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" And drenches with Elysian dew — List, mortals, if your ears be true ! — Beds of hyacinth and roses, Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound, In slumber soft ; and on the ground Sadly sits the Assyrian queen. "
Miltoni Comus. Græce reddidit Georgius Baro Lyttelton - Page 118
by John Milton - 1863 - 121 pages
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A Hand-book of English Literature Intended for the Use of High Schools, as ...

Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...the cedared alleys fling Nard and cassia's balmy smells. Iris there with humid bow Waters the odorous banks, that blow Flowers of more mingled hue Than her purfled scarf can shew ; And drenches with Elysian dew (List, mortals, if your ears be true) Beds of hyacinth and roses,...
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The poetical works John Milton. Repr., with memoir, notes, &c, Issue 477

John Milton - 1873 - 606 pages
...had Hardens, or orchards, which produced apples of gold. Iris there with humid bow Waters the odorous banks, that blow Flowers of more mingled hue Than...Elysian dew (List mortals, if your ears be true) Beds of hyacinth and roses, Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound In slumber soft,...
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Anthologia Anglica, a new selection from the English poets from Spenser to ...

Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 pages
...the cedar'd alleys fling Nard and cassia's balmy smells. Iris there with humid bow Waters the odorous banks, that blow Flowers of more mingled hue Than...dew ( List, mortals, if your ears be true) Beds of hyacinth and roses, "Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound In slumber soft,...
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Poetical Works: Volume 2. Paradise Regain'd; Samson Agonistes; Poems Upon ...

John Milton - 2000 - 412 pages
...Waters the odorous banks that blow Flowers of more mingled hew Then her purfl'd scarf can shew, 995 And drenches with Elysian dew (List mortals, if your ears be true) Beds of Hyacinth, and roses Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound 1000 988 There] Erratum...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 4

1909 - 502 pages
...the cedarn alleys fling Nard and cassia's balmy smells. Iris there with humid bow Waters the odorous banks, that blow Flowers of more mingled hue Than her purfled scarf can shew, And drenches with Elysian dew (List mortals, if your ears be true) Beds of hyacinth and roses,...
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Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, Legends of ...

Thomas Bulfinch - 1913 - 972 pages
...production and its decay. Milton alludes to the story of Venus and Adonis in his "Comus" : "Beds of hyacinth and roses Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound In slumber soft, and on the ground Sadly sits th' Assyrian queen;" etc. APOLLO AND HYACINTHUS Apollo...
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Milton's Earthly Paradise: A Historical Study of Eden

Joseph Ellis Duncan - 1972 - 349 pages
...bow, Waters the odorous banks that blow Flowers of more mingled hew Than her purfl'd scarf can shew And drenches with Elysian dew (List mortals if your ears be true) Beds of Hyacinth, and Roses Where young Adonis oft reposes . . . (979-98) Fusing the traditional elements of...
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The Sacred Complex: On the Psychogenesis of Paradise Lost

William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 pages
...Queene43 without dread of "that foe of his": (List mortals, if your ears be true) Beds of Hyacinth and Roses Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound In slumber soft, and on the ground Sadly sits th' Assyrian Queen. (997-1002) In the sky above this...
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The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art, Based Originally on ...

Charles Mills Gayley - 1995 - 682 pages
...the cedarn alleys fling Nard and cassia's balmy smells. Iris there with humid bow Waters the odorous banks, that blow Flowers of more mingled hue Than her purfled scarf can shew. And Tennyson taking the lines as a text has written the melodious and mystic song of the Hesperides,...
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Milton's Earthly Paradise: A Historical Study of Eden

Joseph E. Duncan - 1972 - 349 pages
...bow, Waters the odorous banks that blow Flowers of more mingled hew Than her purfl'd scarf can shew And drenches with Elysian dew (List mortals if your ears be true) Beds of Hyacinth, and Roses Where young Adonis oft reposes . . . (979-98) Fusing the traditional elements of...
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