Crossword-Solution: SIRENS 6 letters, 156 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

LVII “See here the stream of laughter, see the spring,” Quoth they, “of danger and of deadly pain, Here fond desire must by fair governing Be ruled, our lust bridled with wisdom’s rein, Our ears be stopped while these Sirens sing, Their notes enticing man to pleasure vain.” Thus passed they forward where the stream did make An ample pond, a large and spacious lake.

How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flowery-kirtled Naiades, Culling their potent herbs and baleful drugs, Who, as they sung, would take the prisoned soul, And lap it in Elysium: Scylla wept, And chid her barking waves into attention, And fell Charybdis murmured soft applause.

Eastward was a great cliff—a thousand feet high perhaps—coldly gray except for one bright edge of gold, and beyond it the Isle of the Sirens, and a falling coast that faded and passed into the hot sunrise.

Had you heard it from aboard the Argo, you would have declared it to be the sirens singing, and it would have been found necessary to lash you to the mast.

Their isles might be called sirens’ isles, not merely from the attraction they exerted on the passing mariner, but from the perils that awaited him on shore.