Had Heaven preserv'd my Innocence intire, That I with confidence might have ador'd you, Though I had been successless; Yet I had liv'd and hop'd, and aim'd to merit you:

Women often, for their own sakes, will keep the last secret; but will ostentatiously din the ears of gods and men with their clamours upon a successless offer.

Geryon pushed back with them from the edge of the precipice, like a ship leaving harbour; and then, turning about, wheeled, like a sullen successless falcon, slowly down through the air in many a circuit.

"Yet, though successless, will the toil delight.

For shouldst thou fly successless from my hand, I have no second to send after thee.

If, as a victor, you the brave regard, Successless courage, then, may hope reward; And I, returning safe, may justly boast, To win the prize which my dear brother lost.

Trials of love too dear the making cost; For if successless, the whole venture's lost.

The bloody fight, successless toil, And how the fishes sack'd the isle.