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" Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting, Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair ; Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save! Listen... "
A Study of English and American Poets: A Laboratory Method - Page 107
by John Scott Clark - 1900 - 859 pages
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Titan, Volume 23

1856 - 642 pages
...seated on her 'coralpaven bed,' and listening to the invocation which reaches her from above: — ' Sabrina fair ! Listen where thou art sitting Under...sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen, and save ! ' True to the text, Mr Cardwell's Sabrina has the water-lilies in her floating hair; and her face,...
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Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets

David Masson - 1856 - 528 pages
...with, if the medium had been prose. Thus, in the first passage, it was felt that the image of Sabrina " Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of her amber-dropping hair," would make poor prose too amorous. Again, in the passage from .^Eschylus,...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 26

1870 - 786 pages
...come up and drag Mr. Hopeton down. Let me invoke the real nymph of this stream ! " She iang: — 41 Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under...train of thy amber-dropping hair ; Listen for dear honor's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save ! " Madeline did not know what she was doing....
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English poetry, for use in the schools of the Collegiate institution ...

English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...about the courtly stable Bright harness'd angels sit, in order serviceable. EXTEACT FEOM COMUS. SONU. SABRINA fair, Listen where thou art sitting, Under...twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber- dropping hair ; Listen, for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen, and save....
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8

1861 - 1050 pages
...form and trailing tentacles float among the waving fronds of colored Algae, like " Snbrina fair, • Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of her amber-dropping hair." THE YOUNG REPEALER. ABOUT eighteen years ago, when I was confined to two...
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Comus: A Mask

John Milton - 1858 - 114 pages
...spell, If she be right invoked in warbled song ; For maidenhood she loves, and will be swift Sony. Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under...Listen, and appear to us, In name of great Oceanus ; By the earth-shaking Neptune's mace, And Tethys' grave majestic pace, By hoary Nereus' wrinkled look,...
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Select specimens of the English poets, ed. by A. De Vere

Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal. SONG. Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under...Listen and appear to us, In name of great Oceanus ; By th' earth-shaking Neptune's mace, And Tethys' grave majestic pace; By hoary Nereus' wrinkled look,...
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Comus: A Mask

John Milton - 1858 - 106 pages
...: this will I try, And add the power of some adjuring verse. Son;/. Sabrina fair, Listen where them art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave,...Listen, and appear to us, In name of great Oceanus ; By the earth-shaking Neptune's mace, And Tethys' grave majestic pace, By hoary Ncrcus' wrinkled look,...
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The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connection with the Political ..., Volume 1

David Masson - 1859 - 718 pages
...maidenhood? Only let her presence be adjured by some suitable song! Such a song Thyrsis himself sings : ^ ' Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting, Under...train of thy amber-dropping hair: Listen, for dear honor's sake, Goddess of the silver lake; Listen and save!" The lyric prolongs itself in an ode continuing...
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The Poems of John Milton: With Notes, Volume 1

John Milton, Thomas Keightley - 1859 - 492 pages
...adjuring verse. Song. Sabriua fair, Listen where thou art sitting MM) Under the glassy, eool, translueent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose...sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen, and save ! 845. Helping, ie relieving, euring. — urehin. See Fairg Mgthologg, England. — bleuts, ie injuries...
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