 Lycidas? For neither were ye playing on the steep Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Ay me! I fondly dream " Had ye been there," . . . for what could that have...  Poet's Walk: An Introduction to English Poetry - Page 22by Mowbray Morris - 1898 - 343 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1870 - 464 pages
...herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, Whom universal Nature did lament, 60 When by the rout that made the hideous roar His gory...sent, Down the swift Hebrus, to the Lesbian shore? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, 65 And strictly... | |
 | Asahel Clark Kendrick - 1871 - 484 pages
...that their gay wardrobe wear, When first the white-thorn blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear. Where were ye, Nymphs, when the remorseless deep...was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear. Where were ye, Nymphs, when the remorseless deep . Oosed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas ? For neither...was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 530 pages
...Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream : Ah me ! I fondly dream, Had ye been there, for what could...sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly... | |
 | 1871 - 476 pages
...have done ? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself for her enchanting son, j Whom universal Nature did lament, When, by the rout...sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the 'Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted shepherd's trade, LYCWAS. 265... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 312 pages
...that Orpheus bore, — The Muse herself for her enchanting son, Whom universal Nature did lament ; 60 When, by the rout that made the hideous roar, His...was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, 65 And strictly... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...pastoral tenns, thence to sad reflection on the inability of guardian angels to protect their own: What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The...was sent Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Even Calliope, the muse of epic poetry, could not protect her son Orpheus against the fury of the Thracian... | |
 | William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 pages
...the poet who chose to live a virgin had eventually to confront and transcend the death of Orpheus: What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The...that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the steam was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Alas! What boots it with uncessant care... | |
 | Celeste Marguerite Schenck - 1988 - 248 pages
...Orpheus, emblem of the impending death of the arts and of their potential rebirth on other shores.1* What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The...sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? (1L58-63) Even more significant, however, is the initiatory motif this version of the Orpheus myth... | |
 | Plato - 1993 - 196 pages
...still singing. What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her inchanting son Whom universal nature did lament, When by the...sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore. (Lycidas, lines 58-64) he did not he would go home and live out a long life, he dared i8oa choose to... | |
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