 ... fair, Or the green corners of the earth, Or the blue regions of the air Where the melodious winds have birth; Whether on crystal rocks ye rove, Beneath the bosom of the sea, Wandering in many a coral grove; Fair Nine, forsaking Poetry; How have you...  The Quarterly Review - Page 91865Full view - About this book
 | Fashion - 740 pages
...grove, Fair Nine, forsaking Poetry ; " How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you ! The languid strings do scarcely move, The sound is forced, the notes are few." Whereabouts in its Elegant Extracts would a generation that strung together sonorous couplets, and... | |
 | Fashion - 1867 - 738 pages
...grove, Fair Nine, forsaking Poetry ; " How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you ! The languid strings do scarcely move, The sound is forced, the notes arc few." Whereabouts in its Elegant Extracts would a generation that strung together sonorous couplets,... | |
 | Literature - 1867 - 746 pages
...grove, Fair Nine, forsaking Poetry ; " How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you ! The languid strings do scarcely move, The sound is forced, the notes are few." Whereabouts in its Elegant Extracts would a generation that strung together sonorous couplets, and... | |
 | Alexander Gilchrist, Anne Burrows Gilchrist - Artists - 1863 - 366 pages
...grove ; Fair Nine, forsaking Poetry ; How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoy'd in you ! The languid strings do scarcely move, The sound is forced, the notes are few. TO THE EVENING STAR. THOU fair-hair'd angel of the Evening, Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains,... | |
 | English literature - 1865 - 600 pages
...coral grove ; Fair Nino, forsaking Poetry; How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoy'd in you ! The languid strings do scarcely move, The...through the 'Songs of Innocence' (1789), the 'Songs at waadL ••nrii''ir a. torrent irmnn ITH^I : n A ^j?r? lad it ni»-..n;T:c. IK: c -nnu.rmi: spiritual... | |
 | Gail Hamilton - American essays - 1865 - 461 pages
...grove, Fair Nine, forsaking Poetry ; " How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you ! The languid strings do scarcely move, The sound is forced, the notes are few." Whereabouts in its Elegant Extracts would a generation that strung together sonorous couplets, and... | |
 | Gail Hamilton - American essays - 1865 - 468 pages
...grove, Fair Nine, forsaking Poetry ; " How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you ! The languid strings do scarcely move, The sound is forced, the notes are few." Whereabouts in its Elegant Extracts would a generation that strung ^together sonorous couplets, and... | |
 | William Blake - 1868 - 120 pages
...coral grove, Fair Nine, forsaking Poetry ; How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoy'd in you ! The languid strings do scarcely move, The sound is forced, the notes are few ! GWIN, KING OF NORWAY. COME, Kings, and listen to my song : When Gwin, the son of Nore, Over the nations... | |
 | William Blake - 1874 - 194 pages
...coral grove, Fair Nine, forsaking Poetry ! How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoy'd in you ! The languid strings do scarcely move, The sound is forced, the notes are few ! GWIN, KING OF NORWAY. COME, Kings, and listen to my song : When Gwin, the son of Nore, Over the nations... | |
 | 1875 - 782 pages
...grove ; Fair Nine, forsaking Poetry, " How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you ! The languid strings do scarcely move, The sound is forced, the notes are few ! " At the time these lines were written Blake was not over twenty years old. He was the son of poor... | |
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