 When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain ; And the brown bright nightingale amorous Is half assuaged for Itylus, For the Thracian...  Halleck's New English Literature - Page 563by Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 647 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - Atalanta (Greek mythology) - 1865 - 176 pages
...give honour, and to mine hounds good speed, And edge to spears, and luck to each man's hand. CHORUS. When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces,...windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain ; And the brown bright nightingale amorous Is half assuaged for Itylus, For the Thracian ships and... | |
 | 1907 - 1184 pages
...wealth of language and classical feeling and beauty of cadence he cannot compare with Swinburne : " When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces,...windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain; And the brown bright nightingale amorous Is half assuaged for Itylus, For the Thracian ships and the... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...Man is ever weary, weary, Waiting for the May ! DENIS FLORENCE MAC-CARTHV. WHEN THE HOUNDS OF SPRING. am Cullen ; And the brown bright nightingale amorous Is half assuaged for Itylus, For the Thracian ships and... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...ever weary, weary, Waiting for the May ! DENIS FLORENCE MAC-CARTHY. WHEN THE HOUNDS OF SPRING. WH EX nd Company Fil Is the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain ; And the brown bright nightingale... | |
 | 1873 - 712 pages
...Scotland is found about them." CHORUS INVOKING ATALANTA TO THE CHASE. FROM SWINBURN'S ATALANTA IN CALYDON. WHEN the hounds of spring are on winter's traces,...windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain ; And the brown bright nightingale amorous Is half assuaged for Itylus, For the Thracian ships and... | |
 | Education - 1874 - 524 pages
...Swinburne's "Atalanta," we have four alternately-corresponding verses of four measures each : — " When the | hounds of | spring are on | winter's |...places With | lisp of | leaves and | ripple of | rain." A dactyl is defined to be a £ measure, with weak secondary accent. The definition, it will be observed,... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1876 - 504 pages
...succeeding chorus, at the height of Swinburne's lyric reach, resolves attention to enchantment : — "When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces,...windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain ; Thebret EnglM refroducteatt eftheanThe choruses. And the brown bright nightingale amorous Is half-assuaged... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...Man is ever weary, weary, Waiting for the May ! DENIS FLORENCE MAC-CARTHY. WHEN THE HOUNDS OF SPRING. WHEN the hounds of spring are on winter's traces,...windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain ; And the brown bright nightingale amorous Is half assuaged for Itylus, For the Thracian ships and... | |
 | Leonard Lloyd - 334 pages
...the drama. The sonorous beauty of the first invocation has never been surpassed in our language : — When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces,...windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain ; And the brown bright nightingale amorous Is half assuaged for Itylus, For the Thracian ships and... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 618 pages
...ever weary, weary, Waiting for the May ! DENIS FLORENCE MAC-CARTHY. WHEN THE HOUNDS OF SPRING. Wn EN the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, The mother...windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain ; And the brown bright nightingale amorous Is half assuaged for Itylns, For the Thracian ships and... | |
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