 | John Wilson - 1845 - 248 pages
...wardrobe wear, When first the white-thorn blows; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear. ***** * * * Return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid...swart-star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 512 pages
...streams; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flow'ret s of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild...swart-star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, * That on the green turf suck the honeyed showers, And purple all the ground with vernal... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 292 pages
...the door " Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past,a That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And...of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whisfers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star sparely... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...That sunk so low that sacred head of thine. Return, Alpheus ; the dread voice is past, That shrunk5 thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the...thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use6 Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star7 sparely looks,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...nothing said: " But that two-handed engine at the door " Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades,...swart-star sparely looks : Throw hither all your quaint enamelFd eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showers,™ And purple all the ground with vernal... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...nothing said: '" But that two-handed engine at the door " Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades,...swart-star sparely looks : Throw hither all your quaint enamelFd eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showers?* And purple all the ground with vernal... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...nothing said: " But that two-handed engine at the door " Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades,...swart-star sparely looks : Throw hither all your quaint enamelFd eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showers,™ And purple all the ground with vernal... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 222 pages
...already familiar with it. It is the passage which contains that exquisite description of the flowers : " Return, Alpheus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and How 'rots of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1846 - 518 pages
...and asserted ten years ago, "that the most accomplished prince in Europe was an Adonis of fifty!" " Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse !" I look out of my window and see that a shower has jus! fallen : the fields look green after it,... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 524 pages
...close, The wonted roar was up amidst the woods," kc. How exquisite is every image of this passage : " Return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid...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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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,... 
