The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of... The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Page 3171809Full view - About this book
| Robert Chambers - 1853 - 714 pages
...leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...; From haunted spring and dale, Edg'd with poplar jMile, The parting Genius is with sighing sent; FROM 1649. rom. JOHN MILTOH. With flower-inwoven tresses... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 pages
...leaving. No nightly trance, or hreathed spell. Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. " The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...heard and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn,... | |
| John Milton - 1853 - 344 pages
...The lonely mountains o'er, isi And the resounding shore, 172 Swinges] See Cowley's Davideis, p. 313. A voice of weeping heard and loud lament ; From haunted spring, and dale Edg'd with poplar pale, iss The parting genius is with sighing sent ; With flow'r-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight... | |
| Thomas Bulfinch - 1913 - 972 pages
...several deities were sent wandering in cold and darkness. So Milton in his "Hymn on the Nativity" : "The lonely mountains o'er. And the resounding shore,...heard and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-enwoven tresses torn,... | |
| William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1986 - 260 pages
...classical gods who haunt the "lonely mountains" and the "resounding shore": The lonely mountains o're, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard,...spring, and dale Edg'd with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent, With flowre-inwov'n tresses torn The Nimphs in twilight shade of tangled... | |
| Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...of man's primitive consciousness of forces that lie beyond his control: The lonely mountains o're, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard,...spring, and dale Edg'd with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent, With flowre-inwov'n tresses torn The Nimphs in twilight shade of tangled... | |
| Charles Mills Gayley - 1995 - 682 pages
...the dynasty of Olympus was dethroned, and the several deities sent wandering in cold and darkness. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...heard and loud lament ; From haunted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn,... | |
| Thomas Bulfinch - 1993 - 390 pages
...several deities were sent wandering in cold and darkness. So Milton, in his 'Hymn on the Nativity': The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...heard and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-enwoven tresses torn,... | |
| Gordon Teskey - 1996 - 220 pages
...change of sensibility that occurred when the psychological power of an old world order was purged: The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore...heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring, and dale Edged with poplar pale, io Prudentius, Psychomachia, 11. 28-35, ' nv °l- 3 of Prudence, ed. and trans.... | |
| David Haley - 1997 - 316 pages
...The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. . . . The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament. . . . In consecrated earth, And on the holy heart, The Lars and Lémures moan with midnight plaint.... | |
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