 When such music sweet Their hearts and ears did greet, As never was by mortal finger strook, Divinely-warbled voice Answering the stringed noise, As all their souls in blissful rapture took: The air such pleasure loth to lose, With thousand echoes still...  The Harvard Classics - Page 101909Full view - About this book
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...below ; Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, Was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep. When such music sweet Their hearts and ears did greet...Could hold all heaven and earth in happier union. At last surrounds their sight A globe of circular light, That with long beams the shamefaced night... | |
 | John Milton - 1880 - 340 pages
...finger strook, Divinely-warhled voice Answering the stringed noise. As all their souls in hlissful rapture took: The air such pleasure loth to lose....Could hold all heaven and earth in happier union. At last surrounds their sight A iilohe of circular light, That with long heams the shamefaced night... | |
 | sir Edmund William Gosse - 1881 - 308 pages
...below : Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, Was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep. When such music sweet Their hearts and ears did greet,...Could hold all heaven and earth in happier union. At last surrounds their sight A globe of circular light, That with long beams the shamefaced night... | |
 | Anna Callender Brackett - American poetry - 1881 - 348 pages
...below ; Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep Was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep. When such music sweet Their hearts and ears did greet...Could hold all heaven and earth in happier union. At last surrounds their sight A globe of circular light That with long beams the shamefaced night array'd,... | |
 | John Milton - 1881 - 590 pages
...: The air, such pleasure loth to lose, With thousand echoes still prolongs each heavenly close, x. Nature that heard such sound, Beneath the hollow round...shame-faced night arrayed ; The helmed cherubim, And sworded seraphim, Are seen in glittering ranks with wings displayed, Harping in loud and solemn quire,... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1880 - 1108 pages
...Answering the stringed noise, As all their souls in blissful rapture took: The air such pleasure loath ood And heart of God revealed. We faintly hear, we dimly see, In differing At last surrounds their sight A globe of circular light, That with long beams the shamefaced night... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...took; The air such pleasure loath to lose, With thousand echoes still prolongs each heavenly close. X. 4 heav'n and earth in happier union. XI. At last surrounds their sight A globe of circular light, That... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - Elocution - 1911 - 458 pages
...below; Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep 'Was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep: When such music sweet Their hearts and ears did greet...Could hold all Heaven and Earth in happier union. At last surrounds their sight A globe of circular light That with long beams the shamefaced night array... | |
 | Robert Haven Schauffler - Christmas - 1912 - 378 pages
...Answering the stringed noise, As all their souls in blissful rapture took : The air, such pleasure loath to lose, With thousand echoes still prolongs each...Could hold all heaven and earth in happier union. At last surrounds their sight A globe of circular light, That with long beams the shame-faced night... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1912 - 502 pages
...echoes still prolongs each heavenly close. Nature, that heard such sound Beneath the hollow round 30 Of Cynthia's seat the airy region thrilling, Now was...Could hold all Heaven and Earth in happier union. At last surrounds their sight A globe of circular light That with long beams the shamefaced night array'd... | |
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