 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...a birth, With two sister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore ; Or whether (as some sages sing) u rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself he met her once a-Maying, — There, on beds of violets blue And fresh-blown roses washed in dew, Filled... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1872 - 420 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-Maying, There, on beds of violets blue, And fresh-blown roses washed in dew, Filled... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Theater - 1873 - 366 pages
...and questionable, and tries the Court poets at their own weapons,— 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 but why... | |
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 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, Fill'd... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 518 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, 20 There, on beds of violets blue, And fresh-blown roses washed in dew, Filled... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 758 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 ; 20 There on beds of violets blue, And fresh-blown roses wash'd in dew, Fill'd... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...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, There on beds of violets blue, And fresh-blown roses washed in dew, Filled... | |
 | David A. Kent, D. R. Ewen - English literature - 1992 - 428 pages
...inclined to the latter of the two, we will even suppose it so to be. 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, &c. Some... | |
 | Raymond W. Bernard - 1994 - 136 pages
...fieri sin conjuge mater, Et parere ibtacto modo castra, viro? Ovid. Fast. 5. Or as other authors sing, "The frolic wind that breathes the spring Zephyr with Aurora playing As he met her once a maying Fill'd her with thee a daughter fair So buxom blithe and debonnair. Milton's... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - History - 1996 - 294 pages
...complicating any easy distinction between the two figures. She too was conceived through illicit sexuality ("The frolic Wind that breathes the Spring, / Zephyr with Aurora playing / As he met her once a-Maying" [11. 18-20]), and both are conceived in nature. Zephyr coupled with Aurora... | |
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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... 
