 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 sidor
...that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ;...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
 | Charles Stuart Calverley - 1865 - 216 sidor
...that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Keturn, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams;...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 sidor
...engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus ; the dread voico is past, That shrunk thy streams; return Sicilian...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1865 - 444 sidor
...wear, When first the white-thorn blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear. * * * * * * * * Return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds,... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 sidor
...(worthy of Amos or Ezekiel), the poem yet once more drops back to the mode of pastoral: Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams;...And call the Vales, and bid them hither cast Their Bels, and Flourets of a thousand hues. [132-35] The power of this long floral offering arises from... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 sidor
...smite once, and smite no more." Retum Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; retum Sicilian Muse. And call the vales, and bid them hither...cast Their bells and flowrets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low where the mild whispers use. Of shades and wanton winds and gushing brooks. On whose... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 sidor
...added next a twenty-line catalogue of colourful flowers, beginning self-consciously: Return, Alpheus; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams. Return,...the vales and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. (132-5) The flower passage (in the composition of the poem, a happy afterthought)... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - 1996 - 294 sidor
...unworldly pastoral fantasy in which nothing exists except flowers, not even Amaryllis: Return Sicilean Muse, And call the Vales, and bid them hither cast Their Bells and Flowrets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds and gushing brooks, On whose... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 sidor
...the door Stands ready to smite once, and smites no more." Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is pass'd That shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse, And...the vales and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds... | |
 | Frank Lentricchia, Andrew DuBois - 2003 - 412 sidor
...concerns; and as a digression his gesture of reassertion is, in every sense, reactionary: Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; Return...cast Their Bells and Flowrets of a thousand hues. (Lycidas, 132-135) Once again the return of the speaker is marked by a rewriting that is a misrepresentation.... | |
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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. 
