 | 1855 - 540 pages
...inmost grove, Whilst yet there was no fear of Jove. Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, stedfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing...musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes : There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till,... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...inmost grove, While yet there was no fear of Jove. Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing...musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes : There held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...inmost grove, While yet there was no fear of Jove. Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, stedfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing...musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes: There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...inmost grove, While yet there was no fear of Jove. Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain. Flowing...step, and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies9 Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes : There held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble,... | |
 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - Europe - 1855 - 456 pages
...steadfast and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, Marble. Other artists. And sable stole of Cyprus lawn, Over thy decent shoulders...musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes : There held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble." More... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 64 pages
...and demure, All in a. robe of darkest grain. Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep...musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes : There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till,... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress lawn, Over thy decent shoulder drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state With even step,...musing gait ; And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes : There, held in. holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come ; but keep...musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes: There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 pages
...to Milton's true ideal of melancholy it would be dissipated by his sublime description of her : — And sable stole of Cyprus* lawn Over thy decent shoulders...musing gait ; And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes." Now, let us see what kind of mirth is worthless, and its contrasted... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress e did ascend. (II, i) 45 When beggars die there are...blaze forth the death of princes. (II, ii) 44 That we rapt soul sitting in thine eyes; There held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, (1. 31—42)... | |
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There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad, leaden, downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast. 
