 | Mary Wilder Tileston - American poetry - 1881 - 210 pages
...anthem sing, That all the woods may answer, and their echo ring. Epithalamion. 147 Behold ! whiles she before the altar stands, Hearing the holy priest that to her speaks, And blesseth her with his two happy hands, How the red roses flush into her cheeks, And the pure snow with... | |
 | Anna Buckland - English literature - 1882 - 548 pages
...choristers the joyous anthem sing, That all the woods may answer, and their echoes ring. " Behold, whiles she before the altar stands, Hearing the holy priest...pure snow with goodly vermeil stain, Like crimson dyed in grain ; That even the angels, which continually About the sacred altar do remain, Forget their... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1882 - 1002 pages
...choristers the joyous anthem sing, That all the woods may answer, aud their echo ring. Behold, whiles even to the edge of doom. If tliU be error, and upon...proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. CXLVI. dyed in grain : That even the angels, which continually About the sacred altar do reruaiu, Forget their... | |
 | Mary Cowden Clarke - Women - 1858 - 484 pages
...attendant hovering angel. Like Edmund Spenser's bride, in his own perfect Epithala" Behold, whiles she before the altar stands, Hearing the holy priest...flush up in her cheeks ! And the pure snow with goodly vermil stain, Like crimsin died in grain, That even the angels, which continually About the sacred... | |
 | American essays - 1868 - 798 pages
...the holy priest that to her speak*. Ami Ues-eth her with his two hnppy hands, How the red roses flu^h up in her cheeks, And the pure snow with goodly vermeil stain Like crimson dyeJ in grain : That even the angel.--, uli'Ji continually About the sacred altar do remain, Forget... | |
 | Jon Stallworthy - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 422 pages
...Choristers the joyous Antheme sing, That al the woods may answere and their eccho ring. Behold whiles she before the altar stands Hearing the holy priest that to her speakes And blesseth her with his two happy hands, How the red roses flush up in her cheekes, And the... | |
 | Poetry - 460 pages
...Behold, whiles she before the altar stands, Hearing the holy priest that to her speaks And blesscth her with his two happy hands, How the red roses flush up in her checks. And the pure snow with goodly vcrmil stain, Like crimson dyed in grain; That even the angels,... | |
 | American essays - 1861 - 792 pages
...exclamations were ecstatic. How often have I in after-times heard him quote these lines : — " Behold, whiles she before the altar stands, Hearing the holy priest...with his two happy hands, How the red roses flush up iu her cheeks! And the pure snow, with goodly vernal stain, Like crimson dyed in grain, That even the... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...choristers the joyous anthem sing, That all the woods may answer and their echo ring. Behold whiles she before the altar stands. Hearing the holy priest that to her speaks And hlesseth her with his two happy hands, How the red roses flush up in her checks, And the pure snow... | |
 | Andrew Carpenter - History - 2003 - 628 pages
...Behold, whiles she before the altar stands Hearing the holy priest that to her speakes And blesseth her with his two happy hands. How the red roses flush up in her cheekes. And the pure snow with goodly vermill 47 stayne. Like crimsin dyde in grayne, 4 * That even... | |
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And blesses her with his two happy hands, How the red roses flush up in her cheeks, And the pure snow with goodly vermeil stain, Like crimson dyed in grain... 
