 I sit by and sing, Or gather rushes, to make many a ring For thy long fingers ; tell thee tales of love, How the pale Phoebe, hunting in a grove, First saw the boy Endymion, from whose eyes She took eternal fire that never dies ; How she...  Thirteen Satires of Juvenal - Page 166by Juvenal - 1878Full view - About this book
 | Francis Beaumont, Leigh Hunt - Poetry - 1855 - 412 pages
...by and sing, Or gather rushes, to make many a ring For thy long fingers ; tell thee tales of love, How the pale Phoebe, hunting in a grove, First saw the boy Bndymion, from whose eyes She took eternal fire that never dies ; How she convey'd him softly in a... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1856 - 772 pages
...Fletcher has retraced the old Greek story in his resonant English lines : — Tell thee tales of love : How the pale Phoebe, hunting in a grove. First saw...eyes She took eternal fire that never dies ; How she conveyed him softly in a sleep, His temples bound with poppy, to the Head of old Latmos, where she... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1857 - 468 pages
...sit by and sing, Or gather rushes to make many a ring For thy long fingers : tell thee tales of love, How the pale Phoebe, hunting in a grove, First saw...temples bound with poppy, to the steep Head of old Latmus, where she stoops each night, Gilding the mountains with her brother's light, To kiss her sweetest.... | |
 | Severn river - English poetry - 1859 - 408 pages
...sit by and sing, Or gather rushes to make many a ring For thy long fingers, tell the tales of love, How the pale Phoebe, hunting in a grove, First saw...eyes She took eternal fire that never dies; How she conveyed him softly in a sleep, His temples bound with poppy, to the steep Head of old Latmus, where... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1859 - 494 pages
...Or gather rushes, to make many a ring For thy long fingers ; tell thee tales of love, How the paie Phoebe, hunting in a grove, First saw the boy Endymion,...eyes She took eternal fire that never dies ; How she conveyed him softly in a sleep, His temples bound with poppy, to the steep Head of old Latmos, where... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...by and sing. Or gather rushes, to make many a ring For thy long fingers ; tel. thee tales of love ; How the pale Phoebe, hunting in a grove, First saw the boy Endymion, from whote eye* She took eternal fire that never diet ; How the conveyed him tofUy in a sleep, ffif templet... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1862 - 732 pages
...by and sing, Or gather rushes, to make many a ring For thy long fingers ; tell thee tales of love, How the pale Phoebe, hunting in a grove, First saw...temples bound with poppy, to the steep Head of old Latmus, where she stoops each night, Gilding the mountain with her brother's light, To kiss her sweetest.... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1862 - 604 pages
...by and sing, Or gather rushes, to make many a ring For thy long fingers ; tell thee tales of love, How the pale Phoebe, hunting in a grove, First saw the boy Endymion, from whose eyea She took eternal fire that never dies ; How she convey 'd him softly in a sleep, His temples bound... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 326 pages
...and sing, Or gather rushes to make many a ring For thy long fingers ; tell thee tales of love, — How the pale Phoebe, hunting in a grove, First saw...eyes She took eternal fire that never dies ; How she conveyed him softly, in a sleep, His temples bound with poppy, to the steep Head of old Latmos, where... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 692 pages
...and sing, or gather rushes, to make many a ring for thy long fingers ; tell thee tales of love, — how the pale Phoebe, hunting in a grove, first saw...temples bound with poppy, to the steep head of old Latmus, where she stoops each night, gilding the mountain with her brother's light, to kiss her sweetest.... | |
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