god
Oceanus
Ocean
The world-encircling stream (and its god) from whose waters the bright daylight is imagined to rise.
Reading notes
- The Poems §61 Ocean
The world-encircling stream from which the daylight is imagined to rise; here a measure of beauty 'from Ocean's' first light.
- The Poems §64 Oceanus, who girdles
The world-encircling sea-Titan, grandfather of Thetis.