 Eve, Young virgins might have visions of delight, And soft adorings from their loves receive Upon the honey'd middle of the night If ceremonies due they did aright; As, supperless to bed they must retire, And couch supine their beauties, lily white; Nor...  The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment - Page 641832Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton- Dyer - 1878 - 344 pages
...frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold. * / * * * They told pifehow, upon St. Agnes's Eve, Young virgins might have visions of delight ;...And soft adorings from their loves receive, Upon the honey'd middle of the night, If ceremonies due they did aright ; As supperless to bed they must retire,... | |
 | William Henderson - Folklore - 1879 - 424 pages
...virgins might have visions of delight, And soft advisings from their loves receive, Upon the honeyed middle of the night, If ceremonies due they did aright; As supperless to bed they must retire, And conch supine their beauties, lily white ; Nor look behind, nor sideways, but require Of Heaven, with... | |
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1879 - 318 pages
...St. Agnes' saintly care, As she had heard old dames full many times declare. 45 They told her how, upon St. Agnes' Eve, Young virgins might have visions of delight, And soft adoring^ from their loves receive Upon the honey'd middle of the night, If ceremonies due they did... | |
 | 1880 - 976 pages
...wing'd St. Agnes' saintly care. As she had heard old dames full many times declare. They told her how, upon St. Agnes' Eve, Young virgins might have visions...And soft adorings from their loves receive Upon the honey 'd middle of the night, If ceremonies due they did aright; As, supperless to bed they must retire,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...winged St. Agnes' saintly care, \s she hud heard old dames full many times declare. They told her how, ulbert adoring» from their loves receive Upon the honeyed middle of the night, If ceremonies due they did... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...St. Agnes' saintly care, As she had heard old dames full many times declare. VI. They told her how, my dog. But he sticks by, through thick and thin;...with its empty pockets, And rags that smell of to honey'd middle of the night, If ceremonies due they did aright; As, supperless to bed they must retire,... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - American literature - 1881 - 412 pages
...winged St. Agnes' saintly care, As she had heard old dames full many times declare. They told her how, upon St. Agnes' Eve, Young virgins might have visions...And soft adorings from their loves receive Upon the honeyed middle of the night, If ceremonies due they did aright ; As, supperless to bed they must retire,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...St. Agnes' saintly care, As she had heard old dames full many times declare. VI. They told her how, oe can subdue us, no faction divide ; For ne'er shall the sons of Columbia adoriugs from their loves receive Upon the honeyed middle of the night, If ceremonies due they did... | |
 | 1881 - 504 pages
...perfect work of Mr. Tennyson's— St. Agnes' Eve. Here the poet has taken the legend according to which " upon St. Agnes' Eve Young virgins might have visions of delight, And soft adonnas from their loves receive Upon the honeyed middle of the night, If ceremonies due they did aright."... | |
 | English periodicals - 1882 - 778 pages
...Eve, Ymirn; vlr ' ' ' Ami might have visions of delight, ,K from their loves receive, L'y'tl niuldlc of the night, If ceremonies due they did aright ;...supperless to bed they must retire, And couch supine their beauties, lily-white ; Nor look behind, nor sideways, but require Of heaven, with upward eyes,... | |
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