 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
 | Half hours - 1856 - 456 pages
...of a still more advanced season. The passage to which the objection applies is the following : — " Ye Valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades,...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, That on the green turf suck... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 454 pages
...When first the white-thorn blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear. * * * * # * * * Eeturn, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither...swart^star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, That on the green turf suck the honeyed showers, And purple all the ground with vernal... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 448 pages
...When first the white-thorn blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear. * * * * * * * * Eeturn, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither...swart-star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, That on the green turf suck the honeyed showers, And purple all the ground with vernal... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...two-handed engine110 at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.' Return, Alpheus,"1 the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; return,...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,... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...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...wanton winds and gushing brooks. On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks. Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, That on the green turf suck... | |
 | 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...cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. (132-5) The flower passage (in the composition of the poem, a happy afterthought) is a pretty art1fice... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - History - 1996 - 294 pages
...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...wanton winds and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart Star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, That on the green turf such... | |
 | 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...wanton 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 the... | |
 | Kent Gramm - History - 2001 - 350 pages
...what the grim 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...Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk they streams; Return Sicilian Muse, And call the Vales, and bid them hither case Their Bells and Flowrets... | |
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