 How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou...  Horace: with notes by C. Girdlestone and W.A. Osborne - Page 81by Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1848 - 12 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Walter De la Mare - American poetry - 1923 - 696 pages
...ancient little carol has been slightly changed. 29. "SLEEP STAYS NOT, THOUGH A MONARCH BIDS" (line 11). Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, Under the... | |
 | Wolfgang Clemen - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 211 pages
...frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, 10 And husht with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfmn'd chambers of the great, Under... | |
 | Stephen Greenblatt, Stephen Greenblatt, PH D - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 205 pages
...of histrionic rhetoric but as a private meditation, the innermost thoughts of a troubled, weary man: Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon...with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest... | |
 | George T. Wright - Poetry - 1988 - 363 pages
...successive lines with very different rhythmical contours that nevertheless remained metrically iambic: Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon...And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber (2 Henry 1V. 3.1.9-I1) The second and third lines follow a mainly trochaic inner rhythm, in contrast... | |
 | Orson Welles - Performing Arts - 1988 - 340 pages
...frighted thee, / That thou no more wilt weigh mine eyelids down / And steep my senses in forgetful ness? / Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, / Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee / And hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, / Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, / Under... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Reference - 1992 - 1132 pages
...I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? .h . Y . hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfumed chambers of the great. Under the... | |
 | Jonathan Dollimore, Alan Sinfield - Authority in literature - 1994 - 295 pages
...uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody? (1II.i.9—14) Who knows? perhaps it is even true; perhaps in a society in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 865 pages
...I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, 10 And hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfumed chambers of the great,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 128 pages
...I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee And hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, Under the... | |
 | Margaret Shewring - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 206 pages
...my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smokey cribs Than in the perfumed chambers of the great Under the canopies of costly state, And lulled with sound of sweetest melody. There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of... | |
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