| William Herbert - 1853 - 234 pages
...peace, and lonely musing, In hollow murmurs died away. MELANCHOLY FROM " IL PENSEROSO." -hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy,...visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue. Sweet bird that shunn'st... | |
| Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy,...visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy1, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight ; And therefore to our weaker view O'crlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such ш in esteem... | |
| Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hap, thou Goddess, sage and holy ! Hail, divinest Melancholy...visage is too bright, To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem... | |
| American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy ! Hail, divinest Melancholy...visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem... | |
| George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...the sunbeams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To lii: the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view, O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's... | |
| Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus9 train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy ! Hail, divinest Melancholy...visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem... | |
| John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...the sunbeams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy !...visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem... | |
| American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy ! Hail, divinest Melancholy...visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...Passionate Madman." Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy,...visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view, O'erlaid with Clack, staid wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem... | |
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