 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The...That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumbers on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...winding bout2 Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice3 through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that...may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heaped Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...harmony ; That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumbers on a bed Of heap' d Elysian flowers and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half regain' d Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. Milton shows... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...; Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The...may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heaped Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto to have set quite... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 pages
...; ' Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out ; With wanton heed, and giddy cunning. The...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." There is an exquisite symbolism in this last passage. The idea is that the " hidden soul " of a good... | |
 | Peter le Huray, James Day - Music - 1988 - 420 pages
...eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs; In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out; With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony. Let us parallel this with the softness, the winding surface, the unbroken continuance, the easy gradation... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long a } . | .@ 0 (1. 136-144) AWP; FaFP; FiP; GTBS; GTBS-P; HAP; HoPM; JCP; LiTB; NoP; OAEL-1; OBEY; OBS; PPP; SeCePo;... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
...119-37) The poem ends with a figure recurrent in the Miltonic pantheon, that type of the poet, Orpheus: Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul...may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heapt Elysian flow'rs, and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - History - 1996 - 294 pages
...verse. Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The...may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heapt Elysian flow'rs, and heat Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set... | |
 | Geoffrey Miles - Adonis (Greek deity) - 1999 - 474 pages
...Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout 140 Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; 145 That Orpheus' self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heaped Elysian flowers, and... | |
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And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through... 
