 | William Peter - English poetry - 1847 - 568 pages
...— who shall then describe the fair? This my light Muse to thee high glory brings; When the nymphs' tapering fingers, flowing hair, And eyes of jet, and gliding feet, she sings. Book III. TROM ri.ii: v III. I, UM. as of youth the joyous hours remain, Me may Castalia's sweet recess... | |
 | Sextus Propertius - 1854 - 508 pages
...unconscious of the dead ; Nor, lingering at thy nameless grave, declare, ELEGY III. EFFIGY OF LOVE. HAD he not hands of rare device, whoe'er First painted...hair, And eyes of jet, and gliding feet she sings. ELTON. PART OF ELEGY IV. ON HIS POETRY. FEWER the Persic darts in Susa's bands Than in my breast those... | |
 | Walter Keating Kelly - Classical literature - 1854 - 524 pages
...unconscious of the dead ; Nor, lingering at thy nameless grave, declare, ELEGY III. EFFIGY OF LOVE. HAD he not hands of rare device, whoe'er First painted...hair, And eyes of jet, and gliding feet she sings. ELTON. PART OF ELEGY IV. ON HIS POETRY. FEWER the Persic darts in Susa's bands Than in my breast those... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - Authors, Classical - 1861 - 632 pages
...shame ! to others let thy arrows flee ; Let veius untonch'd with all thy venom swell ; Not me t In ., torturest, but the shade of me. Destroy me — who...hair, And eyes of jet, and gliding feet she sings. Elton. TO CYNTHIA, WHEN IN THB COUXTKY. Thongh, with unwilling eyes, from Rome I see Thy mourn'd departure,... | |
 | Walter Keating Kelly - Classical literature - 1880 - 542 pages
...venom swell ; Not me thou torturest, but the shade of me. Destroy me — who shall then describe the1 fair ? This my light Muse to thee high glory brings...hair, And eyes of jet, and gliding feet she sings. ELTON. PART OF ELEGY IV. ON HIS POETRY. FEWER the Persic darts in Susa's bands Than in my breast those... | |
 | Sextus Propertius - Elegiac poetry, Latin - 1881 - 604 pages
...these dry vitals dost thou joy to dwell? Oh shame 1 to others let thy arrows flee ; Let veins untouched with all thy venom swell; Not me thou torturest, but...hair, And eyes of jet and gliding feet she sings. 1 I have made some slight alterations in order to make it correspond better with Propertius' meaning.... | |
 | Sextus Propertius - Elegiac poetry, Latin - 1881 - 496 pages
...dwell? Oh shame ! to others let thy arrows flee ; Let veins untouched with all thy venom swell; Hot me thou torturest, but the shade of me. Destroy me...hair, And eyes of jet and gliding feet she sings. 1 I have made some slight alterations in order to make it correspond better with Propertius' meaning.... | |
 | Sextus Propertius, Aristaenetus - Latin literature - 1883 - 540 pages
...grave, declare, " This heap of dust was an accomplished fair." ELTON. ELEGY III. EFFIGY OF LOVE. HAD he not hands of rare device, whoe'er First painted...hair, And eyes of jet, and gliding feet she sings. ELTON. PART OF ELEGY IV. ON HIS POETRY. FEWER the Persic darts in Susa's bands Than in my breast those... | |
 | Sextus Propertius - 1884 - 238 pages
...; Nor, lingering at thy nameless grave, declare, , 172 FROPEBTTtlS. ELEGY III. EFFIOY OF LOVE. HAD he not hands of rare device, whoe'er First painted...hair, And eyes of jet, and gliding feet she sings. ELTOW. | PART OF ELEGY IV. ON HIS POETRY. FEWER the Persic darts in Susa's bands Than in my breast... | |
 | Sextus Propertius - 1885 - 488 pages
...dry vitals dost thou joy to dwell ? Oh shame ! to others let thy arrows flee ; Let veins untouched with all thy venom swell ; Not me thou torturest,...hair, And eyes of jet and gliding feet she sings. 1 I have made some slight alterations in order to make i' correspond better with Propertius' meaning.... | |
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In me are fix'd those arrows, in my breast ; But sure his wings are shorn, the boy remains ; For never takes he flight, nor knows he rest ; Still, still I feel him warring through my veins. In these scorch'd vitals dost thou joy to dwell ? Oh shame !... 
