 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - Gay men - 1868 - 376 pages
...whose flowers are tears, and round his temples Iron blossom of frost is bound for ever." SAPPHICS. ALL the night sleep came not upon my eyelids, Shed...shook nor unclosed a feather, Yet with lips shut close aud with eyes of iron Stood and beheld me. Then to me so lying awake a vision Came without sleep over... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - English poetry - 1884 - 724 pages
...All whose flowers are tears, and round his temples Iron blossom of frost is bound forever." SAPPHICS. ALL the night sleep came not upon my eyelids, Shed...with eyes of iron Stood and beheld me. Then to me so Iving awake a vision Came without sleep over the seas and touched me, Softly touched mine eyelids and... | |
 | Ethan Allen Andrews, Solomon Stoddard - Latin language - 1888 - 478 pages
...|| pater | et ru|bente Dexte|ra sa|cras || iacu|latus | arces Terruit| urbem. Cf. in English : — All the night sleep came not upon my eyelids, Shed...shut close and with eyes of iron Stood and beheld me. (Swinburne's Sapphics.) Horace, Odes, i., 2, 10, 12, 20, 22, 25, 30, 32, 38; ii., 2, 4, 6,8, 10, 16;... | |
 | Jakob Schipper - English language - 1888 - 498 pages
...sapphischen Strophen gedichtet. Wir theilen aus seinen Poems and Ballads (I, p. 235) eine Probe mit : All the night sleep came not upon my eyelids, Shed...shut close and with eyes of iron Stood and beheld me. Von andern classischen Vers- und Strophenarten ist noch die alcäische Strophe bisweilen nachgeahmt... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1889 - 344 pages
...All whose flowers are tears, and round his temples Iron blossom of frost is bound forever." SAPPHICS. ALL the night sleep came not upon my eyelids, Shed not dew, nor shook nor unclosed a feather, Vet with lips shut close and with eyes of iron Stood and beheld me. Then to me so lying awake a vision... | |
 | James Challis Parsons - English language - 1891 - 188 pages
...All the | night sleep | came not up | on my | eyelids, | Shed not | dew nor I shook nor un | closed a | feather, Yet with | lips shut | close, and with | eyes of | iron Stood and be | held me. | Southey simply suggests it: Swift through the sky the vessel of the Suras Sails up... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1897 - 260 pages
...Lesbian loveliness. (Cf. p. 26.) The Sapphic metre is well represented by the following from Swinburne: All the night sleep came not upon my eyelids, Shed...shut close and with eyes of iron Stood and beheld me. (Cf. p. 46.) Tennyson refers to her in Leonine Elegiacs 13, and imitates her most famous poem in Elednore... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 438 pages
...criticism, and were withdrawn from the market. He has published in all no less than twenty volumes.] ALL the night sleep came not upon my eyelids, Shed...me so lying awake a vision Came without sleep over seas and touched me, Softly touched mine eyelids and lips ; and I too, Full of the vision, Saw the... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 446 pages
...criticism, and were withdrawn from the market. He has published in all no 1-.-sS than twenty volumes.] ALL the night sleep came not upon my eyelids, Shed...me so lying awake a vision Came without sleep over seas and touched me, Softly touched mine eyelids and lips ; and I too, Full of the vision, Saw the... | |
 | 1902 - 664 pages
...time rendered her verses in a scrupulous reproduction of the classic measure, after this fashion : " All the night, sleep came not upon my eyelids, Shed...close and with eyes of iron, Stood and beheld me," Mr. Bok scanned these lines mentally as they came, and even tried to check off the feet with his blue... | |
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ALL the night sleep came not upon my eyelids, Shed not dew, nor shook nor unclosed a feather, Yet with lips shut close and with eyes of iron Stood and beheld me. 
