 | Homer Baxter Sprague - English literature - 1874 - 462 pages
...; vil. é, eta. Ascending up with many a stately stair, To honor's seat and chastity's sweet bower. Why stand ye still, ye virgins, in amaze, Upon her...lay to sing. To which the woods did answer, and your echo ring ? 11. But if ye saw that which no eyes can see, The inward beauty of her lovely spright,... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...Spenser was married. Ascending up with many a stately stair, To Honour's seat and Chastity's sweet bower. Why stand ye still, ye Virgins, in amaze, Upon her...lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your echo ring. But if ye saw that which no eyes can see, The inward beauty of her lively spright, Garnished... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...Ascending up, with many a stately stayre, To honors seat and chastities sweet bowre. Why stand ye still, yc tears for the Blue, Tears aiid love for the G my....LAND, of every land the best, — О Laud, whose glo ? EDMUND SPKNSER. HEBREW WEDDING. FROM "THE FALL OF JHRUSALEM." To the sonnd of timbrels sweet Moving... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...to a bowl of cream uucruddcd. . . . Why stand ye still, ye virgins, in amaze, Upon her so to g:ize. Whiles ye forget your former lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your echo ring? / But if ye saw that which no eyes can see, The inward beauty of her lively sprite, Garnished... | |
 | English poetry - 1881 - 456 pages
...palace fair, Ascending up, with many a stately stair, To honour's seat and chastity's sweet bower. Why stand ye still, ye virgins, in amaze Upon her...lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your echo ring ? But if ye saw that which no eyes can see, The inward beauty of her lively spright, Garnisht... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1882 - 984 pages
...charming men to bile, Her breast like to a bowl of cream uncrudded. Why stand ye still, ye virgins in Upon her so to gaze, Whiles ye forget your former...lay to sing To which the woods did answer, and your echo ring I But if ye saw that which no eyes can see, The inward beauty of her lively sprite, Garnished... | |
 | Oliver Bell Bunce - Women in literature - 1883 - 332 pages
...rudded, Her lips like cherries charming men to bite, Her breast like to a bowl of cream uncrudded. Why stand ye still, ye virgins in amaze, Upon her...lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your echo ring ? But if ye saw that which no eyes can see, The inward beauty of her lively sprite, Garnished... | |
 | William James Linton - English poetry - 1883 - 396 pages
...a palace fair, Ascending up with many a stately stair To Honour's seat and Chastity's sweet bower. Why stand ye still, ye virgins ! in amaze, Upon her...lay to sing, To which the woods did answer and your echo ring. The inward beauty of her lively spright, Garnish'd with heavenly gifts of high degree, Much... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 pages
...palace fair, Ascending up with many a stately stair, To Honour's seat and Chastity's sweet bower. 180 Why stand ye still, ye virgins, in amaze, Upon her so to gaze, Whiles ye forgot your former lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your echo ring ? But if ye saw that... | |
 | Mrs. Grace Townsend - English poetry - 1890 - 640 pages
...ruddied, Her lips like cherries charming men to bite, Her breast like to a bowl of cream uncrudded. ****** Why stand ye still, ye virgins, in amaze Upon her...lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your echo ring? But if ye saw that which no eyes can see, The inward beauty of her lively sprite, Garnished... | |
| |
Why stand ye still ye virgins in amaze, Upon her so to gaze, Whiles ye forget your former lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your eccho ring... 
