“The stag in limpid currents with surprise
Sees crystal branches on his forehead rise.”
Epistle: "To the Earl of Dorset" (1709), line 39.
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Anglo-Irish poet and politician 1674–1749Related quotes
“White moon gleaming
Among trees,
From every branch
Sound rising into
Canopies.”
La lune blanche
Luit dans les bois;
De chaque branche
Part une voix
Sous la ramée.
"La lune blanche", line 1, from La Bonne Chanson (1872); Sorrell p. 57
“The wrinkles on his forehead are the marks which his mighty deeds have engraved.”
Ses rides, sur son front, ont grave ses exploits.
Don Diego, act I, scene i.
Le Cid (1636)
“The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.”
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Canto I, stanza 1.
The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
“The giant was hairy, the giant was horrid,
He had one eye in the middle of his forehead.”
"Adventures of Isabel" http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/adventures-of-isabel/
“Life is a wounded stag in whom the fast-stuck arrows function as wings.”
La vida es ciervo herido,
que las flechas le dan alas.
"¡Oh cuán bien que acusa Alcino!", line 23; cited from Poesias de D. Luis de Gongora y Argote (Madrid: Imprenta Nacional, 1820) p. 74. Translation from Ronald M. Macandrew Naturalism in Spanish Poetry from the Origins to 1900 (Aberdeen: Milne and Hutchinson, 1931) p. 75.