 | Charles Stuart Calverley - Classical poetry - 1862 - 220 pages
...nullo? 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 Te valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...privy paw But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus; the dread voice is past That shrunk...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. 135 Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 438 pages
...nothing said : — But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.' Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk...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,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 738 pages
...Where the bright seraphim, in burning row, Their louri-uplifted angel-trumpets blow. 2. Lycidas. 3. ïe valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades,...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks, Throw hither ail your quaint cnamcl'd eyes, That on the green turf suck the... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 pages
...nothing said ; But that two-handed engine at the door, 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus ! the dread voice is past, That shrunk...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,... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...prophetic vision (worthy of Amos or Ezekiel), the poem yet once more drops back to the mode of pastoral: Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk...And call the Vales, and bid them hither cast Their Bels, and Flourets of a thousand hues. [132-35] The power of this long floral offering arises from... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...smite once, and smite no more." Retum Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; retum Sicilian Muse. And call the vales, and bid them hither...cast Their bells and flowrets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low where the mild whispers use. Of shades and wanton winds and gushing brooks. On whose... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...pastoral, Milton added next a twenty-line catalogue of colourful flowers, beginning self-consciously: Return, Alpheus; the dread voice is past That shrunk...the vales and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. (132-5) The flower passage (in the composition of the poem, a happy afterthought)... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - History - 1996 - 294 pages
...unworldly pastoral fantasy in which nothing exists except flowers, not even Amaryllis: Return Sicilean Muse, And call the Vales, and bid them hither cast Their Bells and Flowrets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds and gushing brooks, On whose... | |
 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...the door Stands ready to smite once, and smites no more." Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is pass'd That shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse, And...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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Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use, Of shades and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint... 
