 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...nothing said, But 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 ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys... | |
 | John Bolton Rogerson - 1854 - 320 pages
...Heaven expect tby mead !' How delightfully fresh and descriptive is the following; invocation ! — ' Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ; return Sicilian Muee, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 980 pages
...it. It is the passage which contains that exquisite description of the flowers : " Return, Alphcus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flow'rcts of a thousand hues. Ye valleys... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...nothing fed : But 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 ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...and nothing said. Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw But that two-handed engine at the door 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 Ye valleys... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...nothing said ; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flow'reta of a thousand huea. Ye valleys... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...But that two-handed engine at the door I'M Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. ^efRetum, 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. 135 Ye valleys... | |
 | American essays - 1893 - 958 pages
...poet himself shows his consciousness of this in reverting from the digression to his theme : — " Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse." The Samson Agonistes has the form of a Greek drama, but its inspiration, like its subject, is far more... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...two-handed engine at tho door 1'ii) Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alphcus; 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. 133 Ye valleys... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...nothing sed : But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. 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. 135 Ye valleys... | |
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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. 
