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" Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. "
The Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 278
by John Milton - 1834 - 392 pages
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Lectures on the English Poets

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1849 - 290 pages
...already familiar with it. It is the passage which contains that exquisite description of the flowers : " Return, Alpheus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flo w'rcts of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds...
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The Beauties of the British Poets: With a Few Introductory Observations

George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 428 pages
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Beauties of the British Poets ...

George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...wolf with privy paw. Daily devours apace, and nothing said, But that two-handed engine ut the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return,...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,...
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Poetical Works

John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing fed: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return,...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,...
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The Works of the British Poets, Selected and Chronologically Arranged ...

English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed : But that two-handed engine at the door I30 e re flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1852 - 424 pages
...wolf, with privy paw, Daily devours apace, and nothing said : But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to, smite once, and smite no more." Return,...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,...
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Guy's new speaker, selections of poetry and prose from the best writers in ...

Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...said : But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Eeturn, Alpheus ; the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 3

John Milton - 1853 - 344 pages
...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said ; But that two-handed engine at the door isc Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return,...use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, 124 Grate] Virg. Eel. iii. 26. ' solebus Strident! miserum stipula dispendere carmen.' Newton. 125...
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Poets of England and America: Being Selections from the Best Authors of Both ...

Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
..." But that two-handed engine at the door " Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Keturn, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,...
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Milton's Poetical Works: With Life, Critical ..., Page 109, Volume 2

John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...that two-handed engine* at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alpheus,6 the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ;...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use 1 ' The pilot : ' Peter.—2...
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