 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 pages
...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... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 pages
...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... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...prophetic vision (worthy of Amos or Ezekiel), the poem yet once more drops back to the mode of pastoral: Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk...And call the Vales, and bid them hither cast Their Bels, and Flourets of a thousand hues. [132-35] The power of this long floral offering arises from... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...two-handed engine110 at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.' Return, Alpheus,"1 the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; return,...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowrets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
 | Jahan Ramazani - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 436 pages
...is resuming and interrogating elegiac tradition. Milton's swain pleads in the famous flower catalog: "And call the vales, and bid them hither cast / Their bells and flowerets. . . . I Bring the rathe primrose . . . / And every flower that sad embroidery wears. . . . I Bid .../...... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...smite once, and smite no more." Retum Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; retum Sicilian Muse. And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowrets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low where the mild whispers use. Of shades and wanton winds... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 708 pages
...pastoral, Milton added next a twenty-line catalogue of colourful flowers, beginning self-consciously: Return, Alpheus; the dread voice is past That shrunk...cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. (132-5) The flower passage (in the composition of the poem, a happy afterthought) is a pretty art1fice... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 294 pages
...unworldly pastoral fantasy in which nothing exists except flowers, not even Amaryllis: Return Sicilean Muse, And call the Vales, and bid them hither cast Their Bells and Flowrets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds... | |
 | William Harmon - Poetry - 1998 - 386 pages
...the door Stands ready to smite once, and smites no more." Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is pass'd That shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse, And...wanton winds and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamel'd eyes That on the green turf suck the... | |
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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,... 
