"Incompass" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ceas'd, and ardent thus replies The God, whose glory decks th' expanded skies. "Cease thy complaints, mine be the task assign'd "To punish pride, and scourge the rebel mind." This Phoebe join'd.—They wing their instant flight; Thebes trembled as th' immortal pow'rs alight. With clouds incompass'd glorious Phoebus stands; The feather'd vengeance quiv'ring in his hands. Near Cadmus' walls a plain extended lay, Where Thebes' young princes pass'd in sport the day: There the bold coursers bounded o'er the plains, While their great masters held the golden reins. ...
— Religious and Moral Poems • Phillis Wheatley |
