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... waves into attention , And fell Charybdis murmured soft applause ; Yet they in pleasing slumber lulled the sense , And in sweet madness robbed it of itself ; But such a sacred and home - felt delight , Such sober certainty of waking ...
... waves into attention , And fell Charybdis murmured soft applause ; Yet they in pleasing slumber lulled the sense , And in sweet madness robbed it of itself ; But such a sacred and home - felt delight , Such sober certainty of waking ...
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... wave this wand , Your nerves are all chained up in alabaster , And you a statue , or , as Daphne was , Root - bound , that fled Apollo . LADY . Fool ! do not boast ; Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind With all thy charms ...
... wave this wand , Your nerves are all chained up in alabaster , And you a statue , or , as Daphne was , Root - bound , that fled Apollo . LADY . Fool ! do not boast ; Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind With all thy charms ...
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... 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 , and appear to us , In name of great Oceanus ; By the ...
... 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 , and appear to us , In name of great Oceanus ; By the ...
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... wave , Till thou our summons answered have . Listen , and save . [ SABRINA rises , attended by water - nymphs , and sings . ] By the rushy - fringed bank , Where grows the willow and the osier dank , My sliding chariot stays , Thick set ...
... wave , Till thou our summons answered have . Listen , and save . [ SABRINA rises , attended by water - nymphs , and sings . ] By the rushy - fringed bank , Where grows the willow and the osier dank , My sliding chariot stays , Thick set ...
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... waves for this Their full tribute never miss From a thousand petty rills , hills : That tumble down the snowy Summer drouth , or singéd air , Never scorch thy tresses fair , Nor wet October's torrent flood Thy molten crystal fill with ...
... waves for this Their full tribute never miss From a thousand petty rills , hills : That tumble down the snowy Summer drouth , or singéd air , Never scorch thy tresses fair , Nor wet October's torrent flood Thy molten crystal fill with ...
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amidst Anchises Ascanius beg me sing beget on youthful bower BREAD STREET brute Carpathian wizard's chaste chastity clouted shoon COMUS Corineus Cornwall crown that Virtue dead Parthenope's divine philosophy doth drouth drowsy-flighted EARL OF BRIDGEWATER earth cumbered ELDER BROTHER enchanter esteemed Estrildis Faerie Queene fair Ligea's false Fancy can beget fear flocks foul gentle give goddess grace Guendolen halloo hast hath head be crowned Hecat Henry VI herb hidden strength honour Jove knot-grass LADY Listen lord loved mayst Milton Nereus night nymph o'er Paradise Lost ribs of Death Roving the Celtic Sabrina SECOND BROTHER shades shepherd shrewd meddling elf silver lining sister sits the Assyrian sky robes spun soft and solemn-breathing solemn-breathing sound song soul spell SPIRIT stalk with languished stars stream Strive to keep swain sweet taste tell thee thou thought Thrice upon thy thy banks Thyrsis unlocked my lips wand wild winged air darked wood
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Page 38 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Page 20 - And in sweet madness robbed it of itself, But such a sacred and home-felt delight, Such sober certainty of waking bliss, I never heard till now.
Page 32 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Page 39 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 76 - To the ocean now I fly, And those happy climes that lie Where day never shuts his eye, Up in the broad fields of the sky. There I suck the liquid air, All amidst the Gardens fair Of Hesperus, and his daughters three That sing about the Golden Tree.
Page 64 - What! have you let the false enchanter scape? O ye mistook; ye should have snatched his wand, And bound him fast. Without his rod reversed, And backward mutters of dissevering power, We cannot free the Lady that sits here In stony fetters fixed and motionless.
Page 3 - In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, Which men call earth...
Page 35 - Does arbitrate the event, my nature is That I incline to hope rather than fear, And gladly banish squint suspicion.
Page 10 - We, that are of purer fire, Imitate the starry quire ; Who, in their nightly watchful spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years. The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, Now to the moon in wavering morrice move ; And, on the tawny sands and shelves, Trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.
Page 17 - A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses.