 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pages
...nothing sed : But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus; the dread voice is past That shrunk...cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. 135 Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 718 pages
...may subside once more into the Arcadian and elegiac melody in which it had begun. " Return, Alphcus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams. Return,...wanton winds and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes That on tho green turf suck the... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Keightley - 1859 - 492 pages
...Return, ete., ie let us resume the pastoral style. He ealls on Alpheus, as eonneeted with Arethuso. Their bells, and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye...the swart-star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint-enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suek the honeyed showers, uo And purple all the ground... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 pages
...nothing sed : But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk...cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. 135 Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...is past That shrunk thy streams. Return, Sicilian muse And call the vales, and bid them hither cost Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys...wanton 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 the... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...prophetic vision (worthy of Amos or Ezekiel), the poem yet once more drops back to the mode of pastoral: Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk...And call the Vales, and bid them hither cast Their Bels, and Flourets of a thousand hues. [132-35] The power of this long floral offering arises from... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 pages
...two-handed engine110 at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.' Return, Alpheus,"1 the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; return,...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,... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...streams; retum 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...wanton 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... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 pages
...pastoral, Milton added next a twenty-line catalogue of colourful flowers, beginning self-consciously: Return, Alpheus; the dread voice is past That shrunk...cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. (132-5) The flower passage (in the composition of the poem, a happy afterthought) is a pretty art1fice... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - 1996 - 294 pages
...Amaryllis: Return Sicilean Muse, And call the Vales, and bid them hither cast Their Bells and Flowrets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low where the mild...wanton 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 such... | |
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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 flowerets of a thousand hues. 
