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 British Poets: Including Translations ... - Page 128by British poets - 1822Full view - About this book
| John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. xx. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...heard and loud lament ; From haunted spring, and dale Edg'd with poplar pale, 185 The parting genius is with sighing sent ; With flbw'r-inwoven tresses torn... | |
| Christopher Wordsworth (bp. of Lincoln) - Art, Greek - 1839 - 512 pages
...held their peace." The words in which Milton refers to this incident 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 over this spot, particularly if... | |
| Patrick Fraser Tytler - Scotland - 1840 - 360 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,...with sighing sent: With flower-inwoven tresses torn, The nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. " In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth,... | |
| Joseph Robertson - Table-talk - 1840 - 290 pages
...leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-ey'd Priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...heard and loud lament: From haunted spring and dale, Edg'd with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The... | |
| Joseph Robertson - Table-talk - 1840 - 286 pages
...leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-ey'd Priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...heard and loud lament : From haunted spring and dale, Edg'd with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with signing sent ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn... | |
| Richard Cattermole - Christian art and symbolism - 1840 - 232 pages
...as submitting to their banishment " to profoundest hell," was no fiction: — " The lonely mountain o'er And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping...heard and loud lament ; From haunted spring and dale, Edg'd with poplar pale, The parting genius is with sighing sent ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn... | |
| William Bennet (poet.) - 1840 - 278 pages
...leaving. No mighty trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. " The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping beard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting genius ia... | |
| Gems - 1841 - 624 pages
...leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-«yed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore,...with sighing sent : With flower-inwoven tresses torn, The Nymphs, in twilight shade of tangled thickets, mourn. In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth,... | |
| Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1841 - 312 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,...is with sighing sent : With flower-inwoven tresses lorn, The Nymphs, in twilight shade of tangled thickets, mourn. In consecrated earth And on the holy... | |
| 1841 - 832 pages
...not melody enough for this age in O'Connell's last whine, and imagination enough in the Whig budget ? The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...pale. The parting genius is with sighing sent. With flowers, in woven tresses torn, The muses in dim shades of tangled thickets mourn. Yet, lest our irritabile... | |
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