 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
 | Various - Poetry - 1993 - 980 pages
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 | College readers - 1994 - 1952 pages
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 | Jahan Ramazani - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 436 pages
...is resuming and interrogating elegiac tradition. Milton's swain pleads in the famous flower catalog: "And call the vales, and bid them hither cast / Their bells and flowerets. . . . I Bring the rathe primrose . . . / And every flower that sad embroidery wears. . . . I Bid .../...... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...smite once, and smite no more." Retum Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; retum Sicilian Muse. And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowrets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low where the mild whispers use. Of shades and wanton winds... | |
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