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And she rose and stepped lightly onto the bow, maintaining her balance without effort while the boat pitched, fearless, confident, swaying there between sky and sea. "Good-bye," she said, gravely nodding at him. "Good-bye, Calypso!" She joined her finger tips above her head, preliminary to a plunge. Then she looked down at him over her shoulder. "I told you that Calypso was a land nymph."
Then Calypso said to Hermes: "Wherefore hast thou come hither, Hermes of the golden wand? Welcome thou art, but it is long since thou hast visited me. Tell me all thy thought, that I may fulfil it if I may, but first follow me, that I may set food before thee." So, when he had comforted his soul with food, he spake, saying: "Thou questionest of my coming, and I will tell thee the truth.
Ulysses had not eaten the flesh of the oxen; and he alone was saved, clinging to a spar, and was tossed on the island of the nymph Calypso. After a long sojourn he escaped from here on a raft. But his old enemy Neptune again raised a storm, which broke his raft; and, naked and almost dead, he was thrown upon another shore, from which at last the pitying people sent him home.
There are many parallels in classic story and folklore of the incident of Tannhauser's sojourn with Venus. I mention but a few. There are the episodes of Ulysses and Calypso, Ulysses and Circe, Numa and Egeria, Rinaldo and Armida, Prince Ahmed and Peri Banou. Less familiar are the folk-tales which Mr.
His writings soon made him known to the court and town, yet it was neither to the savour of the court, nor to that of the earl of Rochester, that he was indebted to the nomination the king made of him, for the writing the Masque of Calypso, but to the malice of that noble lord, who designed by that preference to mortify Mr. Dryden.
I did not think them noticeably indecorous, as compared with a hundred other pictures that are shown and looked at without scruple; Calypso and her nymphs, a knot of nude women by Titian, is perhaps as objectionable as any. But even Titian's flesh-tints cannot keep, and have not kept their warmth through all these centuries.
Besides, if Lucille is Calypso, what about Penelope?" Lady Carey smiled thoughtfully. "I have always thought," she said, "that Penelope was a myth. In your case I should say that Penelope represents a return to sanity to the ordinary ways of life." Mr. Sabin and Lucille exchanged swift glances. He raised his eyebrows. "Our little idyll," he said, "seems to be the sport and buffet of every one.
"I know it; I almost lost you by saying 'Calypso' a moment ago and I'm taking no more risks." "Am I to infer that you expect to recover me after this?" And, as he made no answer: "You dare not admit that you hope to see me again. You are horribly afraid of me even if I have defied convention and your opinions and have graciously overlooked your impertinence.
'Sides, ye forgit thet we haven't any weepens to fight 'em with 'ceptin' our knives." This was true; neither gun, pistol, nor other offensive arm having been saved from the sinking Calypso. Ef we hedn't got holt o' them, some uv 'em mout be stickin' in us now. Ez ye may see, they're the sort for dartin'."
Only Ulysses was left in the hall, and Alcinous and Arete with him. And Arete recognized his clothing, and said: "Whence art thou, stranger? and who gave thee these garments?" So Ulysses told her how he had come from the island of Calypso, and what he had suffered, and how Nausicaa had found him on the shore, and had guided him to the city.
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