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... Retrospective Review - Page 160edited by - 1825Full view - About this book
| 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
...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, Upon her...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 - 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... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 600 pages
...pallace fayre, Ascending up, with many a stately stayre, To Honors seat and Chastities sweet bowre. like is loth'd of them and thee ; And all, that lewdnesste love, doe yc forget your former lay to sing, To which the woods did answer,and your ecchoring ? BUT if ye saw... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 420 pages
...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 your eeeho ring? Hut if ye saw that whieh no eyes ean see, The inward... | |
| 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
...palace fair, Ascending up, with many a stately stair, To honour's seat, and chastities sweet bowre :— Why stand ye still, ye virgins, in amaze, Upon her...were dedicated to the Countesses of Cumberland and YVarwick. 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,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...a palaee fair, Aseending up with many a stately stair To Honour's seat, and Chastity's sweet bowre. ox'd in a ehair, the beau impatient sits. While spouts run elattering o'er the roof whieh the woods did answer, and your eeeho ring. " But jf ye saw that whieh no eyes ean see, The inward... | |
| Garland - 1836 - 246 pages
...a palace fair, Ascending up with many a stately stair To Honour's seat and Chastity's sweet bower. Why stand ye still, ye virgins, in amaze, Upon her so to gaze, Whilst ye forget your former lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your echo ring. But if... | |
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