Their merry wakes and pastimes keep : What hath night to do with sleep? Night hath better sweets to prove; Venus now wakes, and wakens Love. Come, let us our rites begin; Tis only daylight that makes sin, Which these dun shades will ne'er report. Hail,... The Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 159by John Milton - 1852Full view - About this book
| John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...By dimpled brook, and fountain brim, The wood-nymphs deck'd with daisies trim, 120 Their merry wakes and pastimes keep ; What hath night to do with sleep...Venus now wakes, and wakens Love. Come, let us our rights begin, v& 'Tis only day-light that makes sin, Which these dun shades will ne'er report. Hail... | |
| Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...elves. By dimpled brook and fountain brim, The wood-nymphs, deck'd with daisies trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep ; What hath night to do with sleep!...dragon womb Of Stygian darkness spits her thickest gloom, And makes one bolt of all the air ; Stay the cloudy ebon chair, Wherein thou ridest with Hecat',... | |
| English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...elves. By dimpled brook and fountain brim, The wood-nymphs, deck'd with daisies trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep ; What hath night to do with sleep...will ne'er report : Hail, goddess of nocturnal sport, Dark-vcil'd Cotytto ! to whom the secret flame Of midnight torches burns ; mysterious dame, That ne'er... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...elves. By dimpled brook and fountain brim, The wood-nymphs, deck'd with daisies trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep : What hath night to do with sleep...Which these dun shades will ne'er report. — Hail, goddrss of nocturnal sport, Dark-vcil'd Cotytto ! t" whom the secret flame Of midnight torches burns... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...daisies trim, 120 Their merry wakes and pastimes keep; What hath night to do with sleep ? Night halh better sweets to prove, Venus now wakes, and wakens...us our rites begin; "Tis only daylight that makes ein, Which Ihese dun shades will ne'er report: — Hail, goddess of nocturnal sport, Dark-veil'd Cotytto... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...elves. By dimpled brook and fountain-brim, The wood-nymphs, deck'd with daisies trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep : What hath night to do with sleep...dragon womb Of Stygian darkness spits her thickest gloom, Stay thy cloudy ebon chair, Wherein thou ridest with Hecate, and befriend Us, thy vow'd priests,... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...daisies trim, 120 Tlieir merry wakes and pastimes keep ; What hath night to do with sleep l Niglit s fire is out, his wit decay'd, His fancy sunk, his...talking to some men !" And then their tenderness appears 130 That ne'er art call'd, but when the dragon woom Of Stygian darkness spets her thickest gloom, And... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...By dimpled brook and fountain brim, The wood-nymphs, deck'd with daisies trim, 120 Their merry wakes tain Arethuse, and thou honor'd flood, Smooth-sliding...crown'd with vocal reeds! That strain I heard was of ; "!']••. only daylight that makes sin. Which these dun shades will ne'er report: — Hail, goddess... | |
| Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1844 - 846 pages
...elves. By dimpled brook and fountain brim, The wood-nymphs, deck'd with daisies trim, Their merry wakes s to be good — Who made his ivory stands with goblets...suspicious wretch, whose bolted door Ne'er moved in duty ! t' whom the secret flame Of midnight torches burns ; mysterious dame ! That ne'er art call'd, but... | |
| William Dobson - 1845 - 204 pages
...watchful spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years. Hail, Goddess of nocturnal sport, Dark veiled Cotytto ! to whom the secret flame Of midnight torches burns ; mysterious dame That ne'er art called, but when the dragon womb Of Stygian darkness spits her thickest gloom, * * * * Befriend Us... | |
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