Read full poem →K. Edw. My heart is as an anvil unto sorrow,
Which beats upon it like the Cyclops’ hammers,
And with the noise turns up my giddy brain,
Dictionary Entry
A one-eyed giant from Greek and Roman mythology.
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Poetry examples for “cyclops”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Had you the gift of yours, Theophilus?
Not even a smeared young Cyclops at his games
Would have you long,--and you are one of us.
Read full poem →With hardening cold, and forming heat,
The Cyclops did their strokes repeat,
Before the impenetrable shield was wrought.
Read full poem →And its light on high,
Like a Cyclops' eye,
Shines out through the mist and gloom.
Read full poem →Homer's Hymn to Venus . . . .162
The Cyclops of Euripides . . . .165
To Stella : from Plato .... 200
Read full poem →mole underground. There was no coal on the surface. The land was
rusty-red and ashen-gray,--as though blasted by the torch of a Cyclops
and only yesterday cooled by the rain. The best grain that could have