 | 1788 - 510 pages
...stair To Honour's seat, and Chastity's sweet bowre. Why stand ye still, ye virgins ! in amaze, iSi Upon her so to gaze ; Whiles ye forget your former...lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your eccho ring. " But if ye saw that which no eyes can see, 185 The inward beauty of her lively spright,... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 pages
...her body like a palace fair, Ascending up with many a stately stair To Honour's seat, and Chastity's sweet bowre. Why stand ye still, ye virgins ! in amaze,...lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your eccho ring. D3 " But if ye saw that which no eyes can see, The inward beauty of her lively spright,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 600 pages
...towre ; And all her body like a pallace fayre, Ascending up, with many a stately stayre, To Honors seat and Chastities sweet bowre. Why stand ye still' ye virgins in amaze, Upon her so to gaze, Whiles yc forget your former lay to sing, To which the woods did answer,and your ecchoring ? BUT if ye saw... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 610 pages
...pallace fayre. Ascending up, with many a stately «tayre, To Honors scat and Chastities gweet buwre. Why stand ye still ye virgins in amaze, Upon her so to gaze, Whiles ye furget your <brmer lay to sing, To which the woods did answer,and your eccho ring ? BUT if ye saw that... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 420 pages
...marble towre; And all her body like a pallaee fayre, Aseending up with many a stately stayre, To Honors seat and Chastities sweet bowre. Why stand ye still ye virgins in amaze, I : pon her so to gaze, Whiles ye forget your former lay to sing, To whieh the woods did answer, and... | |
 | 1825 - 364 pages
...saphires shining bright, Her forehead ivory white, Her cheeks like apples which the sun hathrudded, Her lips like cherries, charming men to bite, Her...were dedicated to the Countesses of Cumberland and Warwick. The dedication is not a little curious, and manifests something very like insincerity. The... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1825 - 370 pages
...palace fair, Ascending up, with many a stately stair, To honour's seat, and chastities sweet bo wre: — Why stand ye still, ye virgins, in amaze, Upon her...were dedicated to the Countesses of Cumberland and Warwick. The dedication is not a little curious, and manifests something very like insincerity. The... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...a palace fair, Ascending up with many a stately stair To Honour's seat, and Chastity's sweet bowro. lliam C. Hall s Whiles ye forget your former lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your eccho ring. " But... | |
 | 1825 - 368 pages
...shrils, the ruddock warbles soft ; So goodly all agree with sweet consent, To this day's meriment. Ah I my dear love, why do ye sleep thus long, When meeter...were dedicated to the Countesses of Cumberland and Warwick. The dedication is not a little curious, and manifests something very like insincerity. The... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1825 - 450 pages
...pallace fayre, Ascending np, with many a stately stayre, To Honors seat and Chastities sweet bowre. 1 80 Why stand ye still ye Virgins in amaze, Upon her so...lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your eccho ring ? But if ye saw that which no eyes can see, 185 The inward beauty of her lively spright,... | |
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Why stand ye still ye virgins in amaze, Upon her so to gaze, Whiles ye forget your former lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your eccho ring? 
