Dictionary Entry

helicon

A large tuba whose coils fit around the player's shoulders.

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Common Phrases

. heliconpress heliconhall heliconwave heliconnine heliconwaves heliconhelicon mounthelicon englands

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Poetry examples for “helicon”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

He is here, Urania's son,
Hymen come from Helicon;
God that glads the lover's heart,

And as of old, when Helicon
Trembled and swayed with rapture vast

Gather about me, O Muses!
When we sat upon the granite brink in Helicon
Clothed in the tattered sunlight,

A sunny wreath for poets meet,
From Helicon's immortal soil,
Where sacred Time with pilgrim feet

For one whose palate gladdens in the flavour
Of sparkling Helicon:--small good it were
To take him to a desert rude, and bare.

Here be tears of perfect moan
Weept for thee in Helicon,
And som Flowers, and som Bays,

Shrills round their portal;
Yet not on Helicon
Kept they more cloudless

Shrills round their portal;
Yet not on Helicon
Kept they more cloudless

Not you, whose bosom is the Muses home;
When they from tow'ring Helicon retire,
They fan in you the bright immortal fire,

And give to rapture all thy trembling strings.
From Helicon's harmonious springs
A thousand rills their mazy progress take: