seas, which round about it flow.~ ~ LXXI~Here
142    34|     fullest vessel and of amplest round~Which held the wit Orlando
143    36|           She wheeled her courser round, with fury fraught,~Less
144    37|      worth, which in this earthly round~Is seen in them who don
145    37|        side,~As neither compassed round by wall or ditch.~A rock
146    38|          crowd, encompassing them round,~Press, harm, and heave
147    38|          descended from the lucid round,~On this our earthly planet'
148    38|          Yet they their camp have round Biserta placed,~And laid
149    39|          savage whirled a sapling round,~So hard, so heavy, and
150    39|     Monodantes' household; a long round~To seek his Brandimart that
151    39|          XLVIII~Seeing the circle round about him grow,~Levels his
152    39|       hold had clasped the madman round.~To Olivier, too forward
153    40|      shred and shorn, the paynims round~In fury shreds and shears
154    40|        furrows and glad harvests, round,~And, with the sheepcotes,
155    40|         girdles the infernal city round.~From house to house the
156    40|       ranged upon the strand,~And round them stood their Nubian
157    41|          be lords of the dominion round!)~Entitled in a future season
158    41|    Sericana's monarch hard,~Turns round, and, like himself, afoot
159    41|        foe;~ ~ XCVIII~But turning round, beholds the royal Moor~
160    41|         ring that girt his helmet round,~Two inches thick, was broke
161    42|      breast, and girt the monster round.~ ~ XLVIII~What in a thousand,
162    42|     knight,~"Where is he?" gazing round about him, said.~He cannot
163    42|      statues in the middle form a round,~The floor whereof dry stalks
164    43|           and mien;~As eight that round this fount by thee are seen.~ ~
165    43|    neighbouring France, nor in my round~Through far and foreign
166    43|          Thought run its restless round,~Ceased Love, so wont to
167    43|           truly felt, on wheeling round his steed,~As if his heart
168    43|          labourer's cabins in his round~The stripling halts, before
169    43|           costly jewels scattered round.~So that Argia's pride of
170    43|          seen to run her restless round.~ ~ CLIX~Now to the one,
171    43|          The pleasant shores that round Girgenti lay.~Here Roland
172    44|          And winds unmoved, which round about it roar~Nor I have
173    44|        Nothing in all the country round is lost)~He from his lofty
174    44|          feet, and some his hand.~Round him as closely as they could
175    45|      wheel, which runs a restless round,~We so much sooner see his
176    45|       nature's latest pain.~There round the neck of their unwary
177    45|          are moved by blasts that round them rave,~No more by furious
178    45|         with his rider paced that round,~Who never ceased a moment
179    46|       amid the band,~That crowded round the royal chair to hear,~
180    46|         four ages in this earthly round~Was ever born a boy so fair
181    46|        troop, in guise~Of pigeons round the lists, a timid show;~
182    46|           and ready coursers in a round,~The warriors with their
183    46|            and turned his courser round;~While with his right he
184    46|        all his strength engirdled round.~At once he past his better
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