 Lycidas? For neither were ye playing on the steep Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Ay me! I fondly dream " Had ye been there," . . . for what could that have...  Poet's Walk: An Introduction to English Poetry - Page 22by Mowbray Morris - 1898 - 343 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wisard stream : Ay me ! I fondly dream Had ye been there,...lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...Bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wisard stream : Ay me ! I fondly dream ! Had ye been there...When, by the rout that made the hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wisard stream : Ay me ! I fondly dream ! Had ye been there—for what could that have done ? What could the Muse herself...When, by the rout that made the hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down' the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Or with the tangles... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wisard stream: Ay me ! I fondly dream ! Had ye been there—for what could that have done ? What could the Muse herself...When, by the rout that made the hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas! what boots... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...dream 1 Had ye been there — for what could that have done i What could the Muse herself that Orpheu* bore, The Muse herself for her enchanting son, Whom...sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...stream : Ay me ! I fondly dream ! Had ye been there — for what could that have done f • \Vhiit could* the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse...sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...dream ! Had ye been there — for what could that have done ? What could the Muse herself that Orphens bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, Whom...sent, Down the swift Hebrus, to the Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream : Ay me tl fondly dream Had you form ethereal burst upon his sight, And moves in all the majesty of light. Though loud goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas! what boots... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...herself that Orpheus bore. The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, Whom universal Nature did lament, 60 When, by the rout that made the hideous roar. His...was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted shepherd's trade, C5 And strictly... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...that have done ? What could the muse herself that Orpheus bore, The muse herself for her inchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, When by the...was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly... | |
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