And now on Earth the Seventh, Eev’ning arose in Eden
And seems a moving Land, and at his Gills, Draws in, and at his Trunk spouts out a Sea.
Him fast sleeping soon he found, In Labyrinth of many a round self-rolled
Nor more; but fled, Murmuring, and with him fled the shades of night.
Me miserable! Which way shall I fly, Infinite wrath, and infinite despair?
Now storming fury rose, And clamor such as heard in Heaven till now
And now expecting, Each hour their great adventurer from the search, Of Foreign Worlds
So parted they, the Angel up to Heav’n, From the thick shade, and Adam to his Bower.
Meanwhile the tepid caves, and fens, and shores, Their brood as numerous hatch
Leaning half raised, with looks of cordial love, Hung over her enamoured
Vivien and Merlin disembark
Heaven rung, With jubilee, and loud Hosannas filled, The eternal regions.
Nor only tears, Rained at their eyes, but high winds worse within, Began to rise
The savoury pulp they chew, and in the rind, Still as they thirsted, scoop the brimming stream
Wave rolling after wave, where way they found, If steep, with torrent rapture
Nearer he drew, and many a walk traversed, Of stateliest covert, cedar, pine, or palm.
And God said, let the Waters generate, Reptile with Spawn abundant, living Soul: And let Fowl fly above the Earth
With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Toward the coast of earth beneath, Down from the ecliptick, sped with hoped success, Throws his steep flight in many an aery wheel.
Merlin paints the young knight's shield
Nadia Nerina as Sylvia
Violetta Elvin in Sylvia
Annette Page as Odette in Le Lac des cygnes
Guy Fraser Harrison
Margot Fonteyn as Péri
Tanaquil Le Clercq in Illuminations
Violetta Elvin as Blue Bird in Sleeping Beauty
Performance of The Sleeping Beauty, Act I by Sadler's Wells Ballet
Nadia Nerina as Odette-Odile in Swan Lake
Nadia Nerina as Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty
Anya Linden (Sainsbury) as Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty
Diana Adams as Iseult in Picnic at Tintagel
Mary Drage and Meriel Evans in Les Patineurs
Performance of The Sleeping Beauty by the Royal Ballet
Performance of The Sleeping Beauty by the Royal Ballet
Performance of The Sleeping Beauty by the Royal Ballet
Performance of The Sleeping Beauty by the Royal Ballet
Margot Fonteyn as Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty
Rowena Jackson and Michael Somes in Le Lac des Cygnes
Performance of Homage to the Queen by Sadler's Wells Ballet at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Pauline Clayden and Alexander Grant in Daphnis and Chloe
Merle Park as Lise in La Fille Mal Gardée
Merle Park as Lise in La Fille Mal Gardée
Nicholas Magallanes as The Poet in Illuminations
Brian Shaw the Blue Skater in Les Patineurs
Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes in La Péri
Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes in La Péri
Annette Page as Odette and Ronald Hynd as Siegfried in Le Lac des Cygnes
Annette Page as Odette and Ronald Hynd as Siegfried in Le Lac des Cygnes
Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes in the Birthday Offering
Michael Somes as Prince Siegfried and Rowena Jackson as Odette in Le Lac des Cygnes
Nadia Nerina and David Blair in Fille mal gardée
Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes in Sylvia, Act III
Melissa Hayden, Tanaquil LeClercq, and Nicholas Magallanes in Illuminations
Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes as Princess Aurora and Prince Florimund in Sleeping Beauty
At last she startled up, And gazed on the vacant air.
A house, but under some prodigious ban of Excommunication!
A little fairy comes at night, And from the moon she flutters down.
Maria Callas and Ettore Bastianini in Lucia di Lammermoor
Oh God! That bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!
And her hat with shady brim, Made her tressy forehead dim!
Glad to death's mystery. Swift to be hurl'd Any where, any out of the world!
Take her up tenderly, lift her with care, Fashion'd so slenderly, young, and so fair!
But love may haunt the grave of Love, And watch the mould in vain.
Jacques D'Amboise, Diana Adams, and Yvonne Mounsey in Picnic at Tintagel
So wills the fierc avenging sprite, Till blood for blood atones!
About us thus
After that I saw a multitude
Down whose steps
Such saw i many a face
Were further space allow'd
But so was doom'd
And I beheld myself
Already had my steps
Through every orb of that sad region
Prologue
Bridlegoose
Prologue
Here the rocky precipice
At length, as undeceived, they went their 'vay
The shadowy forms
And while, with looks directed to the ground
But not long slumber'd
And who are those twain spirits?
Then when he knew the pilot
While underneath, the ground
Beneath a sky so beautiful
Three nymphs, at the right wheel
For that all those living lights
And there were some, who in the shady place
The left bank
Then "glory to the father, to the son"
E'en thus the blind and poor
At her side, as 't were that none might bear her off
Thus, in a cloud of flowers
The wretch appear'd amid all these to say
On the road to the castle
Messire Oudart.
After dinner, Panurge went to see her.
Rondibilis the Physician
