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" Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alpheus; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams: return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. "
A Compendium of English Literautre: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ... - Page 247
by Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863
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A household book of English poetry, selected with notes by R.C. Trench

Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...contagion spread : Beside what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said : But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands...brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showers,...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: To which is Prefixed a Biography of the ...

John Milton, Edward Phillips - 1868 - 632 pages
...grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return,...hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand lines. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks,...
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The public school speaker and reader, ed. by J.E. Carpenter

Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...wolf, with privy paw, Daily devours apace, and nothing said : But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return,...cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose...
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Class-book of Science and Literature

Class-book - 1869 - 344 pages
...two-handed engine 7 at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.' Return, Alpheus,8 the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ;...hues. 135 Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use frequent 1 ^Eolnfl, son of Hippotes, and ruier of tne winds. a One of the daughters of the sea-god...
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A Household Book of English Poetry: Selected and Arranged, with Notes

Richard Chenevix Trench - 1870 - 466 pages
...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said : But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk...brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showers,...
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Favourite English poems and poets

English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said : But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return,...cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. .Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose...
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English poems, ed. with life, intr. and selected notes by R.C. Browne, Volume 1

John Milton - 1870 - 436 pages
...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed ; But that two-handed engine at the door 13° Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowrets of a thousand hues. 135 Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds,...
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A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla

Leigh Hunt - 1870 - 288 pages
...encourage, in those lovely verses, the beautiful fictions of Paganism and Theocritus to come back : — Return, Alpheus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk...cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose...
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A Household Book of English Poetry, Issue 160

1870 - 462 pages
...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said : But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk...cast Their bells, and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose...
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Milton's Samson agonistes and Lycidas, with notes etc., by J. Hunter, Volume 45

John Milton - 1870 - 116 pages
...that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.' Eeturn, Alphelia, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ;...cast Their bells, and flowerets of a thousand hues. ~Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks ; On whose...
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