 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...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... | |
 | George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - English language - 1847 - 374 pages
...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... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Pastoral poetry - 1848 - 264 pages
...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Sicily (Italy) - 1848 - 268 pages
...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1849 - 290 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 flo w'rcts of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1855 - 494 pages
...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,... | |
 | Elijah Ridings - 1850 - 200 pages
...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... | |
 | Forests and forestry - 1851 - 222 pages
...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... | |
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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,... 
