beholds

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O dearer than the life, while life remained, My son, by Troy's hard destinies sore tried, Hither I come at Jove's command, who deigned Thy burning ships to save, and pitying-eyed Beholds thy sorrows.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax

Still there are moments, brief and bright, When fancy, by a poet's light, Beholds you clothed with loftier charms Than love e'er gave to mortal arms.

From The Poems of Henry Timrod by Timrod, Henry

Then Selim, gazing high in air, Beholds his loved one, hears her pray.

From Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II by Huth, Alexander

While Turnus and th' allies thus urge the war, The Trojan, floating in a flood of care, Beholds the tempest which his foes prepare.

From The Aeneid English by Virgil

All these and more the cloud-compelling queen Beholds through fogs, that magnify the scene.

From English Satires by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant