 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
 | 1846 - 708 sivua
...may not the whole citadel fall into the enemy's hands ? " Night hath better sweets to prove, Veuus now wakes and wakens love ; Come, let us our rites...flame Of midnight torches burns ; mysterious dame, Thou ne'er art called, but when the dragon womb Of Stygian darkness spits her thickest gloom, And makes... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 sivua
...elves. By dimpled brook, and fountain brim, The wood-nymphs, deck'd with daisies trim, Their merry wakea 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... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1848 - 588 sivua
...Thracian festival in honour of a goddess Cotytto or Cotys, thus invoked by Comus, in Milton : — " Hail, goddess of nocturnal sport, Dark-veil'd Cotytto...flame Of midnight torches burns ; mysterious dame — Stay thy cloudy ebon chair Wherein thou rid'st with Hecat." — Comus. The pronoun tu expresses... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 sivua
...Which these dun shades will ne'er report. — Hail, goddess of nocturnal sport, Dark-veil'd Coty tto ! to whom the secret flame Of midnight torches burns;...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... | |
 | Cam river - 1851 - 380 sivua
...elves: By dimpled brook and fountain brim The wood-nymphs, decked with daisies trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep. What hath night to do with sleep?...our rites begin ; 'Tis only daylight that makes sin, t Which these dun shades will ne'er report. Hail, goddess of nocturnal sport, Dark- veiled Cotytto!... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 sivua
...or border. B a / . WW.*. \y Their merry wakes and pastimes keep ; What hath night to do with sleep 1 Night hath better sweets to prove, Venus now wakes, and wakens Love./ Come, let us our rights begin ; //£t. { 'Tis only day-light that makes sin, ' , .^^ Which these dun shades will ne'er... | |
 | 1852 - 874 sivua
...By dimpled brook and fountain brim, The wood-nymphs, deck'd with daisies trim, I20 Their merry wakes moiion, up I I 30 That ne'er art call'd, but when the dragon woom Of Stygian darkness spets her thickest gloom,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 838 sivua
...daisies trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep ; What hath night to do with sleep 1 Night hath belter sweets to prove, Venus now wakes, and wakens Love....— Hail, goddess of nocturnal sport, Dark-veil'd Cotvtto ! t' whom the secret flame Of midnight torches burns; mysterious dame ! That ne'er art call'd,... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 344 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... | |
 | John Milton, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 376 sivua
...hath better sweets to prove ; Venus now wakes, and wakens Love. Come, let us our rights begin ; JTis only day-light that makes sin, Which these dun shades...— Hail, Goddess of nocturnal sport, Dark-veil'd Cotytto!8 to whom the secret flame Of midnight torches burns ; mysterious dame, That ne'er art call'd,... | |
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