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... darkness spets her thickest gloom , And makes one blot of all the air ; Stay thy cloudy ebon chair , Wherein thou rid'st with Hecat , and befriend Us thy vowed priests , till utmost end Of all thy dues be done , and none left out ; Ere ...
... darkness spets her thickest gloom , And makes one blot of all the air ; Stay thy cloudy ebon chair , Wherein thou rid'st with Hecat , and befriend Us thy vowed priests , till utmost end Of all thy dues be done , and none left out ; Ere ...
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... , and why they came not back , Is now the labour of my thoughts ; ' tis likeliest They had engaged their wandering steps too far ; And envious darkness , ere they could return , Had stole them from me ; else , O thievish 16 COMUS .
... , and why they came not back , Is now the labour of my thoughts ; ' tis likeliest They had engaged their wandering steps too far ; And envious darkness , ere they could return , Had stole them from me ; else , O thievish 16 COMUS .
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... darkness do I find . What might this be ? A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory , Of calling shapes , and beckoning shadows dire , And airy tongues , that syllable men's names On sands , and shores , and desert ...
... darkness do I find . What might this be ? A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory , Of calling shapes , and beckoning shadows dire , And airy tongues , that syllable men's names On sands , and shores , and desert ...
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... darkness till it smiled ! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three , Amidst the flowery - kirtled Naiades Culling their potent herbs and baleful drugs , Who , as they sung , would take the prisoned soul And lap it in ...
... darkness till it smiled ! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three , Amidst the flowery - kirtled Naiades Culling their potent herbs and baleful drugs , Who , as they sung , would take the prisoned soul And lap it in ...
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... . you thus ? Dim darkness , and this leafy labyrinth . COMUS . Could that divide you from near - ushering guides ? LADY . They left me weary on a grassy turf . COMUS . By falsehood , or discourtesy , or why 22 COMUS .
... . you thus ? Dim darkness , and this leafy labyrinth . COMUS . Could that divide you from near - ushering guides ? LADY . They left me weary on a grassy turf . COMUS . By falsehood , or discourtesy , or why 22 COMUS .
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Page 30 - Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse contemplation She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
Page 36 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Page 18 - And in sweet madness robbed it of itself, But such a sacred and home-felt delight, Such sober certainty of waking bliss, I never heard till now.
Page 78 - But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run, Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon.
Page 55 - Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste?
Page 44 - Had ta'en their supper on the savoury herb Of kno.t-grass dew-besprent, and were in fold, I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied, and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle, and began, Wrapt in a pleasing fit of melancholy, To meditate my rural minstrelsy, Till fancy had her fill.
Page 16 - Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night? I did not err: there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.
Page 16 - Sweet echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale Where the love-lorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well: Canst thou not tell me of a gentle pair That likest thy Narcissus are? O, if thou have Hid them in some flowery cave, Tell me but where, Sweet Queen of Parley, Daughter of the Sphere! So may'st thou be translated to the skies, And give resounding grace to all Heaven's harmonies!
Page 66 - Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair; Listen, for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save. y Listen, and appear to us, In name of great Oceanus ; By the earth-shaking Neptune's mace, And Tethys...
Page 24 - I saw them under a green mantling vine That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots. Their port was more than human, as they stood ; I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i