I hung it o'er my thoughtless brow , And ah ! I feel its magic now ! I feel that even his garland's touch Can make the bosom love too much ! ODE II. Odes of Anacreon - Page 38by Anacreon - 1804Full view - About this book
| Anacreon - 1803 - 232 pages
...thought in one of his Ef amx», where he fpeaki «f the jarlaiul which he I hung it o'er my thoughtlefs brow, And ah ! I feel its magic now ! I feel that even his garland's touch Can make the bofom love 'too much ! be had fent to hit miflrefs. EI at (JaXn ,n ifiXsn ^af^sfSm, T* >.=il,*vi..... | |
| Anacreon - Classical literature - 1804 - 310 pages
...thereon didst only breathe, " And sent it back to me ; " Since when it looks and smells, I swear, 49 I hung it o'er my thoughtless brow, And ah! I feel...garland's touch Can make the bosom love too much! And ah ! I feel its magic now .'] This idea, as Longepierre remarks, is in an epigram of the seventh... | |
| Scottish songs - 1816 - 320 pages
...a rosy wreath, Not so much hon'ring thee, As giving it a hope, that there It would not wither'd be. But thou thereon didst only breathe, And sent it back to me; Since when, it grows and smells, I swear, Not of itself, but thee. WE BRETHREN FREE MASONS. WE brethren Free-Masons,... | |
| England - 1882 - 870 pages
...not only to souls. One does not object when Ben Jonson sings, — " I sent thee late a rosy wreathe. But thou thereon didst only breathe, And sent it back to me. Since which it grows and smells, I swe»r, Not of itself, but thee,"— because Martial had more tersely... | |
| Anacreon - 1820 - 196 pages
...conceit is borrowed (as the author of the Observer remarks) in a well-known little song of Ben Jouson's. I hung it o'er my thoughtless brow, And ah ! I feel...the bosom love too much ! " But thou -thereon didst ouly breathe, And sent it back to me ; Since when it looks and smells, I swear, Not of itself, but... | |
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1821 - 542 pages
...wanton twine, It breath'd of him and blush'd with wine ! I hung it o'er my thoughtless brow, And ah ! 1 feel its magic now ! I feel that even his garland's touch Can make the bosom love too much ! As she concluded she placed a wreath of roses upon the head of the enraptured bard. He pressed her... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1823 - 378 pages
...back the remains of the garland, no longer breathing of roses only, but of thee ! " Which pretty conI hung it o'er my thoughtless brow, And ah ! I feel...his garland's touch Can make the bosom love too much ! crit is borrowed (as the author of the Observer remarks) in a well-known little song of Ben Jonson's:... | |
| Thomas Moore - Irish literature - 1825 - 332 pages
...of the garland, no longer hreathing of. ODES OP ANACREON. 39 it o'er my thoughtless hroir, And alt ! I feel its magic now ! I feel that even his garland's touch Can make the hosom love too much ! ODE II. GIVE me the harp of epic song, Which Homer's finger thrill'd along; But... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1829 - 456 pages
...of many a wanton hue; I took the braid of wanton twine, It breathed of him and blush'd with wine ! I hung it o'er my thoughtless brow, And ah! I feel...his garland's touch Can make the bosom love too much ! ODE II. GIVE me the harp of epic seag, Which Homer's finger thrill'd along; But tear away the sanguine... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1829 - 470 pages
...wanton twine, It breathed of him and blush'd with wine! I hung it o'er my thoughtless brow, And ah ! 1 feel its magic now ! I feel that even his garland's touch Can make the bosom love loo much ! ODE II. ODES OF ANACREON. GITI me the harp of epic song, Which Homer's anger thrill'd along... | |
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