Sweet echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale Where the love-lorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well: Canst thou not tell me of a gentle pair... Comus: A Mask - Page 16by John Milton - 1858 - 90 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...violet-embroider'd vale, Where the love-lorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well ; 235 Canst thou not tell me of a gentle pair That likest thy Narcissus are ? O, if thou have Hid them in some flow'ry cave, Tell me but where, 240 Sweet queen of parly, daughter... | |
| George Hogarth - Opera - 1838 - 494 pages
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| Fashion - 1867 - 740 pages
...pounds. ' Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that livest unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale, Where the...love-lorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song monrneth well ; Canst thou not tell me of a gentle pair That likest thy Narcissus are ? Tell me but... | |
| John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, 231 By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroider'd vale, Where the love-lorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well ; 235 Canst thou not tell me of a gentle pair That likest thy Narcissus are ? O, if thou have Hid them... | |
| Fashion - 514 pages
...livest unseen, Within thy aery shell, By slow Meander's margent green And in the violet embroidered vale, Where the love-lorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth weil : Can'st thou not tell me of a gentle pair, That likest thy Narcissus are ? O, if thou have Hid... | |
| Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...liv'st unseen Within thy aery shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroider'd vale, Where the lovelorn nightingale Nightly to thee...Hid them in some flowery cave, Tell me but where, Sweet queen of parley, daughter of the sphere ! So mayst thou be translated to the skies, And give... | |
| Songs, English - 1840 - 652 pages
...liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroider'd vale, Where the love-lorn nightingale Nightly to thee...Hid them in some flowery cave, Tell me but where, Sweet queen of parley, daughter of the sphere ! So mayst thou be translated to the skies, And give... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...livest unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroider'd vale, Where the love-lorn nightingale Nightly to thee...me of a gentle pair That likest thy Narcissus are ! 0 if thou have Hid them in some flow'ry cave, Tell me but where, Sweet queen of parly, daughter of... | |
| Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1841 - 312 pages
...liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet ernbroider'd vale, . Where the love-lorn nightingale Nightly to...me of a gentle pair That likest thy Narcissus are ? O, if thou have Hid them in some flow'ry cave, Tell me but where, Sweet queen «f Parley, daughter... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...liv'et unseen Within thy aery shell, 231 By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroider'd oking, loving, to abstain From love's due rites, nuptial embraces sweet , And with desire lo languis mo of a gentle pair That likest thy Narcissus are I O, if thou have Hid them in some flowery cave,... | |
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