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. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... Beauties of the British Poets ... - Page 78by George Croly - 1850 - 395 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...and made no remonstrances against these encroachment«. — T. WABTOÄ. But that two-handed engine at the door '*> Stands ready to smite once, and smite...gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star q sparely looks; Throw hither all your quaint enamel'd eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied... | |
| John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...what the 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...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks ; Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...and nothing said. Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw But that two-handed engine at the door Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck... | |
| David Lester Richardson - Floriculture - 1855 - 296 pages
...hot-bed of corruption. Milton turns his acquaintance with flowers to divine account in his Lycidas. Return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid...cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye vallies low, where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh... | |
| Gardening - 1855 - 494 pages
...Lycidas : " Call the vale«, and bid them hither bring Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hups. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades,...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star rarely looks, llring hither all your quaint, enamelled eyes That on the green turf »uck... | |
| William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1856 - 596 pages
...close, The wonted roar was up amid the woods," &c. How exquisite is every image of this passage : " Return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks ; Throw hither all your quaint enamel'd eyes, That on the green turf suck... | |
| Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said ; But that two-handed engine at ] A# ]xA]rl Y8 f + 7 v u @ xw tD V] 1 Sa\ mԄ ڮ #...' M eC pu zT v o b2& H @ s 1 B c x z ~ Y flow'reta of a thousand huea. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...But that two-handed engine at the door I'M Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. ^efRetum, Alpheus; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams;...cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. 135 Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On... | |
| Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...complains that we are slow ; And Scipio's ghost walks unrevenged amongst us ! ADDISON. 120 FLOWERS. YE valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades,...swart-star sparely looks ; Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, That on the green turf suck the honey'd showers, And purple all the ground with vernal... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...ffippotadea—JEalus, the son of Hippotas, the fahulous king of the winds. (4) Panope— a sea-nymph. And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their...thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use1 Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star2 sparely looks,... | |
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