 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more. To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore ; Or whether (as some sages sing) The frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr with Aurora playing, As he met her once a Maying ; There, on beds of violets blue, And fresh- blown roses washed in dew, Filled her vith thee,... | |
 | English poetry - 1856 - 754 pages
...men, heart- easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus, at a birth With two sister Graces more, To ivy - crowned Bacchus bore ; Or whether (as some sager sing) The...once a-maying, There on beds of violets blue, And fresh -blown roses, wash't in dew, Fill'd her with thee, a daughter. fair, So buxom, blithe and debonair.... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...Venus, at a birth With two sister graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore ; Or whether (as some sages us orbs, Through which his long ellipsis winds ; perhaps...worlds, and feed the eternal fire. CONCLUDING APOSTR washed in dew, Filled her with thee a daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and* debonair. Haste thee, nymph,... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 578 pages
...Venus, at a birth With two sistiT graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore ; Or whether (as some sages reproach pursue, And strangers tell of« three times skimmed viólete blue, And fresh-blown roses washed in dew, Filled her with thee a daughter fair, So buxom,... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 pages
...he met her once a maying, There on beds of violets blue, And fresh-blown roses washed in dew, Filled her with thee a daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and...nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful jollity, Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek,... | |
 | William Dowling - Literary landmarks - 1857 - 412 pages
...Venus, at a birth, With two sister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore ; Or whether (as some sages sing) The frolic wind, that breathes the spring, Zephyr, with Aurora playing, As he met her once a- May ing ; There on beds of violets blue And fresh-blown roses, wash'd in dew, Fill'd her with thee,... | |
 | 1858 - 460 pages
...Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore ; Or whether (as some sages sing) The frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr with Aurora playing, As he met her once a Maying ; There, on beds of violets blue, And fresh- blown roses washed in dew, Filled her ivith thee,... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Theater - 1859 - 474 pages
...and questionable, and tries the court poets at their own weapons, — " Or whether, (as some sages sing,) The frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr...There on beds of violets blue, And fresh-blown roses washed in dew "• • but why quote what all the world knows ? — Where shall we find such real mirth,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 pages
...Venus at a birth, With two sister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore ; Or whether (as some sager3 sing) The frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr,...There on beds of violets blue, And fresh-blown roses washed in dew, Filled her with thee, a daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Haste thee, Nymph,... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1859 - 104 pages
...yclep'd Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth, With two sister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore ; Or whether (as...spring, Zephyr with Aurora playing, As he met her once a maying, There on beds of violets blue, And fresh-blown roses wash'd in dew, Fill'd her with thee... | |
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Euphrosyne, And by men heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus, at a birth With two sister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore ; Or whether — as some sager sing — The frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr, with Aurora playing As he met her... 
