 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...incline ; And I shall see, by that one kiss, The water turned to wine. llERIUCK. 404 COM us. COMUS, — THE star that bids the shepherd fold, Now the top...doth hold, And the gilded car of day His glowing axle cloth allay In the steep Atlantic stream, And the slope sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 344 pages
...apparel glistering ; they come in making a riotous and unruly noise, with torches in their hands. COMUS. The star that bids the shepherd fold, Now the top of heaven doth hold ; And the gilded car of day 95 His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream ; And the slope sun his upward beam Shoots... | |
 | Raymond Dexter Havens - English poetry - 1922 - 746 pages
...Lea. Or those green isles, where headlong Titan steeps His hissing axle in tli" Atlantic deeps. A nd the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay In the sleep Atlantic stream. Mean time the vig'rous dancers beat the ground. Come, knit hands, and beat the... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...apparel glistering. They come in making a riotous and unruly noise, with torches in their hands. Comus. The star that bids the shepherd fold Now the top of...Meanwhile, welcome joy and feast, Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity. Braid your locks with rosy twine, Dropping odours, dropping wine.... | |
 | Samuel Bamford, W. H. Chaloner - Biography & Autobiography - 1967 - 602 pages
...latter stiff and erect in a glearny light. " Is it deep neet ? " said Bangle. " It is," said Plant. " The star that bids the shepherd fold,' Now the top of heaven doth hold." And they drew near. All was still, and motionless. Plant knelt on one knee, and held his dish under the... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Chivalry - 1913 - 972 pages
...of rising in the east. Milton alludes to this in his "Comus": "Now the gilded car of day His golden axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream, And...upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole, Pacing towards the other goal Of his chamber in the east." The abode of the gods was on the summit of Mount... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...almost tipsily, in its tones of revelry: The star that bids the shepherd fold, Now the top of heav'n doth hold; And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream, . . . Meanwhile, welcome joy and feast, Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity. . . .... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1986 - 260 pages
...to contradictory or paradoxical impulses. His images of fulfillment, containment, rest and recovery ("the gilded Car of Day, / His glowing Axle doth allay / In the steep Atlantick stream") are intercepted by the contrary rhythms of "midnight shout and revelry / Tipsie... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...save. OAEL-1; OBS 307 POETRY QUOTATIONS 8 The Star that bids the Shepherd fold, Now the top of Heav'n st, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simo Atlantick stream, (1. 1—5) FaBoCh; FiP; NOBE; OAEL-1; OBEV; OBS; TrGrPo 9 Sweet Echo, sweetest Nymph... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...noise, with Torches in their hands. Comus. The Star that bids the Shepherd fold, Now the top ofHeav'n doth hold, And the gilded Car of Day, His glowing Axle doth allay In the sleep Atlantick slream, And the slope Sun his upward beam Shoots againsl the dusky Pole, Pacing toward... | |
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The star that bids the shepherd fold Now the top of heaven doth hold ; And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream : And the slope sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole, Pacing toward the other goal Of... 
