 | Harold C. Goddard - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 408 pages
...Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody? O thou dull god, why liest thou...Curling their monstrous heads and hanging them With deaf ning clamour in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes? Canst thou, O... | |
 | American poetry - 1923 - 748 pages
...sound of sweetest melody? O thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile In loathsome beds, and leavest the kingly couch A watch-case or a common 'larum-bell?...Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes? Canst thou, O... | |
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