 | English poetry - 1788 - 510 pages
...stair To Honour's seat, and Chastity's sweet bowre. Why stand ye still, ye virgins ! in amaze, iSi Upon her so to gaze ; Whiles ye forget your former...and your eccho ring. " But if ye saw that which no eyes can see, 185 The inward beauty of her lively spright, Garnish'd with heavenly gifts of high degree,... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...her body like a palace fair, Ascending up with many a stately stair To Honour's seat, and Chastity's sweet bowre. Why stand ye still, ye virgins ! in amaze,...To which the woods did answer, and your eccho ring. D3 " But if ye saw that which no eyes can see, The inward beauty of her lively spright, Garnish'd with... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 600 pages
...to a marble towre ; And all her body like a pallace fayre, Ascending up, with many a stately stayre, r that thou be in place: * al re, Though conquered...lye on lowly land ; And, whitest him fortune favour yc forget your former lay to sing, To which the woods did answer,and your ecchoring ? BUT if ye saw... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 610 pages
...pallace fayre. Ascending up, with many a stately «tayre, To Honors scat and Chastities gweet buwre. Why stand ye still ye virgins in amaze, Upon her so to gaze, Whiles ye furget your <brmer lay to sing, To which the woods did answer,and your eccho ring ? BUT if ye saw that... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 420 pages
...to a marble towre; And all her body like a pallaee fayre, Aseending up with many a stately stayre, To Honors seat and Chastities sweet bowre. Why stand ye still ye virgins in amaze, I : pon her so to gaze, Whiles ye forget your former lay to sing, To whieh the woods did answer, and... | |
 | 1825 - 364 pages
...marble towre, And all her body like a palace fair, Ascending up, with many a stately stair, To honour's seat, and chastities sweet bowre :— Why stand ye...lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your echo ring." The four hymns in honour of love and beauty were published in 1596, and were dedicated... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1825 - 370 pages
...palace fair, Ascending up, with many a stately stair, To honour's seat, and chastities sweet bo wre: — Why stand ye still, ye virgins, in amaze, Upon her...lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your echo ring." The four hymns in honour of love and beauty were published in 1596, and were dedicated... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...seat, and Chastity's sweet bowro. Why stand ye still, ye virgins ! in amaze, Upon her so to gaze s liam C. Hall eyes can see, The inward beauty of her lively spright, Garnish'd with heavenly gifts of high degree,... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1825 - 450 pages
...pallace fayre, Ascending np, with many a stately stayre, To Honors seat and Chastities sweet bowre. 1 80 Why stand ye still ye Virgins in amaze, Upon her so...and your eccho ring ? But if ye saw that which no eyes can see, 185 The inward beauty of her lively spright, Garnisht with heavenly guifts of high degree,... | |
 | Books - 1825 - 368 pages
...marble towre, And all her body like a palace fair, Ascending up, with many a stately stair, To honour's seat, and chastities sweet bowre :— Why stand ye...lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your echo ring." The four hymns in honour of love and beauty were published in 1596, and were dedicated... | |
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Why stand ye still ye virgins in amaze, Upon her so to gaze, Whiles ye forget your former lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your eccho ring... 
