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... queen to - night , And brimming cups are her delight . Nor is the juice that courses through The vine , and gives the grape its hue , More native there , than is the bowl Congenial to her festive soul ! Then take the water hence , my ...
... queen to - night , And brimming cups are her delight . Nor is the juice that courses through The vine , and gives the grape its hue , More native there , than is the bowl Congenial to her festive soul ! Then take the water hence , my ...
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... queen , Queen of streams that murmurs make . Juno thou , Lucina , hight By our dames in childbed throes , Trivia weird , and Luna bright , When thy borrow'd radiance glows ! Goddess , who in monthly wake Measurest thy yearly round ...
... queen , Queen of streams that murmurs make . Juno thou , Lucina , hight By our dames in childbed throes , Trivia weird , and Luna bright , When thy borrow'd radiance glows ! Goddess , who in monthly wake Measurest thy yearly round ...
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... Queen of Ida's height , Venus , when the prize to claim To the Phrygian judge she came . As the fragrant myrtle , found Flourishing on Asian ground 64 POEMS OF CATULLUS . THE EPITHALAMIUM OF JULIA AND MANLIUS NUPTIAL SONG.
... Queen of Ida's height , Venus , when the prize to claim To the Phrygian judge she came . As the fragrant myrtle , found Flourishing on Asian ground 64 POEMS OF CATULLUS . THE EPITHALAMIUM OF JULIA AND MANLIUS NUPTIAL SONG.
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... , predestinate to know The ceaseless tortures of a rankling woe , Wrought by the Queen of Eryx on the day , When cruel Theseus , from the winding bay Of the Piræus , trod with airy spring The halls POEMS OF CATULLUS . 85.
... , predestinate to know The ceaseless tortures of a rankling woe , Wrought by the Queen of Eryx on the day , When cruel Theseus , from the winding bay Of the Piræus , trod with airy spring The halls POEMS OF CATULLUS . 85.
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... queen , And all his race , save Phœbus , only thee , And Ida's nymph , thy sister twin , for she , Like as thyself , on Peleus look'd with scorn , Nor would fair Thetis ' nuptial feast adorn . When on the couches now the guests divine ...
... queen , And all his race , save Phœbus , only thee , And Ida's nymph , thy sister twin , for she , Like as thyself , on Peleus look'd with scorn , Nor would fair Thetis ' nuptial feast adorn . When on the couches now the guests divine ...
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Page 144 - Come, let us go while we are in our prime; And take the harmless folly of the time. We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the...
Page 186 - The whiles some one did chaunt this lovely lay; Ah! see, whoso fayre thing dost fain to see, In springing flower the image of thy day! Ah ! see the virgin rose, how sweetly she Doth first peep forth with bashful modesty, That fairer seems the less ye see her may! Lo! see soon after, how more bold and free Her bared bosom she doth broad display; Lo! see soon after, how she fades and falls away!
Page 170 - And being ravish'd thus, Come, I will drink a tun To my Propertius. Now, to Tibullus next, This flood I drink to thee; — But stay, I see a text, That this presents to me. Behold! Tibullus lies Here burnt, whose small return Of ashes scarce suffice To fill a little urn. Trust to good verses then; They only will aspire, When pyramids, as men, Are lost i' th
Page 186 - Her bared bosom she doth broad display; Lo see soon after, how she fades, and falls away. So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower...
Page 183 - Tell me, ye merchants' daughters, did ye see So fair a creature in your town before...
Page 194 - And strike to dust the imperial towers of Troy; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground. What wonder then, fair nymph ! thy hairs should feel The conquering force of unresisted steel?