Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... Beauties of the British Poets ... - Page 78by George Croly - 1850 - 395 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...CURONOLOGT. — Napoleon Buonaparte died in 1820, at St. Helena. Lachrymal Plovers, from I.ycidas, by Milton. Return, Alpheus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...the grim wolf, with privy paw, Daily devours apace; and nothing said, But that two-handed engine at etend Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend...false mirror held up nature's light; Shew'd erring flow'rets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...Muse, And call the vales, anil bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. 135 Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades,...swart-star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, 139 That on the green-turf suck the honied showers, And purple ail the ground with... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 428 pages
...supposition only embarrasses the passage. Michael's sword " with " huge two-handed sway" is eviReturn Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowrets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 414 pages
...streams ; return Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowrets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks, 135 dently the old Gothic sword of chivalry. This is styled an engine, and... | |
| Classical philology - 1824 - 456 pages
...streams ; return Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowrets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low where the mild...use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, (" Nil nisi triste sonant et sylvas, et pascua, et aniñes, Et liquidi fontes; tua tristia fuñera... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...streams ; return, Sieilian Muse, And eall the vales, and bid them hither east Their bells, and flow'rets swart star rarely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, That on the green turf suek the... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. ' But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowrets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...two-handed engine at the door 1 30 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alphcus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ;...Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Tlieir bells, and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades,... | |
| New elegant extracts - 1827 - 402 pages
...the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.' Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is pass'd That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian .Muse....swartstar sparely looks ; Throw hither all your quaint enamel'd eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal... | |
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