 Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come; but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing...  McGuffey's New Eclectic Speaker: Containing about Three Hundred Exercises ... - Page 486by William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 504 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1782 - 40 pages
...grove, While yet there was no fear of Jove. 3o Come pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, stedfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train And sable stole of Cypreß lawn, 35 Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step,... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...grove, While yet there was no fear of Jove. 30 Come pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, stedfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of Cyprus lawn, 35Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Warton - English drama - 1799 - 148 pages
...inmost grove, While yet there was no fear of Jove. Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, stedfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of Cyprus lawn, • Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step,... | |
 | Peter Pindar - English poetry - 1804 - 180 pages
...devout and pure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of Cyprus lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep...with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes; There held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast Thou... | |
 | American literature - 1804 - 496 pages
...thus described : All in a robe of darkest graia Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of Cyprus lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come but keep...state, With even step and musing gait, And looks, commencing with the skies. Thy rapt soul sitting in thy eyes. There held in holy passion still Forge:... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...grove , W'hile yet there was no fear of Jove. Come , pensive nun , devout and pure , Sober , stedfast and demure , All in a robe of darkest grain , Flowing...with majestic train , And sable stole of cypress lawn , O'er thy decend shoulders drawn. Come , but keep thy wonted state , With even step , and musing gait,... | |
 | John Wolcot - English poetry - 1804 - 180 pages
...inmost grove, While yet there was no fear of JOVE. Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, stedfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of Cyprus lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, M'ith even step, and... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove. While yet there was no fear of Jove. Come, pensive nun, devote and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe...darkest grain. Flowing with majestic train, And sable slole of Cyprus lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, bul keep thy wonted state, \Vuh even step... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...inmost grove, While yet there was no fear of Jove. Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, stedfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress-lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...inmost grove, While yet there was no fear of Jove. Come pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, stedfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of Cyprus lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and... | |
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