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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Solution
SolutionI am the Muse who sung alway By Jove, at dawn of the first day. Star-crowned, sole-sitting, long I wrought To fire the stagnant earth with thought: On spawning slime my song prevails…John Hall Wheelock: Earth
EarthJohn Hall WheelockGrasshopper, your fairy song And my poem alike belong To the dark and silent earth From which all poetry has birth; All we say and all we sing Is but as the murmuring…Brewer's: Body and Soul
To keep body and soul together. To sustain life; from the notion that the soul gives life. The Latin anima, and the Greek psyche, mean both soul and life; and, according to Homeric…Brewer's: Bootes
(Bo-o'-tees ), or the ox-driver, a constellation. According to ancient mythology, Boötes invented the plough, to which he yoked two oxen, and at death, being taken to heaven with his…Brewer's: Briareos
or Ægeon. A giant with fifty heads and a hundred hands. Homer says the gods called him Briareos, but men called him Ægeon. (Iliad, i. 403.) Not he who brandished in his hundred hands His…Year in Review, 1998: Top 10 Sports Moments of the Year, Part 2
Twenty-year-old Se Ri Pak acknow-ledges the gallery after finishing the second round of the U.S. Women's Open on July 3.6. Nykesha Sales Breaks the Record? It was really a cruel joke. Nykesha…Brewer's: Nepenthe
(3 syl.) or Nepenthes, a drug to drive away care and superinduce love. Polydamna, wife of Thonis (or Thone, 1 syl.), King of Egypt, gave nepenthe to Helen (daughter of Jove and Leda).…Brewer's: Nestor
King of Pylos, in Greece; the oldest and most experienced of the chieftains who went to the siege of Troy A “Nestor” means the oldest and wisest man of a class or company. (Homer Iliad.)…Brewer's: Troilus
(3 syl.). The prince of chivalry, one of the sons of Priam, killed by Achilles in the siege of Troy (Homer's Iliad). The loves of Troilus and Cressida, celebrated by Shakespeare and…Brewer's: Trojan
He is a regular Trojan. A fine fellow, with good courage and plenty of spirit; what the French call a brave homme. The Trojans in Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Æneid are described as truthful…Trending
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