Heav'd On Olympus Tott'ring Ossa Stood; On Ossa, Pelion Nods With All His Wood.

Then the omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion.
-- Ovid (43 BC) -- Metamorphoses, i...
But sure the eye of time beholds no name So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xi, Line 591...
And pines with thirst amidst a sea of waves.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xi, Line 722...
Gloomy as night he stands.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xi, Line 749...
Soft as some song divine thy story flows.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xi, Line 458...
The first in glory, as the first in place.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xi, Line 441...
There in the bright assemblies of the skies.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xi, Line 745...
Thin airy shoals of visionary ghosts.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xi, Line 48...
Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xi, Line 153...