 QUEEN and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining...  The Richmond County Mirror - Page 1321839Full view - About this book
 | 1863 - 348 pages
...patroness of the chase, and delighted in bunting. In " Cynthia's revels " Ben Jonson addresses her : — " Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is...silver chair State in wonted manner keep. Hesperus desires thy light, Goddess excellently bright." The dark spots on the moon's face must have been noticed... | |
 | 1863 - 982 pages
...loads the day, And, when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains. J. Milton Q LXXVIII HYMN TO DIANA UEEN and Huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair Earth, let' not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose ; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 722 pages
...drunkards, That buy the merry madness of an hour, With the long irksomeness of following time! (Ibid.) 2. Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seate'l i» thy silver chair, Siate in wonted manner keep.... f Lay thy bow of pearl apifrt, And thy... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 344 pages
...one bright Nymph our youth contends, and on your prudent choice depends. E. WALLER 267 HYMN TO DIANA QUEEN and Huntress, chaste and fair, now the sun is...itself to interpose ; Cynthia's shining orb was made heaven to clear when day did close: bless us then with wished sight, goddess excellently bright. Lay... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1865 - 120 pages
...roundelay; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. Alfred Tennyson TO OYXTIIIA. QUEEN and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is...itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Bless us, then, with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright! Lay thy bow of pearl apart, And thy... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...ye'll not abide him. Since ye hear his falser play, And that he's Venus' run-away. HYMN TO CYNTHIA. Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is...itself to interpose ; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear, when day did cjose Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess, excellently bright Lay... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - 1988 - 330 pages
...snow upon some craggy hill, Drop, drop, drop, drop, Since nature's pride is now a withered daffodil. Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is...itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright. Lay... | |
 | Muriel Clara Bradbrook - 1989 - 238 pages
...angel's hue . . . to Ben Jonson she is a heavenly being from an older religion, Cynthia, still excelling. Queen and huntress chaste and fair, Now the sun is...Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. John Lyly wrote plays in her praise, as he also wrote wittily to provide models of conversation for... | |
 | 460 pages
...cold hand, Except Love's fires the virtue have To fright the frost out of the grave. Hymn to Diana Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is...itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear, when day did close; Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright. Lay... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - 1995 - 682 pages
...the bear, the boar, the dog, the goat, and specially the hind. 33. Jonson's Hymn to Cynthia (Diana). Queen and Huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is...itself to interpose ; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close : Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright. Lay... | |
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