 Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?  Bell's Edition - Page 113by John Bell - 1788Full view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse I e to find, And think the tangles of Nesera's hair ! Fame ia the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | Mary Kirby - Botany - 1850 - 208 pages
...country girl. "Tu, Tityre, lentns in umbra Formosain resonare doces Amaryllida sylvas." VlEOII.(EcLOOiI. "Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade." LTCIDAS. Daffodils are called ' Lent lilies ' in the south of England, and in Sweden the churches are... | |
 | Mary Kirby - 1850 - 204 pages
...country girl. "Tu, Tityre, lentus in umbra Formosam resonare doces Amaryllida sylvas." VIRGIL, ECLOGA I. "Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade." LTCIDAS. Daffodils are called ' Lent lilies ' in the south of England, and in Sweden the churches are... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...Alas T what boots it, with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done,...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, — That last infirmity... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done,...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | Thomas Smibert - 1852 - 126 pages
...Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done,...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair ? " This most melodious passage has often been quoted, but the source... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse f Those were of hate and death, or pain much worse ; Here Nature seems fulfill'd in all the tangles of Neiera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise {That last infirmity... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted shepherd's trade. And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done,...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair'? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise ( That last infirmity... | |
 | John Milton, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 376 pages
...Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis7 in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair 1 Fame is the spur that the clear spirit... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis7 in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit... | |
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