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 - Sivu 159tekijä(t) John Milton - 1852Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| Robert Deverell - 1813 - 622 sivua
...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, 125 'Tis only day-light that makes sin. Which these dun shades will ne'er report. Hail,... | |
| Robert Deverell - 1813 - 634 sivua
...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, 125 'Tis only, day-light that makes sin. Which these dun shades will ne'er report. Hail,... | |
| Robert Deverell - 1813 - 354 sivua
...brook, and fountain brim, •• . The wood-nymphs deck'd with daisies frim, 120 Their merry wakes and pastimes keep: What hath night to do with sleep...V^enus now wakes, and wakens love. Come let us our rights begin, - 'Tis only day-light that makes sin. Which these dun shades will ne'er report. Hail,... | |
| Juvenal - 1817 - 496 sivua
...the goddess of impurity. Milton has followed Juvenal, in his Comus, with great spirit and beauty : " Dark-veil'd Cotytto, to whom the secret flame Of midnight...call'd but when the dragon womb Of Stygian darkness spets her thickest gloom." VER. 135. With tiring-pins, these spread the sooty dye, #c.] We are now... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 sivua
...elver, 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 blot of all the air; Stay thy cloudy ebon chair, Wherein thou rid'st with Hecat',... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 sivua
...deck'd with daisies trim, Their merry wakes -and pastimes keep ; What hath night to do with steep ? rd, In signal of remove, waves fiercely round : We may no longer stay : go, waken Eve ; Her also , "Pis only day-light that makes sin, Which these dun shades will ne'er report : — Hail, goddess... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 272 sivua
...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...call'd, but when the dragon womb Of Stygian darkness spets her thickest gloom, And makes one blot of all the air ; Stay thy cloudy ebon chair, Wherein thou... | |
| John Milton - 1823 - 220 sivua
...elves. By dimpled brook and fountain brim, The Woodnymphs, deck'd with daisies trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep; What hath night to do with sleep?...call'd, but when the dragon womb Of Stygian darkness spets her thickest gloom, And makes one blot of all the air; Stay thy cloudy ebon chair, Wherein thou... | |
| British anthology - 1824 - 460 sivua
...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 blot of all the air ; Stay thy clondy ebon chair, Wherein thou ridest with Hecate,... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 sivua
...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...wakes, and wakens Love. Come let us our rites begin, 125 'Tis only day-light that makes sin, Which these dun shades will ne'er report. Hail goddess of nocturnal... | |
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