 | Thomas N. Corns - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
...Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heapt Elysian flow'rs,...thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. (lines 143-51) 'These delights' have by the poem's end become quite clearly defined as the delights... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - History - 1996 - 294 pages
...That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heapt Elysian flow'rs, and heat Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half-regain'd Eurydice. (11. 136-50) the charges of the Muse-haters that it is precisely the "linked sweetness" of poetry that... | |
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With wanton heed and giddy cunning ; The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus... 
