 And drenches with Elysian dew — List, mortals, if your ears be true ! — Beds of hyacinth and roses, Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound, In slumber soft ; and on the ground Sadly sits the Assyrian queen.  Miltoni Comus - Page 116by John Milton - 1863 - 121 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1855 - 564 pages
...smells. Iris there with humid bow Waters the odorous banks, that blow Flowers of more mingled hue Then her purfled scarf can show ; And drenches with Elysian...dew (List, mortals, if your ears be true), Beds of hyacinth and roses, Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound In slumber soft,... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...scarf can shew, And drenches with Elysian dew tLiet, mortals, if your ears be true) Beds of hyacinth and roses, Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound In slumher soft, and on the ground Sadly sits the Assyrian queen; 2 But far above, in spangled sheen,... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1855 - 508 pages
...and its decay. Milton alludes to the story of Venus and Adonis in his Comus : — " Beds of hyacinth and roses Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound In slumber soft, and on the ground Sadly sits th' Assyrian queen ; " &o. APOLLO AND HYACINTHUS. Apollo... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 752 pages
...odorous banks, that blow Flowers of more mingled hue Than her purfled scarf can show, And diencjies with Elysian dew, (List, mortals, if your ears be...young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep woiind." be compared with the Paradise Lost, is th« Divine Comedy. The subject of Miltoa, ill some... | |
 | 1856 - 374 pages
...scarf can shew ; And drenches with Elysian <lew (List, mortals, if your ears be true,) Beds of hyacinth and roses, Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound In slumber soft, and on the ground Sadly sits the Assyrian queen : But far above in spangled sheen... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...the cedar'd alleys fling Nard and cassia's balmy smells. Iris there with humid bow Waters the odorous banks, that blow Flowers of more mingled hue Than...dew (List, mortals, if your ears be true) Beds of hyacinth and roses, Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound In slumber soft,... | |
 | John Milton - 1858 - 114 pages
...Waters the odorous banks, that blow Flowers of more mingled hue Than her pin-fled 52 scarf can shew, And drenches with Elysian dew (List, mortals, if your ears be true) Beds of hyacinth and roses, Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound In slumber soft,... | |
 | David Masson - 1860 - 282 pages
...are sure that the superiority of the Paradise Lost to Iris there with humid bow Waters the odorous banks, that blow Flowers of more mingled hue Than...Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound." the Paradise Regained is not more decided than the superiority of the Paradise Eegained to every poem... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 820 pages
...alleys fling Nard und cansia's balmy smells : Ino them with humid bow We .ere the odorous banks, lhal blow Flowers of more mingled hue Than her purfled scarf can show. And dlenrhe.s with Elystan dew, (bist, mortals. If your ears be true.) Bed* of hyacinths and roses. Where... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 134 pages
...cedar'n alleys fling 990 Nard and Cassia's balmy smells. Iris there with humid bow Waters the odorous banks, that blow Flowers of more mingled hue Than her purfled scarf can shew ; 995 And drenches with Elysian dew (List, mortals, if your ears be true,) Beds of hyacinth and... | |
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