 We follow Bacchus! Bacchus on the wing, A conquering! Bacchus, young Bacchus! good or ill betide, We dance before him thorough kingdoms wide: — Come hither, lady fair, and joined be To our wild minstrelsy!  Endymion, a Poetic Romance - Page 170by John Keats - 1818 - 242 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Keats - 1900 - 268 pages
...with flowers as he on did pass Tipsily quaffing. " Whence came ye, merry Damsels ! whence came ye ! So many, and so many, and such glee ? Why have ye left your bowers desolate, 220 Your lutes, and gentler fate ? — ' We follow Bacchus ! Bacchus on the wing,... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1901 - 1190 pages
...with flowers as he on did pass Tipsily quaffing. 1 Whence came ye, merry Damsels ! whence came yc, So many, and so many, and such glee ? Why have ye left your bowers desolate, Your lutes, and gentler fate ? ' — ' We follow Bacchus ! Bacchus on the wing, A-conquering... | |
 | Sidney Colvin - Literary Criticism - 1902 - 246 pages
...joined be To our wild minstrelsy!' ' Whence came ye, jolly Satyrs! Whence came ye ! So many, and BO many, and such glee ? Why have ye left your forest haunts, why left Tour nuts in oak-tree cleft ?'— ' For wine, for wine we left our kernel tree; For wine we left our... | |
 | John Nichol - Poets, English - 1902 - 700 pages
...Maenads and Satyrs, and their choral answers : " ' Whence came ye, merry Damsels ! Whence came ye ! 80 many, and so many, and such glee? Why have ye left your bowers desolate, Your lutes, and gentler fate!' ' Wo follow Bacchus, Bacchus on the wing, A conquering... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1903 - 888 pages
...lady fair, and joined be To our wild minstrelsy !' \Vhence came ye, jolly Satyrs ! whence came ye, So many, and so many, and such glee ? Why have ye...' For wine, for wine we left our kernel tree ; For \vin.e we left our heath, and yellow brooms, And cold mushrooms ; For wine we follow Bacchus through... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - Authors, English - 1904 - 452 pages
...full inspiration. Here is a stanza from the latter : " Whence came ye, jolly Satyrs ! Whence came ye ! So many, and so many, and such glee ? Why have ye...forest haunts, why left Your nuts in oak-tree cleft 1" — "For wine, for wine we left our kernel tree ; For wine we left our heath, and yellow brooms,... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1904 - 942 pages
...minstrelsy ! ' 'hence came ye, jolly Satyrs ! whence came ye ! nany, and so many, and such glee? y sadness, he was used to say, — " It 's dull in our (own since my pl ? — ir wine, for wine we left our kernel tree; wine we left our heath, and yellow brooms. And cold... | |
 | English poetry - 1905 - 682 pages
...with flowers as he on did pass Tipsily quaffing. "Whence came ye, merry Damsels ! whence came ye ! So many, and so many, and such glee ? Why have ye left your bowers desolate, Your lutes, and gentler fate ? — ' We follow Bacchus ! Bacchus on the wing, A conquering... | |
 | 1866 - 584 pages
...Here Keats wrote part of the " Endymion." It is related that the waiter one day heard him reciting : " For wine, for wine, we left our kernel tree, For wine...left our heath, and yellow brooms, And cold mushrooms :" , and shortly appeared on the lawn with a decanter of sherry and a plate of the uncooked fungi.... | |
 | John Keats - English poetry - 1906 - 592 pages
...lady fair, and joined be To our wild minstrelsy ! ' "Whence came ye, jolly Satyrs! whence came ye! So many, and so many, and such glee? Why have ye left your forest haunts, why left 230 Your nuts in oak-tree cleft? — ' For wine, for wine we left our kernel tree ; For wine we left... | |
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