 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...a birth With two sister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore : Or whether (as some sager sing) The frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr with Aurora playing, As he met her once a-Maying, There on beds of violets blue, And fresh-blown roses washed in dew, Filled... | |
 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1852 - 528 pages
...of spring. It also had the name of Zephyrus, or Zephyr. Milton thus writes of it in his Allegro. " The frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr with Aurora playing As he met her once a Maying, &c." , 244. Notions : Fanciful things. It seems that the phrase Yankee notions... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...at a birth Whit two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore; Or whether (as some sages sing) The frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr with Aurora playing, As he met her once a-maying, There on beds of violets blue, And fresh-blown roses wash't in dew, Fill'd... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...a birth, With two sister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore: Or whether (as some sager sing) Tore through my entrails, that with fear and pair, Distorted, all my neth he met her once a-maying ; There on beds of violets blue, And fresh-blown roses wash'd in dew, Fill'd... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 424 pages
...a birth, With two sister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore : Or whether (as some sages sing) The frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr, with Aurora playing, As he met her once a- May ing, There, on beds of violets blue, And fresh-blown roses wash'd in dew, Fill'd... | |
 | John Milton, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 376 pages
...birth, With two sister Graces2 more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore : Or whether (as some sager sing) The frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr, with Aurora playing, As he met her once a-Maying ; There on beds of violets blue, And fresh-blown roses wash'd in dew, Fill'd... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...birth, With two sister Graces2 more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore : Or whether (as some sager sing) The frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr, with Aurora playing, As he met her once a-Maying ; There on beds of violets blue, And fresh-blown roses wash'd in dew, Fill'd... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore : Or whether (as some sages sing) The frolic wind that breathes the spring. Zephyr, with Aurora playing, As lie met her once a-maying, There on beds of violets blue, And fresh-blown roses wash d in dew, Pill'd... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...u birth, With two sister-graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore, Or whether (as some sages sing) The frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr, with Aurora playing, As he met her once a-maying, There on beds of violets blue, And fresh blown roses washed in dew, Filled... | |
 | English literature - 1855 - 604 pages
...questionable, and tries the court poets at their own weapons, — " Or whether, (as some sages sing,) The frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr with Aurora playing, As he met her once a-maying, There on beds of violets blue, And fresh-blown roses washed in dew" but why... | |
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Whom lovely Venus, at a birth, With two sister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore ; Or whether (as some sager sing) The frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr, with Aurora playing, As he met her once a-Maying... 
