 When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain ; And the brown bright nightingale amorous Is half assuaged for Itylus, For the Thracian...  Horace: Odes and Epodes - Page 204by Horace - 1898 - 487 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American Philological Association - 1885 - 558 pages
...before passing to the consideration of double time, the following from Swinburne will serve : — « When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces,...windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain ; And the brown bright nightingale amorous Is half assuaged for Itylus, For the Thracian ships and... | |
 | Francis Barton Gummere - 1885 - 280 pages
...from Atalanta in Calydon: — " When the hdunds of Spring are on Winter's trdces, The mdther of mdnths in me"adow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain." No one will deny that there are both melody and vigor in this. No exact foot is adopted as unit ; the... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam - 1885 - 450 pages
...were springing rapidly from the womb of earth, and " The mother of months in meadow and plain Filled the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain," a deed of horror was being enacted in an isolated region beyond the frost-liberated waters of the North... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam - 1885 - 448 pages
...were springing rapidly from the womb of earth, and " The mother of months in meadow and plain Filled the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain," a deed of horror was being enacted in an isolated region beyond the frost-liberated waters of the North... | |
 | Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, George Henry Payne, Henry Goddard Leach, D. G. Redmond - 1914 - 988 pages
...to work. The next morning when my friend climbed into our barge to ride to the field he began: " ' When the hounds of Spring are on Winter's traces,...The mother of months, in meadow or plain, Fills the hollows ' " Dammit, what's the rest of it? I've been trying to recite that piece all night." Now he... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1887 - 566 pages
...succeeding chorus, at the height of Swinburne's lyric reach, resolves attention to enchantment : — " When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces,...windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain; The best English reproduction of the antique. ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE. And the brown bright nightingale... | |
 | Henry Fitz Randolph - 1887 - 392 pages
...Closely as now, nor ask if it be Spring. ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE. FROM 'ATALANTA IN CALYDON.'" CHORUS. WHEN the hounds of spring are on winter's traces,...windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain; And the brown bright nightingale amorous Is half assuaged for Itylus, For the Thracian ships and the... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1888 - 712 pages
...The world should listen then as I am listening now. PERCY BVSSHE SHELLEY. WHEN THE HOUNDS OF SPRING the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, The mother...plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of baves and ripple of rain ; And the brown bright nightingale amorous Is half assuaged for Itylus, For... | |
 | 1913 - 656 pages
...Year." This is one of the most beautiful passages in the drama and is a part most commonly quoted.7 When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces,...windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain; And the brown bright nightingale amorous Is half assuaged for Itylus, For the foreign ships and foreign... | |
 | William Morris - 1888 - 270 pages
...of Life: "Midsummer mute of song." 15. Life of all the year. Cf. Swinburne, Atalanta in Calydon: " When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces The...windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain." The third story in The Earthly Paradise, which one of the elders of the city tells at the first feast... | |
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