 | Anacreon - Odes, Greek - 1800 - 304 pages
...The gay Cicada sipping floats ; And drunk with dew his matin sings Sweeter than any cygnet's notes. ODE XXXV. CUPID once, upon a bed Of roses, laid his...urchin, not to see Within the leaves a slumbering beeTheocritus has imitated this beautiful ode in his nineteenth idyll, but is very inferior, I think,... | |
 | Anacreon - Greek poetry - 1804 - 194 pages
...gay Cicada sipping floats ; And drunk with dew his matin sings Sweeter than any cygnet's notes. ' ODE ODE XXXV. CUPID once upon a bed Of roses laid his...urchin, not to see Within the leaves a slumbering bee ! The Theocritus has imitated this beautiful ode in his nineteenth idyll, but is very inferior, I think,... | |
 | Thomas Condie - 1813 - 262 pages
...clemency, (said the crafty jester) " / choose to die of old age !" FROM Cupid once upon a bed Ot rosca laid his weary head ; Luckless urchin, not to see Within the leaves a slumb'ring bee ! The bee awak'd— with anger wild The bee awak'd, and suing the child. Loud and piteous... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1822 - 578 pages
...delicacy of the thought seems to vie with the expressive simplicity of the terms in which it is conveyed. Cupid once upon a bed* Of roses laid his weary head...urchin, not to see Within the leaves a slumbering bee ! The bee awak'd— with anger wild The bee awak'd and stung the child. Loud and piteous are his cries... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 376 pages
...The gay Cicada sipping floats ; And, drunk with dew, his matin sings Sweeter than any cygnet's notes. ODE XXXV.* CUPID once upon a bed Of roses laid his weary head ; * Tbeocritus has imitated this beautiful ode in his nineteenth idyl, but is very inferior, I think,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 378 pages
...The gay Cicada sipping floats ; And, drunk with dew, his matin sings Sweeter than any cyguet's notes. ODE XXXV.* CUPID once upon a bed Of roses laid his weary head ; * Theocritus has imitated this beautiful ode in his nineteenth idyl, but is very inferior, I think,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 442 pages
...partial glow: Enough — herself appears ; 'tis done ; The picture breathes ; the paint will speak anon. CUPID once upon a bed Of roses laid his weary head...urchin, not to see Within the leaves a slumbering bee ! The bee awaked — with anger wild The bee awakiJ, and stung the child. Loud and piteous are his... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...partial glow: Enough — herself appears ; 'tis done ; The picture breathes ; the paint will speak anon. CUPID once upon a bed Of roses laid his weary head...urchin, not to see Within the leaves a slumbering bee ! The bee awaked — with anger wild The bee awaked, and stung the child. Loud and piteous are his... | |
 | John Arliss - 1825 - 382 pages
...the individual whose skill and attention had rescued him from the jawsof dissolution. ANACREONTIC. CUPID once upon a bed Of roses laid his weary head;...Luckless urchin not to see Within the leaves a slumbering becT The bee awaked — with anger wild — The hce awaked, and stung the child. Loud and piteous are... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Irish literature - 1825 - 332 pages
...hlest an age is pass'd hy thee, Thou seem'st — a little deity !" ODE XXXV.* •CUPID once upon a hed Of roses laid his weary head ; Luckless urchin, not to see Within the leaves a slumhering hee ? JIIelodimis insect ! child of earth .'] Longcpierre has quoted the two first lines... | |
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CUPID once upon a bed Of roses laid his weary head ; Luckless urchin, not to see Within the leaves a slumbering bee ! The bee awaked — with anger wild The bee awaked, and stung the child. 
