 The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of...  The Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 305by John Milton - 1826Full view - About this book
 | John Murray (Firm) - Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) - 1854 - 492 pages
...held their peace." The words in which Milton alludes to this legend in his Ode on the Nativity — " The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament," — will recur to the memory of the English traveller as he sails — particularly if it be in the... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 428 pages
...leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic celL The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore...heard and loud lament From haunted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent : With power-inwoven tresses torn,... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 404 pages
...leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore...heard and loud lament From haunted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent : With power-inwoven tresses torn,... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Chivalry - 1913 - 972 pages
...several deities were sent wandering in cold and darkness. So Milton in his "Hymn on the Nativity" : "The lonely mountains o'er. And the resounding shore,...heard and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-enwoven tresses torn,... | |
 | Christopher Caudwell - History - 1985 - 344 pages
...los árboles y las piedras carecen de voluntad propia y son sujetos pasivos de la voluntad divina: From haunted spring, and dale Edg'd with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent, Whit flowre-inwov'n tresses torn The Nimphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.1 Así que,... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...of man's primitive consciousness of forces that lie beyond his control: The lonely mountains o're, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard,...pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent, With flowre-inwov'n tresses torn The Nimphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. [181-88] Finally,... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1986 - 260 pages
...classical gods who haunt the "lonely mountains" and the "resounding shore": The lonely mountains o're, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard,...pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent, With flowre-inwov'n tresses torn The Nimphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. (st. XX) Does the... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - Art - 1995 - 682 pages
...the dynasty of Olympus was dethroned, and the several deities sent wandering in cold and darkness. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...heard and loud lament ; From haunted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn,... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Fiction - 1993 - 390 pages
...several deities were sent wandering in cold and darkness. So Milton, in his 'Hymn on the Nativity': The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...heard and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-enwoven tresses torn,... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, 20 The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent, With flower-inwoven tresses torn The... | |
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