All 6 Uses of
abyss
in
Faust -- translated by Brooks
- No savage mountain climbing to the skies
Should stay the godlike course with wild abysses;
And now the sea, with sheltering, warm recesses
Spreads out before the astonished eyes.†Chpt Allabysses = holes or dropoffs so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply frightening bottomless pits
- Vanish, ye gloomy
Vaulted abysses!†Chpt All *
- That, like a cataract, from rock to rock descended
To the abyss, with maddening greed possest:
She, on its brink, with childlike thoughts and lowly,—
Perched on the little Alpine field her cot,—
This narrow world, so still and holy
Ensphering, like a heaven, her lot.†Chpt Allabyss = a hole or dropoff so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply a frightening bottomless pit
- And even down the deep abysses
Its melancholy quiverings throw!†Chpt Allabysses = holes or dropoffs so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply frightening bottomless pits
- Else will they hurl thee down the dark abysses there.†
Chpt All
- In frightful confusion, headlong tumbling,
They fall, with a sound of thunder rumbling,
And, through the wreck-piled ravines and abysses,
The tempest howls and hisses.†Chpt All