Crossword-Solution: THALIA 6 letters, 41 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

MENALCAS First this frail hemlock-stalk to you I give, Which taught me "Corydon with love was fired For fair Alexis," ay, and this beside, "Who owns the flock?- Meliboeus?" MOPSUS But take you This shepherd's crook, which, howso hard he begged, Antigenes, then worthy to be loved, Prevailed not to obtain- with brass, you see, And equal knots, Menalcas, fashioned fair! ECLOGUE VI TO VARUS First my Thalia stooped in sportive mood To Syracusan strains, nor blushed within The woods to house her.

VIRGIL (Imitated) First on our shores I try THALIA'S powers, And bid the laughing, useful Maid be ours.

Landor is great, too, but in another kind; the bees that hummed over Plato's cradle have left their honey on his lips; none but Landor, or a Greek, could have written this on Catullus: "Tell me not what too well I know About the Bard of Sirmio-- Yes, in Thalia's son Such stains there are as when a Grace Sprinkles another's laughing face With nectar, and runs on!" That is poetry deserving of a place among the rarest things in the Anthology.

Hither, from the garish, indelicate theatre that held her languishing, Thalia was bidden, if haply, under the open sky, she might resume her old charm.

THALIA THE CITIZENS Thus did the modest son slip away from the angry upbraiding; But in the tone he had taken at first, the father continued: "That comes not out of a man which he has not in him; and hardly Shall the joy ever be mine of seeing my dearest wish granted: That my son may not as his father be, but a better.