...the door, Stands ready to smite once, & smite no more." Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is pass'd, That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And...valleys low, where the mild whispers use. Of shades, & wanton winds, & gashing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star sparely looks, Throw hither all...

...desire. Hamlet, i. 2. Ham. The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns - Id., iii. I. Return Alpheus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return Sicilian Muse ' Lycidas.' 132. Go back to antique ages, if thine eyes The genuine mien and character would trace...

...to which the objection applies is the following : — " Ye Valleys low, where the mild whispers rise Of shades, and wanton winds, and 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...

...encourage, in those lovely verses, the beautiful fictions of Paganism and Theocritus to come back : — " Return, Alpheus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk...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...

...lovely verses, the beautiful fictions of Paganism and Theocritus to come back : — " Return, Alphéus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ;...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...

...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 flo w'rcts of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds...

...nothing fed: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus; the dread voice is past, That shrunk...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...

...late, For a laggard in love and a dastard in war AVas to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar." " Return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowreis of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,...

...POETICAL FRIEND.) Written after reading the book of Job, and Leigh Hunt's Translations from the Greek. Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian muse. MILTON. 0 ! let me live, and pass my future days, Far from the town, and all its sordid ways, In some...

...and running waters, and consequently with those beautiful scenes which nature often presents — " In valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades,...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks," will ever render the aspen an agreeable object with those whose regard for...