 But hail! thou Goddess sage and holy! Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's...  Beauties of the British Poets ... - Page 68by George Croly - 1850 - 395 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy I Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense...esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...people the sunbeams, Or likest hov'ring dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy ! Hail divinest Melancholy...esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen, that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their pow'rs... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...dreams, The tickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. UNI hail, thou goddess, sage and holy! Hall, dirlnest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To...praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended : Yet then art higher far descended ; Thee bright-haired Vesta long of yore To solitary Saturn bore;... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. 10 But hail thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy,...sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view is O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. 10 But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, cHvincst Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To...sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view 15 O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; . Black, but snch as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...people the sunbeams; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy...beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen* that strove To set het beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended : Yet thou art higher far descended... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy,...sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'relaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. 10 But hail thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy,...sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view 15 O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...the sunbeams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy...esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...the sunbeams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy...of human sight, And therefore to our, weaker view O'eriaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
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