 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 pages
...in an earlier part of the same play (see page 40). And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his how, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But...chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy free. Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 584 pages
...Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all armed: a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west; And loosed his love-shaft smartly...chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell; It... | |
 | William Henry Venable - Amateur plays - 1874 - 288 pages
...Flying between the cold moon and the Earth, Cupid, all arm'd: a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the West, And loosed his love-shaft smartly...Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon, And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet marked I where... | |
 | Floral poesy - 1875 - 360 pages
...moon and the earth, Cupid all armed : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west j And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As...Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon, And the imperial votress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy free. Yet marked I where... | |
 | F. Taverner Graham - Elocution - 1874 - 224 pages
...Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west ; And loosed his love-shaft smartly...hearts ; But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon ; And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation,... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all armed ; a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, ; Early or late, They stoop to fate, And must votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1877 - 482 pages
...Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid, all armed : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west ; And loosed his love-shaft smartly...imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy free." The voice of Raleigh, as he repeated the last lines, became a little tremulous, as if... | |
 | Frederick Edward Hulme - Flowers - 1877 - 270 pages
...moon and the earth, Cupid all armed : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west ; M And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As...chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation fancy-free. Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all armed : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly...see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste Warns of the watery moon, And the imperial vot'rcss passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy free. Vet... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 598 pages
...Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid, all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west ; And loosed his love-shaft smartly...hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench 'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation,... | |
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That very time I saw (but thou couldst not) Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all armed: a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west. And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand... 
