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" The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water,... "
The dramatic works of William Shakspeare. Whittingham's ed - Page 73
by William Shakespeare - 1814
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Shakespeare: A Life in Drama

Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 pages
...picturesque description into an erotic vision: The poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them. The oars...flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster. As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description....
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...a burnished throne Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them. The oars...flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, (1564-1616) British dramatist,...
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Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917

Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1996 - 476 pages
...burnished throne, Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them; the oars...flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, TSE has 'golden' (7), 'beat' (5), and 'faster' (24). He later refashioned Enobarbus's...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Shakespeare

Laurie Rozakis - 1999 - 406 pages
...burnished throne, Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with them. The oars were...of flutes kept stroke and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous as their strokes. For her own person, Is beggared all description....
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Shakespeare's Twenty-First Century Economics: The Morality of Love and Money

Frederick Turner - 1999 - 232 pages
...burnished throne, Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with them; the oars were...of flutes kept stroke and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description:...
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The Chinese Garden

Rosemary Manning - 2000 - 196 pages
...burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars...flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description...
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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 2000 - 60 pages
...burnished throne, Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them. The oars...flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description:...
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The Prince of Princes: The Life of Potemkin

Simon Sebag Montefiore - 2001 - 692 pages
...burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water, the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were lovesick with them, the oars were...flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description...
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Shakespeare's Reading

Robert S. Miola - 2000 - 206 pages
...a burnished throne Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them. The oars...flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description....
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The Tragedy of Anthony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare - 2000 - 404 pages
...Appendix A). Burned on the water; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that 200 The winds were lovesick with them; the oars were silver,...flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, lt beggared all description:...
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