 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pagina’s
...her bosom, be sure, is as cold. How the nightingales labour the strain, With the notes of his channer wned ; Yet he was strays, And pillages every sweet ; Then suiting the wreath to his lays, He throws it at Phyllis's feet.... | |
 | William Shenstone, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 324 pagina’s
...as bright as the snow, And her bosom, be sure, is as cold : How the nightingales labour the strain, With the notes of his charmer to vie ; How they vary...accents in vain, Repine at her triumphs, and die." 5 To the grove or the garden he strays, And pillages every sweet ; Then suiting the wreath to his lays,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 512 pagina’s
...as bright as the snow, And her bosom, bo sure, is as cold : How the nightingales labour the strain, With the notes of his charmer to vie ; How they vary their accents in vain, Repine at her trinmphs, and die." In the fourth I find nothing better than this natural strain of Hope : " Alas !... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 pagina’s
...And her bosom, be sure, is as cold ; How the nightingales labour the strain, With the notes of this charmer to vie ; How they vary their accents in vain, Repine at her triumphs, and die." In the fourth I find nothing better than this natural strain of hope : " Alas ! from the day that we... | |
 | William Harrison ainsworth - 1860 - 516 pagina’s
...qu'eile epandit.§ So again the shepherd in Shenstone records How the nightingales labour the strain With the notes of his charmer to vie ; How they vary...accents in vain, Repine at her triumphs, and die.|| The metamorphosis of Philomela has not, after all, removed her so utterly from the sphere of human... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 552 pagina’s
...is as bright as the snow. And her bosom, be sure, is as cold. How the nightingales labour the strain With the notes of his charmer to vie ; How they vary...her triumphs, and die. To the grove or the garden he strays. And pillages every sweet ; Then suiting the wreath to his lays. He throws it at Phyllis's feet.... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 526 pagina’s
...is as bright as the snow, And her bosom, be sure, is as cold. How the nightingales labour the strain With the notes of his charmer to vie ; How they vary...her triumphs, and die. To the grove or the garden he strays, And pillages every sweet ; Then suiting the wreath to his lays, He throws it at Phyllis's feet.... | |
 | 1866 - 522 pagina’s
...as bright as the snow ; And her bosom, be sure, is as cold : How the nightingales labour the strain, With the notes of his charmer to vie ; How they vary their accents in vain, Repine at her trinmphs, and die.' To the grove or garden he strays, And pillages every sweet ; Then, suiting the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1866 - 654 pagina’s
...as bright as the snow, And her bosom, be sure, is as cold : How the nightingales labour the strain, With the notes of his charmer to vie; How they vary their accents in vain, Kepine at her triumphs, and die." In the fourth I find nothing better than this natural strain of Ilope... | |
 | English poetry - 1867 - 336 pagina’s
...bright as the snow, And her bosom, be sure, is as cold : 140 How the nightingales labour the strain, With the notes of his charmer to vie; How they vary...her triumphs and die." To the grove or the garden he strays, 145 And pillages every sweet ; Then, suiting the wreath to his lays, He throws it at Phyllis's... | |
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Tis his with mock passion to glow, Tis his in smooth tales to unfold, " How her face is as bright as the snow, And her bosom, be sure, is as cold. How the nightingales labour the strain, With the notes of his charmer to vie; How they vary their accents... 
