 Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams; return Sicilian Muse, And call the Vales, and bid them hither cast Their Bells, and Flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use, Of shades and wanton winds,...  The Genius and Character of Burns - Page 131by John Wilson - 1845 - 222 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - Milton, John, 1608-1674 - 1853 - 380 pages
...smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alpheus,6 the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star1 sparely looks ; Throw hither ah1 your quaint enamell'd eyes, That on the green turf suck... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alpheus,6 the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid...hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use 1 ' The pilot : ' Peter.—2 ' Scrannel : ' screeching.—3 ' Sed : ' old spelling for said. — 4... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 344 pages
...smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flow'rets of a thousand hues. 135 Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid...swart-star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green-turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Mythology, Classical - 1854 - 562 pages
...OaXaooovopos. Could that strange poet have alluded to the practice of mixing sea-water with wine ? * Ye vallies low, where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton...swart-star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyfi, That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid...cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. 135 Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 980 pages
...description of the flowers : " Return, Alphcus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flow'rcts of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alpheus ; the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ; ° return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid...gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star q sparely looks; Throw hither all your quaint enamel'd eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...that two-handed engine at the door Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams; return Sicilian muse, And call the vales, and bid...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks ; Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck... | |
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