And Zara, lovely Zara, did he give into the care Of the noble Countess Palma, who loved the maiden fair.

When Arthur had settled his realm in peace, righted all wrongs, and restored the kingdom to its ancient borders, he took to wife a certain fresh and noble maiden, named Guenevere, making her his queen.

" Then we kissed the little maiden, And we spoke in better cheer,

He was about twenty-five years old when he fell in love with Rosalind; and he remained single until he was forty-two, when he married an Irish maiden named Elizabeth.

I saw a maiden on a stream, And fair was she!

II Many years later one of the great artists of Venice, wandering about at sunset with an elusive vision of some wonderful picture stirring impatience within his soul, found a maiden sitting under the vine-covered pergola of the Traghetto San Maurizio, where she was waiting for her brother-in-law, who would presently touch at this ferry on his homeward way to Murano.

Virginius, now despairing of deliverance, begged Appius to allow him to ask the maiden whether she were indeed his daughter or not.

My feet are winged, while o'er the dewy lawn, I meet my maiden risen like the morn: O bless those holy feet, like angels' feet; O bless those limbs, beaming with heavenly light.

Who was your accomplice?" "Not a soul," replied the maiden.

Some represent the maiden as delivering an oration from the top of the rock, long enough for an address at a college celebration.

And the blind Man was told how you had rescued A maiden from the ruffian violence Of this same Clifford, he became impatient And would not hear me.

These solitary walks thou dost frequent, Yield fresh occasions to thy secret moans: We will therefore thou keep us company, Leaving thy maidens with their harmony.

If she had been pinned down, she would probably have admitted that she expected to behold an Indian maiden garbed in beaded buckskin and brass ornaments.

Then a mighty wind arose, and carried the maiden to an enchanted palace, where she was waited on by unseen spirits who played sweet music for her delight, and fed her with delicious food.

" "Strange man," returned the maiden, "who knowest Homer's speech and not Homer's self, who renouncest Zeus and resemblest him, hear my tale

A cry rang down the Canal Grande from the gondoliers of the Ca' Giustiniani, who were waiting this sign to start their own train from the palazzo; for the bridal gondolas were coming in sight, with felzi of damask, rose, and blue, embroidered with emblems of the Giustiniani, bearing the noble maidens who had been chosen for the household of the Lady Marina, each flower-like and charming under her gauzy veil of tenderest coloring.

He seized the maiden and bore her to his den, and turned her into a bear, and she dwelt with him, until one day her brother killed the bear and she was freed.

On each side of the throne there stood two very beautiful maidens, having their faces and necks bare, with their hair tied on the top of their heads, and large pearls in their ears.

And you are to tell that maiden that the young knight who slew Sir Boindegardus greets her and that he tells her that in a little while he will return to repay to Sir Kay that buffet he gave her.

I know a maiden fair of face, Who mostly turns her back.

In none of the Greek grave-reliefs does any such thing as a rod make an appearance, except in one well-known example where the god Hermesgenerally represented as carrying the caduceus, or staff, given him by Phoebusappears leading a dead maiden to the land of night.

" "I would not be trafficked for, Don Camillo Monforte, but wooed and won as befitteth a maiden of my condition.

He mused and dreamed, and fancied it would be so pleasant to be in love; for he was at that golden agethe only golden age the world has ever seenwhen the heart passes from vision to vision (as the bee from flower to flower)and wanders, in its dreams of hope, from earth to heaven, from sunshine to shadefrom warbling groves to sighing maidens.

He spoke Of giving us, your maidens, to his knights In carnal wedlock: but I fear him not: For God's own word is pledged to keep me pure I am a maid.

And thou, celestial warrior, that didst deliver the maiden out of the serpent's mouth, if I have ever lit humble taper on thine altar, and set before thee offerings of gold and incense, be, I implore thee, her advocate.