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" 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 flowrets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds and... "
The British Poets: Including Translations ... - Page 238
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The Beauties of the British Poets, with a Few Introductory Observations

George Croly - 1854 - 426 pages
...at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And...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,...
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The Miscellaneous Works, Volume 2

William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 pages
...which contains that exquisite description of the flowers : " Return, Alphcus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flow'rcts of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds...
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De Mowbray, a legend, and other poems

James Flockhart - 1854 - 156 pages
...Eura mihi et rigui placeant in vallibus omnes, Flumina amem silrasque inglorius." VIEOIL. No. I. ' call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flow'rets of a thousand hues." MILTON. I LOVE the early flowers of Spring, When first they smile in beauty gay ; I love the lark when,...
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Flowers and Flower-gardens

David Lester Richardson - 1855 - 296 pages
...And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye vallies low, where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton...swart-star sparely looks ; Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...; ° 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...gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star q sparely looks; Throw hither all your quaint enamel'd eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied...
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Cottage Gardener and Country Gentleman's Companion, Volume 14

1855 - 494 pages
...Lycidas : " Call the vale«, and bid them hither bring Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hups. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades,...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star rarely looks, llring hither all your quaint, enamelled eyes That on the green turf »uck...
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The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton: With Life ...

John Milton - 1855 - 564 pages
...the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And...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,...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: A New Edition Carefully Revised from the ...

John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...wolf with privy paw But that two-handed engine at the door Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams; return Sicilian muse, And...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,...
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Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Volume 1

William Howitt - 1856 - 596 pages
...: " 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...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks ; Throw hither all your quaint enamel'd eyes, That on the green turf suck...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 1

Half hours - 1856 - 456 pages
...of a still more advanced season. The passage to which the objection applies is the following : — " Ye Valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades,...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, That on the green turf suck...
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