Poetry

of the church. In obedience to the apostle’s direction, the fisherman waited on Mellitus, Bishop of London, who, going to the church, found not only marks of the chrism, but of the tapers with which the church had been illuminated. Mellitus, therefore, desisted from proceeding to a new consecration, and contented himself with the celebration of the mass.”

—⁠Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum (edition of 1817), vol. 1 pp. 265, 266. See also Montalembert, Les Moines d’Occident, vol. 3 pp. 428⁠–⁠432

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Demophoön, son of Celeus, king of Eleusis. See, in the Homeric Hymns, the “Hymn to Demeter,” 184⁠–⁠298. ↩

Agamedes and Trophonius, the builders of the temple of Apollo at Delphi. See Plutarch, “Consolatio ad Apollonium,” c. 14. ↩

See The Birds of Aristophanes, 465⁠–⁠485. ↩

“Come, join the melancholious croon
O’ Robin’s reed.”

—⁠Burns, “Poor Mailie’s Elegy”

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Poetry
includes poems published between 1840 and 1891 by
Matthew Arnold.

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