 Awake, my mate! Shake off thy slumbers, and clear and strong Let loose the floods of thy glorious song, The sacred dirge of thy mouth divine For sore-wept Itys, thy child and mine; Thy tender trillings his name prolong With the liquid note of thy tawny...  The Quarterly Review - Page 3211915Full view - About this book
 | Aristophanes, Benjamin Bickley Rogers - 1906 - 410 pages
...Motley's Ferdinand and Isabella, i. 10. It was Phoebus whoresponded in heaven to the nightingale's Through the leafy curls of the woodbine sweet The...high Of immortal Gods, a divine reply To the tones of thy witching melody. The sound of a flute is heard tcithin, imitating the nightingale's song.) Eu.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1915 - 642 pages
...thy mouth divine For sore-wept Itys, thy child and mine ; Thy tender trillings his name prolong AVith the liquid note of thy tawny throat ; Through the...sweet The pure sound mounts to the heavenly seat, And Phoabus, lord of the golden hair, As he lists to thy wild plaint echoing there, Draws answering strains... | |
 | Aristophanes - 1920 - 158 pages
...my mate! Shake off thy slumbers, and clear and strong Let loose the floods of thy glorious song, 210 The sacred dirge of thy mouth divine For sore-wept...heavenly choir, And calls from the blessed lips on high 220 Of immortal Gods, a divine reply To the tones of thy witching melody. [The sound of a flute is... | |
 | Horace West Household - 1928 - 200 pages
...men, and bend both to serve their will : Awake, my mate ! Shake off thy slumbers, and clear and strong The sacred dirge of thy mouth divine For sore-wept...sweet The pure sound mounts to the heavenly seat, And Phcebus, lord of the golden hair, As he lists to thy wild plaint echoing there. Draws answering strains... | |
 | Moses Hadas - 1950 - 346 pages
...delightful, especially such a piece as the hoopoe's serenade to its mate (209 íí.) : Awake, my matel Shake off thy slumbers, and clear and strong Let loose...sweet The pure sound mounts to the heavenly seat. — BB Rogers In the other plays indecency is incidental; in Lysistrata (411 BC) it is central, and... | |
 | Aristophanes, Walter Kerr - 1980 - 76 pages
...sleep, my mate! Shake off thy slumbers, and clear and strong Let loose thy flood of glorious song. With the liquid note of thy tawny throat Through the leafy curls of the woodbine sweet Send thy pure sound to the heavenly seat Of Phoebus, lord of the golden lair, Who lists to thy wild... | |
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