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. y Listen,... Comus: A Mask - Page 66by John Milton - 1858 - 90 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...try, And add the power of some adjuring verse. SONG Sabrinafair, Listen where thou art sirring 860 Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted...amber-dropping hair; Listen for dear honour's sake, Listen and save! Listen, and appear to us, In name of great Oceanus, By the earth-shaking Neptune's... | |
| Françoise Pellan - Psychoanalysis and literature - 1994 - 198 pages
...Rachel : Her chief occupation during thé day was to try to remember how thé lines went : Under thé glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber dropping haïr i and thé effort worried her because thé adjecti ves persisted in getting into... | |
| Professor Roger Poole, Roger Poole - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 324 pages
...passionate poetic acceptance of death by water, which takes the form of repeated quotations from Milton: Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave. This line, 'Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave' forms the beginning of an inner meditation in... | |
| William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...virgin such as was herself In hard-besetting need . . . (855-7) Lawes calls upon her in a lovely song:37 Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under...sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save. (859-66) From this point until the end of the masque the poetry is exceptionally light and lyric. There... | |
| Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...Gonna Wash That Man Right Out Of My Hair" (song), South Pacific (stage musical, 1 949; film, 1958). 4 Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under...knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair. JOHN MlLTON, (1608-1674) British poet. Attendant Spirit's song, in "Comus," I. 859-63 (1637). Repr.... | |
| Elizabeth Stoddard - Fiction - 1997 - 308 pages
...replied. "They came from Europe long ago," she said. "And they happen to suit you." " 'Sabrina fair, Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted...knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.' "" "Those lines make me forgive Paradise Lost, " said Adelaide. "They are very long, these ear-rings,"... | |
| Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...in mutual and partaken bliss. 7486 Comus Obtruding false rules pranked in reason's garb. 7487 Comus don't do it in the street and frighten the horses....double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue. C 7488 Comus Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head. That bends not as I tread.... | |
| Joanne Asala - Cooking - 1998 - 388 pages
...brown bread and sloke (page 248). ASSOCIATED HOLIDAYS: IMBOLG, BELTAINE, MIDSUMMER Oh Sabrinafair, listen where thou art sitting under the glassy, cool,...twisted braids of lilies knitting the loose train of thy amber dropping hair. JOHN MILTON Sloke While in Egypt one year, I met a Welsh gentleman named Rob who... | |
| Elizabeth M. Knowles - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 1160 pages
...at feasts, and high solemnities 512 Where most may wonder at the workmanship. Camus (1637) I. 745 l Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under...glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids ol'lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair. Comus ( 1637! I. 859 'Song' Ï Thus... | |
| Peter Mudford - Social Science - 2000 - 272 pages
...speech, as in the song which summons up the nymph Sabrina to release the Lady from the Enchanter's spell: Sabrina fair Listen where thou art sitting Under the...honour's sake Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save (lines 858-65) Milton's verse reaches quite different levels of dramatic effect which holds us in thrall... | |
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