 | J. Martin Evans - History - 1998 - 204 pages
...however, the protagonist is already dead, so in place of Edward King's voice we hear his elegist's: And call the Vales, and bid them hither cast Their Bells, and Flourets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low where the milde whispers use, Of shades and wanton winds... | |
 | Kent Gramm - History - 2001 - 350 pages
...Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk they streams; Return Sicilian Muse, And call the Vales, and bid them hither case Their Bells and Flowrets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low where the mild whispers use Of shades... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk...the Vales, and bid them hither cast Their Bells and Flowrets of a thousand hues. 135 Ye valleys low where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...door, 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.0 Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past,0 That shrunk thy streams; return Sicilian muse, And...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowrets of a thousand hues.0 Ye valleys low where the mild whispers use,0 Of shades and wanton winds,... | |
 | Northrop Frye - Literary Collections - 2005 - 529 pages
...Arethuse, and thou honour'd floud, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crown'd with vocal reeds . . . and later: Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams; Return Sicilian Muse. The allusion has the effect of reminding the reader that this is, after all, a pastoral. But Milton... | |
 | John Milton - 2006 - 66 pages
...nothing said. 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...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... | |
 | John Milton - Fiction - 2006 - 94 pages
...nothing said. 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...use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck the honeyed showers, And purple... | |
 | Robert Casillo - Performing Arts - 2006 - 641 pages
...criminals.' Joe Valachi, 1963 'You never stop being a priest. Or a mafioso.' Judge Giovanni Falcone Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams; return Sicilian Muse ... Milton, 'Lycidas' Contents Preface xi Acknowledgments xix 1 The Immigrant Generations: Italianamerican... | |
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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,... 
