"Danaus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the wandering stream we all must go, Adown Cocytus' waters, black and slow; The ill-famed race of Danaus all must see, And Sisyphus, from ...
— Horace and His Influence • Grant Showerman
... school-house of my A, B, C, Where well-drilled urchins, each behind his tire, Waited in ranks the wished command to fire, Then all together, when the signal came, Discharged their a-b abs against the dame. Daughter of Danaus, who could daily pour In treacherous pipkins her Pierian store, She, mid the volleyed learning firm and calm, Patted the furloughed ferule on her palm, And, to our wonder, could divine at once Who flashed the pan, and who was ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell |
