Since that dear voice which did thy sounds approve, Which wont in such harmonious strains to flow, Is reft from earth to tune those spheres above, What art thou but a harbinger of woe? Thy pleasing notes be pleasing notes no more, But orphans... Retrospective Review - Page 364edited by - 1824Full view - About this book
| Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1912 - 502 pages
...me, O where Sad true lover never find my grave, 1 5 To weep there. W. Shakespeare LXIII TO HIS LUTE My lute, be as thou wert when thou didst grow With...thee move, And birds their ramage did on thee bestow. 20 Since that dear Voice which did thy sounds approve, Which wont in such harmonious strains to flow,... | |
| Literature - 1914 - 540 pages
...modulation to the exquisite elegiac key that comes with the death of the beloved. " My lute, be as thou wast when thou didst grow With thy green mother in some...When immelodious winds but made thee move, And birds on thee their ramage did bestow. Sith that dear voice which did thy sounds approve, Which used in such... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1921 - 168 pages
...O where Sad true lover never find my grave, 15 To weep there. W. Shakespeare 63. LXIJI. TO HIS LUTE My lute; be as thou wert when thou didst grow With...Since that dear Voice which did thy sounds approve, 5 Which wont in such harmonious strains to flow, Is reft from Earth to tune those spheres above, What... | |
| Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - American literature - 1922 - 1920 pages
...relent, Rung from their marble caves " Repent ! Repent ! " 1623. 3 TO HIS LUTE MY lute, be as thou wast when thou didst grow With thy green mother in some...thee move, And birds their ramage did on thee bestow. Sith that dear voice which thy sounds approve, Which us'd in such harmonious strains to flow, Is reft... | |
| Eleanor Mabel Valentine Brougham (Hon.) - English literature - 1926 - 314 pages
...songs did sometime grace The murmuring Esk : may roses shade the place ! " My lute, be as thou wast when thou didst grow With thy green mother in some...When immelodious winds but made thee move, And birds on thee their ramage 1 did bestow. Sith that dear voice which did thy sounds approve, Which us'd in... | |
| Norman Ault - English poetry - 1928 - 566 pages
...weed, and will not come. Drummond. Ibid. hung] Mod. edn. ; hang, 1616. Sonnets MY lute, be as thou wast when thou didst grow With thy green mother in some...When immelodious winds but made thee move, And birds on thee their ramage did bestow. Sith that dear voice, which did thy sounds approve, Which used in... | |
| 1842 - 330 pages
...widow'd turtle still her loss complain. For this lugubrious coloring, he accounts, by the absence of " that dear voice," which did thy sounds approve, Which...flow, Is reft from earth to tune those spheres above. Milton is the last great name we shall presume to invoke on the present occasion. In a future paper... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...(1. 6—9) E1L; GTBS; GTBS-P; NOBE; OBEY; OBS; OxBSP My lute, be as thou wast when thou didst grow f a conquered woe; Give not a windy night a rainy morrow. To linger out a purposed (1. 1-4) E1L; GTBS-P. GTBS; OBS; Son Saint John Baptist 5 The last and greatest Herald of Heaven's... | |
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