 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...more." Return, JUphevu, the dread voice it pa»t,u That thrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Mutt And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowerets, of a thousand hues. Fe valleys lour, where the mild whispers use Of shades, anil wanton... | |
 | England - English poetry - 1860 - 532 pages
...nothing said: " But that two-handed engine at the door " Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 pages
...nothing sed : But that two-handed engine at the door 1 30 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Mnse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. 135... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.' Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrank thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1861 - 236 pages
...wardrobe wear, When first the white-thorn blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear. ***** * * * Return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues, Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...prophetic vision (worthy of Amos or Ezekiel), the poem yet once more drops back to the mode of pastoral: Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk...And call the Vales, and bid them hither cast Their Bels, and Flourets of a thousand hues. [132-35] The power of this long floral offering arises from... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
...(line 87). Arethuse goes underground and rises again after 'the Pilot of the Galilean Lake' speaks: 'Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past / That shrunk thy streams; Return Sicilian Muse' (lines 131-3). The river Alpheus going underground and arising again as the fountain Arethuse is a... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...two-handed engine110 at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.' Return, Alpheus,"1 the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; return,...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowrets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
 | Jahan Ramazani - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 436 pages
...is resuming and interrogating elegiac tradition. Milton's swain pleads in the famous flower catalog: "And call the vales, and bid them hither cast / Their bells and flowerets. . . . I Bring the rathe primrose . . . / And every flower that sad embroidery wears. . .... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...smite once, and smite no more." Retum Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; retum Sicilian Muse. And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowrets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low where the mild whispers use. Of shades and wanton winds... | |
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Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. 
