THOU still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both,... The Christian Teacher - Página 2471839Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Annie Trumbull Slosson - 1878 - 286 páginas
...few extracts will show its exquisite character: " What men or gods are these ? What maidens loath ? What mad pursuit ? What struggle to escape ? What pipes and timbrels ? What wild extacy ? " Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter ; therefore, ye soft pipes, play... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 páginas
...rhyme! What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thj shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempo or the dales of Arcady ? What men or gods are these ? what msidens loath ? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape! What pipes and timbrels? What wi>! ecstasy... | |
| Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 390 páginas
...Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals,...of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loath? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? Heard... | |
| Helen A Hertz - 1879 - 292 páginas
...Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme : What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe ' or the dales of Arcady ?2 What men or gods are these ? What maidens loath ? What mad pursuit ? WTiat struggle to escape ?... | |
| Jennie J. Young - 1879 - 512 páginas
...many there which we might have addressed, with Keats : "What leaf-fringed legend haunts about your shape Of deities or mortals, or of both. In Tempe or the vales of Arcady? What men or gods are these?" Both form and ornamentation were as purely Greek as those... | |
| Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 páginas
...Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme : What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals,...struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels ? What wild ecstasy ? Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter ; therefore, ye soft pilies, play... | |
| Frances Mary Owen - 1880 - 202 páginas
...Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flower)' tale more sweetly than our rhyme ; What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals,...Arcady? What men or gods are these ? what maidens loath ? What mad pursuit ? what struggle to escape ? What pipes and timbrels ? what wild ecstasy ?... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 648 páginas
...Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme : What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals,...Arcady? What men or gods are these ? What maidens loath ? What mad pursuit ? What struggle to escape ? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? 2.... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 650 páginas
...Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme : What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals,...Arcady? What men or gods are these ? What maidens loath ? What mad pursuit ? What struggle to escape ? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? Heard... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 páginas
...Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme : What leaf-fringed uilt, and pain by turns dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control, De loath ? What mad pursuit ? What struggles to escape ? What pipes and timbrels ? What wild ecstasy ?... | |
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