Time & Brevity

The Visions of Bellay: XV

by Joachim du Bellay 1522–1560

Edmund Spenser (Complaints, 1591) · From The Visions of Bellay (Songe)

Time & Brevity

At length, even at the time when Morpheus
Most trulie doth unto our eyes appeare,
Wearie to see the heavens still wavering thus,
I saw Typhaeus sister comming neare;
Whose head, full bravely with a morion hidd,
Did seeme to match the gods in maiestie.
She, by a rivers bancke that swift downe slidd,
Over all the world did raise a trophee hie;
An hundred vanquisht kings under her lay,
With armes bound at their backs in shamefull wize.
Whilst I thus mazed was with great affray,
I saw the heavens in warre against her rize:
Then downe she stricken fell with clap of thonder,
That with great noyse I wakte in sudden wonder.

MLA

Bellay, Joachim du. “The Visions of Bellay: XV.” Translated by Edmund Spenser. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/du-bellay/46/.

Chicago

Bellay, Joachim du. “The Visions of Bellay: XV.” Translated by Edmund Spenser. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/du-bellay/46/.

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