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" In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint; In urns and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the flamens at their service quaint; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar power... "
The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine - Page 281
1866
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The Sacred Poets of England and America: For Three Centuries

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1849 - 578 pages
...spring and dale, With flower-inwoven tresses torn, The Nymphs, in twilight shade of tangled thickets, In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The...sweat, While each peculiar Power foregoes his wonted scat. Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With that twice battered god of Palestine ; And mooned...
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Christmas tyde, a series of sacred songs and poetical pieces [by S. Coleridge].

Sara Coleridge - 1849 - 240 pages
...flowre-inwov'n trefles torn The Nimphs in twilight fhade of tangled thickets mourn. XXI. In confecrated Earth, And on the holy Hearth, The Lars, and Lemures...plaint, In Urns, and Altars round, A drear and dying found Affrights the Flamins at their fervice quaint; And the chill Marble feems to fweat, While each...
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Christmas Tyde

Christmas - 1849 - 250 pages
...flowre-inwov'n trefles torn The Nimphs in twilight made of tangled thickets mourn. XXI. In confecrated Earth, And on the holy Hearth, The Lars, and Lemures...plaint, In Urns, and Altars round, A drear and dying found Affrights the Flamins at their fervice quaint; And the chill Marble feems to fweat, While each...
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The Historic Lands of England, Volume 2

Bernard Burke - England - 1849 - 262 pages
...singing sent ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn, The nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. In consecrated earth And on the holy hearth The Lars, and Lemures, moan with midnight plaint. disarranged the pewter and set the house in order, yet at the dead hour of midnight, his voice was...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...shade of tangled thicket mourn. In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemurs mourn th frozen snow upon the mountains, came Affright« the Flamen« at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...of tangled thickets mourn. In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemurs mourn bert BoSlim Forsake their temples dim, With that twice-batter'd god of Palestine ; And mooned Ashtaroth,...
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Composition, literary and rhetorical, simplified

rev. David Williams (M.A.) - 1850 - 162 pages
...gratulation." The circumstances described in this stanza of the poem " On the Memory of Christ's Nativity," " Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint; And...While each peculiar power foregoes his wonted seat," makes the reader, as Wharton, in his Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, observes, start and...
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John Milton: A Biography

Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 pages
...sighing sent : With flower'inwoven tresses torn, The nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The...While each peculiar power foregoes his wonted seat, About the same time he produced the verses written at a " Solemn Musick," which have been made far...
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Christmas with the Poets: A Collection of Songs, Carols, and Descriptive ...

Bevelled edge boards (Binding) - 1851 - 216 pages
...sighing sent ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn, The nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The...chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar power forgoes his wonted seat Peor and Baalim forsake their temples dim, With that twice-battered God of...
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Notes for Latin Lyrics

Rev.H. Musgrave Wilkins,M.A. - 1851 - 300 pages
...sighing sent : With flower-inwoven tresses torn The nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The...In urns, and altars round, A drear and dying sound And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar power foregoes his wonted seat. Nor is Osiris...
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