And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through... Scraps. [An anthology, ed.] by H. Jenkins - Page 427edited by - 1864Full view - About this book
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever against eating cares, Lap me in sofi Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the...That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumbers on a bed Of heap'dElysian flowers and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto,... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 372 pages
...airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce , In notes with many a ieinding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. With wanton...That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumbers on a bed Of heap' d Elysian flowers and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto,... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness lone; drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The...That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumbers on a bed Of heap'dElysian flowers and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto,... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness lone, drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The...That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumbers on a bed Of heap'dElysian flowers and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto,... | |
| 1846 - 436 pages
...haunted stream. Then to the well trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild....may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heaped Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto to have set quite... | |
| Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, fancy's child, Warble his native wood notes wild. And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. The remark of Dr. Johnson, that... | |
| Gem book - 1846 - 398 pages
...ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lyilian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the melting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout...That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumbers on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto,... | |
| John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus...The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus' self may have his head, From golden slumber, on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains, as would... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspcare, . Lay a garland on my hearse of the dismal yew. r.ruil....Say I die* true. My love was false, but I was firm, slumbers on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such »trains as would hare won the ear Of Pluto,... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In note.-, ace, Doubling the native terror of hell's face ; Rivers...chains was known, The souls amidst their tortures trom golden slumbers on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the... | |
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