 Their merry wakes and pastimes keep : What hath night to do with sleep? Night hath better sweets to prove; Venus now wakes, and wakens Love. Come, let us our rites begin; Tis only daylight that makes sin, Which these dun shades will ne'er report. Hail,...  The Poetical Works of John Milton - Pagina 159door John Milton - 1852Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Edward Walford - 1867 - 84 pagina’s
...watchful spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years. Hail, Goddess of nocturnal sport, Dark veiled Cotytto ! to whom the secret flame Of midnight torches burns ; mysterious dame That ne'er art called, but when the dragon womb Of Stygian darkness spits her thickest gloom, Befriend Us thy vow'd... | |
 | Juvénal - 1867 - 546 pagina’s
...(Horace, Epod. xvii. 56, n.) Milton refers to them in words partly borrowed from Juvenal : " Dark veiled Cotytto, to whom the secret flame Of midnight torches burns, mysterious dame, That ne'er art called but when the dragon womb Of Stygian darkness spits her thickest gloom." (Comua.) [After v. 90,... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Phillips - 1868 - 632 pagina’s
...elves. By dimpled brook, and fountain brim, The wood-nymphs, deck'd with daisies trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep : What hath night to do with sleep...dragon womb Of Stygian darkness spits her thickest gloom, And makes one blot of all the air, Stay thy cloudy ebon chair, Wherein thou rid'st with Hecate,... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1868 - 282 pagina’s
...elves. By dimpled brook and fountain-brim, The Wood-nymphs, deck'd with daisies trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep : What hath night to do with sleep...Hail goddess of nocturnal sport, Dark-veil'd Cotytto, t' whom the secret flame Of mid-night torches burns ; mysterious dame, That ne'er art call'd but when... | |
 | Edward King - 1868 - 348 pagina’s
...might I say with the lady in " Comus ; " and this further, concerning the music,' with Comus himself: " What hath night to do with sleep ? Night hath better...our rites begin, 'Tis only daylight that makes sin. Come, knit hands, and beat the ground In a light, fantastic round." I passed a long shooting-gallery,... | |
 | Edmondstoune Duncan - 1927 - 634 pagina’s
...elves ; By dimpled brook and fountain brim The wood nymphs decked with daisies trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep : What hath night to do with sleep...will ne'er report. Hail, goddess of nocturnal sport, Dark-veiled Cotytto, to whom the secret flame Of midnight torches burns ! Mysterious dame, That ne'er... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 pagina’s
...Bj dimpled brook and fountain-brim, The Wood-Nymphs, decked with daisies trim, 120 Their merry wakes B%; 125 'T is only daylight that makes sin, Which these dun shades will ne'er report. Hail, goddess of... | |
 | Edmondstoune Duncan - 1927 - 658 pagina’s
...elves ; By dimpled brook and fountain brim The wood nymphs decked with daisies trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep : What hath night to do with sleep...wakes, and wakens Love. Come, let us our rites begin — "Pis only daylight that makes sin — Which these dun shades will ne'er report. Hail, goddess of... | |
 | John Milton - 2000 - 412 pagina’s
...By dimpled Brook, and Fountain brim, The Wood-Nymphs deckt with Daisies trim, 120 Their merry wakes and pastimes keep: What hath night to do with sleep?...hath better sweets to prove, Venus now wakes, and wak'ns Love. Com let us our rights begin, us 'Tis onely day-light that makes Sin Which these dun shades... | |
 | 1909 - 502 pagina’s
...Elves. By dimpled brook and fountain-brim, The Wood-Nymphs, decked with daisies trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep: What hath night to do with sleep?...wakes, and wakens Love. Come, let us our rites begin; T is only daylight that makes sin, Which these dun shades will ne'er report. Hail, goddess of nocturnal... | |
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