The elegies of Propertius, tr. into Engl. verse by C.R. Moore |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 19
Page 10
... To ban thy voyage , and call thee back to land ! Yet no , false girl ! frail , fleeting though thou be , May Galatea ever prosper thee ! Till dark Ceraunia's cliffs be safely past , And Oricos 10 [ BOOK I. PROPERTIUS .
... To ban thy voyage , and call thee back to land ! Yet no , false girl ! frail , fleeting though thou be , May Galatea ever prosper thee ! Till dark Ceraunia's cliffs be safely past , And Oricos 10 [ BOOK I. PROPERTIUS .
Page 16
... False friend , be never maiden false to thee . Boast then thy conquests over maidens won , In love's allegiance constant still to none . Now madly love but one , grow pale , and yield , And at the earliest onset quit the field . Thy ...
... False friend , be never maiden false to thee . Boast then thy conquests over maidens won , In love's allegiance constant still to none . Now madly love but one , grow pale , and yield , And at the earliest onset quit the field . Thy ...
Page 19
... false thy words , thou didst invoke The blasting vengeance of the lightning stroke , Eyes , thou couldst dare to raise to Heaven above , Without a fear thy guilty heart to move ; Thou canst not say I made thee feign those fears , And ...
... false thy words , thou didst invoke The blasting vengeance of the lightning stroke , Eyes , thou couldst dare to raise to Heaven above , Without a fear thy guilty heart to move ; Thou canst not say I made thee feign those fears , And ...
Page 21
... false thing , I turn'd thy bars before , To fix by stealth on thee the gifts I bore . " Such cries of disappointed love I hear , Cries that outbawl the note of chanticleer ; My mistress wantons and her lovers whine- Ah me ! perpetual ...
... false thing , I turn'd thy bars before , To fix by stealth on thee the gifts I bore . " Such cries of disappointed love I hear , Cries that outbawl the note of chanticleer ; My mistress wantons and her lovers whine- Ah me ! perpetual ...
Page 23
... falsely , let me never hear Thy own dear fickle footfall drawing near . My grief owes all its bitterness to thee , Yet Anger's self so cruel could not be . I could not give thee cause for jealous fears , Or dim those lustrous eyes with ...
... falsely , let me never hear Thy own dear fickle footfall drawing near . My grief owes all its bitterness to thee , Yet Anger's self so cruel could not be . I could not give thee cause for jealous fears , Or dim those lustrous eyes with ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
arms bade beauty beneath Bishop bliss Boötes bore Brasenose College breast brow Cæsar Callimachus Cambridge canst charm Cheltenham College Church Church of England Crown 8vo Cynthia dark death Dost E'en e'er Edward Meyrick Goulburn eyes fair fall false fame fate fear fire golden hair hear heart Heaven Henry Parry Liddon Holy John Henry Blunt Jove late Fellow Lecturer life's London Lord love's lovers lyre maid maidens mark'd Merton College methinks Muses ne'er never night nought o'er once Oxford Phoebus poor prayers Propertius roam Roman Rome Sackville College Second Edition Sermons shade shame shore shrine sing sleep Small 8vo soft song spurn stern stream tale Tarpeia tears tell thee thine thou art thou wilt throng tomb Trinity College Twas Venus wave weary weep wilt thou wine woo'd wouldst wrath yield yore
Popular passages
Page 17 - SCRIPTURES, &c. The Cambridge Paragraph Bible of the Authorized English Version, with the Text revised by a Collation of its Early and other Principal Editions...
Page 2 - The Priest to the Altar ; or, Aids to the Devout Celebration of Holy Communion ; chiefly after the Ancient Use of Sarum. Second Edition. Enlarged, Revised, and Re-arranged with the Secretae, Post-Communion, &c., appended to the Collects, Epistles, and Gospels, throughout the Year.
Page 10 - The Prayer Book Interleaved; with Historical Illustrations and Explanatory Notes arranged parallel to the Text, by the Rev. WM Campion, BD, Fellow and Tutor of Queens
Page 9 - THE ANNOTATED BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER : being an Historical, Ritual, and Theological Commentary on the Devotional System of the Church of England.
Page 18 - Yesterday, To-day, and For Ever: a Poem in Twelve Books. By Edward Henry Bickersteth, MA, Incumbent of Christ Church, Hampstead, and Chaplain to the Bishop of Ripon.
Page 2 - Newman's (JH) Parochial and Plain Sermons. Edited by the Rev. WJ Copeland, Rector of Farnham, Essex. From the Text of the last Editions published by Messrs. Rivington.
Page 4 - The Guide to Heaven:. a Book of Prayers for every want. (For the Working Classes.) Compiled by a Priest.
Page 18 - SACRED ALLEGORIES. The Shadow of the Cross —The Distant Hills— The Old Man's Home — The King's Messengers. By the Rev. WILLIAM ADAMS, MA, late Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.
Page 4 - Augustin. A DOMINICAN ARTIST : a Sketch of the Life of the Rev. Pere Besson, of the Order of St. Dominic.
Page 30 - HORATI OPERA, Edited by JM MARSHALL, MA Fellow and late Lecturer of Brasenose College, Oxford ; one of the Masters in Clifton College.