Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all armed ; a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west; And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts: But I might see young Cupid's fiery... Notes and Queries - Page 2031867Full view - About this book
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1814 - 216 pages
...west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial votaress pass'd on, In maiden meditation, fancy free. Yet mark'd I where... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1815 - 186 pages
...And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts: 3ut I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial votaress pass'd on, In maiden meditation, fancy free. •yet mark'd... | |
| Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...West, And loosed his loveshaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts: But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery Moon, And the imperial votress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy free. Yet marked I where... | |
| William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 852 pages
...weet, And loosed his lovcshaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votrcss passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy free. Yet marked I where... | |
| Mrs. Charles Meredith - Botanical illustration - 1836 - 400 pages
...west; And loosed his love shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce an hundred thousand hearts. But I might see young- Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon — And the imperial votress pass'd on In maideu meditation, fancy free ; Yet marked I... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1836 - 554 pages
...west ; And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts ; But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.9 Yet marked I... | |
| Mrs. Charles Meredith - Botanical illustration - 1836 - 400 pages
...And loosed his love shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce an hundred thousand hearts. But 1 might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon— And the Imperial votress pass'd on In maiden meditation, fancy free : Yet marked I where... | |
| David Paul Brown - 1838 - 86 pages
...west, And loosed his love shafts smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts. But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation fancy free. Yet marked I where... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1839 - 550 pages
...west ; And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts ; But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.a Yet marked I... | |
| Robert Charles Winthrop - Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) - 1840 - 64 pages
...And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts ; — But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial votrees passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. ' But Elizabeth... | |
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