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
| Charles Fleet - 1878 - 314 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...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 Latinos, where... | |
| Charles Fleet - Sussex (England) - 1878 - 318 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...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... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1878 - 560 pages
...rushes, to make many a ring For thy long fingers ; tell thee tales of love. — How the pale Phcabe, hunting in a grove, First saw the boy Endymion, from...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... | |
| England - 1878 - 822 pages
..." Toll thec tales of lore, — How the pale Diпn, hunting, in a grore, First saw the boy Eudymion, from whose eyes She took eternal fire that never dies, — How she conveyed him softly in a sleep, His temples bound with pnppy, to the steep Head of old Latinos, where... | |
| Juvenal - 1879 - 236 pages
...pictures (eg the well-known bas-relief in the capitol). John Fletcher the faithful shepherdess I 3 tells the 'tale of love' well: 'how the pale Phoebe,...sleep, | his temples bound with poppy, to the steep j head of old Latmos, where she stoops each night, gilding the mountain with her brother's light, |... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1880 - 216 pages
...naturally a favourite with the poets. Fletcher, in The Faithful Shepherdess, tells the tale charmingly, — 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, No note at all... | |
| Thomas Bulfinch - Mythology, Classical - 1881 - 518 pages
...enamored less Than I of thee." Fletcher, in the Faithful Shepherdess, tells, — "How the pale Phcebe, hunting in a grove, First saw the boy Endymion, from...eyes She took eternal fire that never dies ; How she conveyed him softly iu a sleep, His temples bound with poppy, to the steep Head of old Latinos, where... | |
| William Smith - Mythology, Classical - 1882 - 340 pages
...daughters by the Moon. In the British Museum there ia a beautiful statue of the sleeping Endymion: — " How the pale Phoebe, hunting in a grove, First saw...eyes She took eternal fire that never dies : How she conveyed bun softly in a sleep, His temples bound with poppy, to the steep Head of old Latmus, where... | |
| Sir John Skelton - Great Britain - 1883 - 382 pages
...hunting with her nymphs, or stooping out of her cloud to clasp Endymion. " Tell thee tales of love,— How the pale Phoebe, hunting, in a grove, First saw...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 - English poetry - 1883 - 350 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 eyes She tools eternal fire that never dies ; How she conveyed him softly in a sleep, His temples bound with... | |
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