Four Songs of Four Seasons - a poem by the English poet Algonon Charles Swinburne, published in the volume Poems and Ballads. Second Series in 1878. The song consists of four parts Winter in Northumberland, Spring in Tuscany, Summer in Auvergne and Autumn in Cornwall. It is varied in terms of form, metric and strophic. In this poem, Swinburne uses alliteration, which is a permanent feature of his work: The sundawn fills the land Full as a feaster's hand Fills full with bloom of bland Bright wine his cup; Flows full to flood that fills From the arch of air it thrills Those rust-red iron hills With morning up. Bibliography
wiki
Myrmex Indikos
Myrmex Indikos, pol. Indian ant - an alleged species of gigantic ants (according to Herodot's description, larger than foxes, but smaller than dogs). The earliest mention of these creatures is dated to the fifth century BC, and its author is Herodotus. According to her, these ants inhabited the deserts of Persia and India and extracted gold from their sands. Several such creatures were kept in the residence of the King of Persia. Gold was to be obtained by caravans made up of several camels in the heat of the day, when the ants were protected underground. You had to do it quickly, because the ants sensed the smell of people and went on the pursuit, and they were deadly dangerous. This story is confirmed by the next accounts: Nearchos, one of the army officers of Alexander Macedoński, and Megastenes - a historian and traveler. The fragment of the Megasthenes (IV-III century BC) preserved in fragments can be seen in the underground mines at the foot of the mountains on the easte...
Comments
Post a Comment