 Ay me, I fondly dream ! Had ye been there — for what could that have done ? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory...  Papers for teachers - Page 2301880Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...spreads her wizard stream: Ah me! I fondly dream! Had ye been there — for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The...was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore 1 Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly... | |
 | Robert Pashley - 1837 - 396 pages
...the ancient heathens. The well-known and miraculous transfer of the head of Orpheus15 — Whose goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus, to the Lesbian shore — might have made the propagators of the Christian legend blush for their own want of proficiency... | |
 | English periodicals - 1838 - 760 pages
...the ancient heathens. "The well-known and miraculous transfer of the head of Orpheus, ' Whose goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore,' might have made the propagators of the Christian legend blush for their own want of proficiency in... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...ye the while his shepheard peares, &,c. Wvrto*. Had ye been there, for what could that have done ? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself for her inchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, 60 When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His... | |
 | John Herman Merivale - English poetry - 1838 - 392 pages
...the sky. XXXV. Yet not at once could EDWIN'S mystic lore Complete the wonders by his lays begun : " What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself for her enchanted son ?" Not till maturing years had slowly run Their destined course, coseval with the strain,... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...stream of Deva, consult Warton's note. VOL. ii. 35 Had ye been there, for what could that have done ? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself for her inchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, 60 When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...her wizard stream : Ay me ! I fondly dream ! Had ye been there — for what could that have done * What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The...was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore 1 Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...her wizard stream : Ay me ! I fondly dream ! Had ye been there — for what could that have donc Î What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The...enchanting son, Whom universal Nature did lament, 60 When, by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...spreads her wizard stream : Ah me ! I fondly dream, Had ye been there : for what could that have done ? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The...was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...her wizard stream : Ay me ! I fondly dream ! Had ye been there — for what could that have done ? weet Innocence we find, And tender Peace, and joys...while they ravish, tranquillize the mind : Nature 60 When, by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the... | |
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