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" Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair; Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save! Listen,... "
Titan - Page 285
1856
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Bertha and Lily, Or, The Parsonage of Beech Glen: A Romance

Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith - 1854 - 360 pages
...and early loves," I said. CHAPTER XXX. Sabrina fair ! Listen where thou art sitting Under the glossy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies...knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair. MILTON. From the realms of " Shadow Land " I see thee mid the orient's kindling bloom, With mystic...
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The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton: With Life ...

John Milton - 1855 - 564 pages
...herself, In hard-besetting need ; this will I try, And add the power of some adjuring verse. SONO. Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under...sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save. Listen and appear to us, In name of great Oceanus ; By the earth-shaking Neptune's mace, And Tethys'...
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The Age of Fable, Or, Stories of Gods and Heroes

Thomas Bulfinch - 1855 - 508 pages
...describes to us Subrina, the nymph of the river Severn, in the Guardian-spirit's Song in Comus : — " Sabrina fair ! Listen where thou art sitting Under...train of thy amber-dropping hair ; Listen for dear honor's sake, Goddess of the silver lake ! Listen and save." The following are other celebrated mythical...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...herself," In hard-besetting need ; 'this will I try, And add the power of some adjuring verse. BONO Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting * Under...knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair : щ Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake ; *** Listen, and save ! Listen, and...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: A New Edition Carefully Revised from the ...

John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...was herself, In hard-besetting need : this will I try, And add the power of some adjuring verse Song, Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting Sabrina fair, .Listen where thou art sitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair; Listen for...
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A tribute to hydropathy

sir John Eardley Eardley- Wilmot (2nd bart.) - 1855 - 132 pages
...art of double nature — a Naiad as well as a Deity of the woods and fields, and not least lovely, " Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting Thy amber-dropping hair." To speak less allegorically, and therefore 66 EXERCISE. perhaps more intelligibly,...
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Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets

David Masson - 1856 - 494 pages
...up-stairs to the place of elegance and leisure. Take, for example, the following passage from Comus : — " Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under...sake, Goddess of the silver lake — Listen and save." What we say is, that if any man, having preconceived exactly the tissue of meaning involved in this...
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Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets

David Masson - 1856 - 528 pages
...with, if the medium had been prose. Thus, in the first passage, it was felt that the image of Sabrina " Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of her amber-dropping hair," would make poor prose too amorous. Again, in the passage from .^Eschylus,...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 26

1870 - 786 pages
...come up and drag Mr. Hopeton down. Let me invoke the real nymph of this stream ! " She iang: — 41 Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under...train of thy amber-dropping hair ; Listen for dear honor's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save ! " Madeline did not know what she was doing....
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English poetry, for use in the schools of the Collegiate institution ...

English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...about the courtly stable Bright harness'd angels sit, in order serviceable. EXTEACT FEOM COMUS. SONU. SABRINA fair, Listen where thou art sitting, Under...twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber- dropping hair ; Listen, for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen, and save....
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