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" The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint ; In urns, and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar Power forgoes his wonted seat. "
Poems Upon Several Occasions: English, Italian, and Latin, with Translations ... - Page 278
by John Milton - 1791 - 608 pages
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Half-hours with our sacred poets [an anthology] ed. by A.H. Grant

Half hours - 1863 - 408 pages
...The nymphs in twilight shades of tangled thickets mourn In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint ; In urns and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each...
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A Compendium of English Literautre: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...Nymphs, in twilight shade of tangled thickets, mourn In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, XXI. The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint; In urns and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with illustr. by E.H. Corbould and J. Gilbert

John Milton - 1864 - 584 pages
...flower-inwoven tresses torn, The nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. XXI. In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, 190 The Lars and Lemures...plaint; In urns, and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each...
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The life of the blessed virgin Mary, tr. by P. Power

Mathieu Orsini - 1864 - 268 pages
...nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn, i " In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint : In urns and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint : And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each...
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Choice specimens of English literature, selected and arranged by T.B. Shaw ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...Nymphs, in twilight shade of tangled thickets, mourn. In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint ; In urns and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each...
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Poetical Works: Volume 2. Paradise Regain'd; Samson Agonistes; Poems Upon ...

John Milton - 2000 - 412 pages
...flowre-inwov'n tresses torn The Nimphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. XXI In consecrated Earth, And on the holy Hearth, 190 The Lars, and Lemures...plaint, In Urns, and Altars round, A drear, and dying sound Affrights the Flamins at their service quaint; And the chill Marble seems to sweat, 195 While...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 4

1909 - 502 pages
...Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. XXI In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint ; In urns, and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each...
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Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft: Addressed to J.G. Lockhart, Esq

Walter Scott - 1830 - 430 pages
...twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. " In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars ;m<V Lemures moan with midnight plaint; In urns and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each...
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Miscellaneous Poems ; Paradise Regain'd ; & Samson Agonistes

John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...OF APOLLO AND THE PAGAN DEITIES THE FLIGHT OF MOLOCH xxi In consecrated Earth, And on tie My Hearth, The Lars, and Lemures moan with midnight plaint, In Urns, and Altars round, A drear, and dying sound Affrights the Flamins at their service quaint; And the chitt Marble seems to sweat, While each...
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Female & Male Voices in Early Modern England: An Anthology of Renaissance ...

Betty Travitsky, Anne Lake Prescott - 2000 - 440 pages
...shade of tangled thickets mourn. 21 In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemurs^2 moan with midnight plaint; In urns and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens^ at their service quaint; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each...
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