 Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use, Of shades and wanton winds,...  The Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 707by John Milton - 1855 - 858 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...apace ; and nothing said, But that two-handed engin at the dcor, Stands ready to smite once, and smiie no more. Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past That...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flow'rets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 418 pages
...foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready...gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star sparely looks; Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready...gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star sparely looks; Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...devours apace, and nothing sed : But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite u.ice, and smite no more." Return, Alpheus, the dread voice...gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star sparely looks , Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd. eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied... | |
 | John Milton - 1812 - 78 pages
...that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return Alphèus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ;...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck... | |
 | 1816 - 420 pages
...From Love's asylum rudely torn; Oh, Rose! a lover's vengeance bear; And let my rival feel thy thorn. Return, Alpheus; the dread voice is past That shrunk...gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said, But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flow'rets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past. That sliriink five hundred pounds a year. Blush, Grandeur, blush...little stars ! hide your diminish'd rays. B. And sliades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star sparely looks ; Throw... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred head of thine. T5 ***** Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk...flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low where the wild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the sivart-star... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...CURONOLOGT. — Napoleon Buonaparte died in 1820, at St. Helena. Lachrymal Plovers, from I.ycidas, by Milton. Return, Alpheus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck... | |
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