 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...raise Musseus4 from his bower ! Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes, as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek ! Or caU up him5 that left half-told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife,... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...raise Musseus from his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes, as warbled to the string Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek. Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife,... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1913 - 972 pages
...raise Musseus from his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek." CHAPTER XXV ARION — IBYCUS SIMONIDES SAPPHO THE poets whose adventures compose this chapter... | |
 | Helen Louise Cohen - 1927 - 402 pages
...Lander's Orpheus and Eurydice. Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek. In North America, a similar myth appears under various guises. The Yokut Indians relate how a... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...raise Musaeus from his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew Iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek. [103-08] And after his dreams, set in an harmonious Theocritean landscape, he hopes to hear the... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1986 - 260 pages
...raise Musaeus from his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew Iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek. (103-8) Folktales recounted in L'Al over a cheerful mug of ale have in IIP a weightier counterpart... | |
 | James F. Hopewell - 244 pages
...his queen. Orpheus sang . . . [and] no one under the spell of his voice could refuse him anything. He Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek. They summoned Eurydice and gave her to him, but upon one condition: that he would not look back... | |
 | John Hollander - 1990 - 280 pages
...raise Musaeus from his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew Iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek. It is interesting to observe that the parallel evocation of Orpheus in the closing lines of VAllegro... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - 1995 - 682 pages
...raise Musa2us from his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek.1 Other legendary bards or musicians were Linus, Marsyas, and Amphion. (3) The Poets of Mvthology.... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...thyself to marble, (1. 31—42) 17 Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string. 1 Julius Caesar 43 Men at some time are masters of their fates, The f seek; (1. 105-108) IB But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love... | |
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Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age, Ennobled hath the buskined stage. But O, sad Virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string,... 
