 Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all armed ; a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west; And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts: But I might see young Cupid's fiery...  Notes and Queries - Page 2031867Full view - About this book
 | Richard Davey - London (England) - 1906 - 718 pages
...west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free." That she was really... | |
 | Charles Jasper Sisson - 1910 - 124 pages
...west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts: But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet marked I where... | |
 | Comparative linguistics - 1911 - 558 pages
...ausdruck kommen soll. In Mids. II l, 161 soll nach Franz (s. 324) ebenfalls might für could stehen: But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon. Could würde hier besagen, dals der pfeil für jeden, der an Oberons stelle stand, auch... | |
 | Love - 1911 - 206 pages
...west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts: But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy free. Yet marked I where... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - Dramatists, English - 1916 - 228 pages
...west, And loosed his love shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts; But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on In maiden meditation, fancy free! Yet marked I where... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - Readers - 1920 - 668 pages
...west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, so As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts; But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon; And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet marked I where... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Athens (Greece) - 1924 - 212 pages
...west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon : And the imperial Vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free... — may, or may not, glance... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - Great Britain - 1924 - 746 pages
...west ; And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free." So much, however,... | |
 | Emma Miller Bolenius - American literature - 1927 - 712 pages
...145 And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it0 should pierce a hundred thousand hearts; But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, 160 In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet marked... | |
 | Georges Auguste Connes - 1927 - 294 pages
...west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts ; But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free." The poets may have been constrained... | |
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