Keturn, 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 flow 'rets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... The Blue Poetry Book - Page 150edited by - 1891 - 348 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1841 - 732 pages
...and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowrets of a thousand hues. Ye vallies low, where the wild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing...star sparely looks ; Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return, w. The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where...Great Villiers lies — alas, how chang'd from him. T flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...said : But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...But that two-handed engine at the door 1 30 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return, then retires Into flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
| William Harrison Ainsworth - English literature - 1844 - 624 pages
...lovely verses, the beautiful fictions of Paganism and Theocritus to come back: — " Return, Alphcus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ;...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whitpers use Of shades, and wanton, winds,... | |
| John Wilson - 1845 - 266 pages
...* * * Return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues, Ye valleys low, where the mild...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 Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 512 pages
...familiar with it. It is the passage which contains that exquisite description of the flowers: "Return, Alpheus; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams;...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flow'ret s of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...familiar with it. It is the passage which contains that exquisite description of the flowers : " Return, Alpheus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and How 'rots of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...streams; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowerets, of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star sparely looks; Throw hither all your quaint enameltd eyes, That on the green turf *«eA... | |
| Leigh Hunt - Sicily (Italy) - 1848 - 264 pages
...those lovely verses, the beautiful fictions of Paganism and Theocritus to come back : — " Return, Alpheus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
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