Venus' sweet delight, Of late had chang'd the tenor of her string To higher tunes than serve for Cupid's fight : Shrill trumpets' sound, sharp swords, and lances strong, War, blood, and death, were matter of her song. The God of Love by chance had heard... Reuben Apsley - Page 164by Horace Smith - 1827Full view - About this book
| English poets - 1801 - 382 pages
...and Venus' sweet delight, Of late had changed the tenor of her string To higher tunes than serve to Cupid's fight : Shrill trumpets' sound, sharp swords, and lances strong, War, blood, and death, were matter of my song. The god of love by chance had heard thereof, That I was proved a rebel to his... | |
| George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 468 pages
...Muse, that whilom us.'d to sing Fair Beauty's praise, and Venus' sweet delight, Of late had chang'd the tenor of her string To higher tunes than serve...fight : Shrill trumpets' sound, sharp swords, and lancet strong, War, blood, and death, were matter of my song. The god of Love by chance had heard thereof,... | |
| George Ellis - English poetry - 1811 - 472 pages
...Muse, that whilom us'd to sing Fair Beauty's praise, and Venus' sweet delight, Of late had chang'd the tenor of her string To higher tunes than serve...swords, and lances strong, War, blood, and death, were matter of my song. The god of Love by chance had heard thereof, That I was prov'da rebel to his... | |
| Poetical rhapsody - 1826 - 294 pages
...Muse, that whilome wont to sing, Fair beauty's praise, and Venus' sweet delight ; Of late had chang'd the tenor of her string, To higher tunes than serve...sharp swords and lances strong, War, blood, and death, were matter of her song. The God of Love by chance had heard thereof, That I was prov'da rebel to his... | |
| Francis Davison - English poetry - 1826 - 608 pages
...Muse, te t whilome wont to sing, Fair beauty's pr^Siy4tnd Venus' sweet delight ; Of late had chang'd the tenor of her string. To higher tunes than serve...sharp swords and lances strong, War, blood, and death, were matter of her song. The God of Love by chance had heard thereof, That I was prov'da rebel to his... | |
| Horace Smith - 1827 - 1150 pages
...praise, and Venus' sweet delight, Of late liath changed the tenor ofher string To higher tunes than nerve for Cupid's fight : Shrill trumpets' sound, sharp swords, and lances strong, War, bloud, and death are matter of my song. Sin WALVER RALEIGH. EMILY HARYPIELD, the Squire's sister, who... | |
| sir Walter Ralegh - 1829 - 806 pages
...wanton Muse, that whilom wont to sing Fair Beauty's praise and Venus' sweet delight, Of late had chang'd the tenor of her string To higher tunes than serve...swords, and lances strong, War, blood, and death, were matter of her song. The God of Love by chance had heard thereof, That I was prov'da rebel to his... | |
| Sir Walter Raleigh - Great Britain - 1829 - 810 pages
...wanton Muse, that whilom wont to sing Fair Beauty's praise and Venus' sweet delight, Of late had chang'd the tenor of her string To higher tunes than serve...swords, and lances strong, War, blood, and death, were matter of her song. The God of Love by chance had heard thereof, That I was prov'da rebel to his... | |
| Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Henry Wotton - English poetry - 1870 - 322 pages
...Poem," with the signature " Ignoto." Thence in Brydges' and the Oxford editions of Raleigh's " Poems." Shrill trumpets' sound, sharp swords, and lances strong, War, blood, and death were matter of her song. The god of love by chance had heard thereof. That I was proved a rebel to... | |
| sir Walter Ralegh - 1875 - 316 pages
...Poem," with the signature " Ignoto." Thence in Brvdgea' and the Oxford editions of Raleigh's " Poems." Shrill trumpets' sound, sharp swords, and lances strong, War, blood, and death were matter of her song. The god of love by chance had heard thereof, That I was proved a rebel to... | |
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