 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...and glades He met her, and in secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove, Whilst yet there was no tear of Jove. Come, pensive Nun ! devout and pure, Sober,...holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast: And join with thee calm Peace,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep...holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast, Thou fix them on the earth as fast ; And join with thee calm Peace,... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...in glimmering bowers and glades He met her, and in secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove, Whilst yet there was no fear of Jove. Come, pensive nun,...holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast .Thou fix them on the earth as fast ; And join with thee calm Peace,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...grove, While yet there was no fear of Jove. Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure« Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing...skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes : There held ii holy pasñon still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast, Thou fir them... | |
 | Thomas Thompson - Monasteries - 1824 - 342 pages
...christian reader, and therefore it is here introduced. Come pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, stcdfast and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing...musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy wrapt soul sitting in thine eyes. II Penseroso, 30,—40. the rough figures in Stevens's additions... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...Tale, we have black cyprus. Act iv. s. 3. Lawn as white as driren snow, Cyprut black as e'er was crow. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and...holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast : And join with thee calm Peace... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...and pure, Sober, stedfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Following with majestic 'rain, shades, where Cowley Bis living harp, and lofty Denham...! Are these reviv'd ? or is it Granville sings ! T skim, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes: There held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...daughter she (in Saturn's reign, Such mixture was not held a stain), Oft in glimmering bow'rs and glades He met her, and in secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost...holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast : And join with thee calm Peace,... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...grove, Whilst yet there was no fear of Jove. Come, pensive nun, devout and pure. Sober, steadfast, and demure, . All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing...holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast : And join with thee calm Peace,... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - Elocution - 1826 - 242 pages
...black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Come pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, stedfast and demure, All in that robe of darkest grain Flowing with majestic train,...thy wonted state, With even step and musing gait, 3 And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul setting in thine eyes ; There held in holy passion... | |
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There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad, leaden, downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast. 
