Said Wynken, Blynken and Nod.
Eugene Field, A Little Book of Western Verse, (1889).
Wyo´ming, in Pennsylvania, purchased by an American company from the Delaware Indians. It was settled by an American colony, but being subject to constant attacks from the savages the colony armed in self-defence. In 1778 most of the able-bodied men were called to join the army of Washington, and in the summer of that year an army of British and Indian allies, led by Colonel Butler, attacked the settlement, massacred the inhabitants, and burnt their houses to the ground.
⁂ Campbell has made this the subject of a poem entitled Gertrude of Wyoming, but he pronounces the name Wy´oming, and makes Brant, instead of Butler, the leader of the attack.
Wyvill (William de), a steward of the field at the tournament.--Sir W. Scott, Ivanhoe (time, Richard I.).
Xan´adu, a city mentioned by Coleridge in his fragment, Kubla Khan. The idea of this poem is borrowed from the Pilgrimage by Purchas (1613), where Xanadu is called “Xaindu.” Coleridge says that he composed the poem in a dream, after reading Purchas’ Pilgrimage.
Xanthos, the horse of Achillês. He spoke with a human voice, like Balaam’s ass, Adrastos’s horse (Arīon), Fortunio’s horse (Comrade), Mahomet’s “horse” (Al Borak), Sâleh’s camel, the dog of the seven sleepers (Katmîr), the black pigeons of Dodona and Ammon, the king of serpents (Temliha), the serpent which was cursed for tempting Eve, the talking-bird called bulbul-hēzar, the little green bird of Princess Fairstar, the White Cat cum quibusdam aliis.
The mournful Xanthus (says the bard of old)
Of Peleus’ warlike son the fortune told.