 Does youth, does beauty, read the line ? Does sympathetic fear their breasts alarm ? Speak, dead Maria ! breathe a strain divine: Even from the grave thou shalt have power to charm Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee; Bid them in duty's sphere...  Musings of a Recluse ... - Page 54by John Barton Derby - 1837 - 180 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pages
...youth, does beauty, read the line? Does sympathetic fear their breasts alarm ? Speak, dead Maria ! breathe -a strain divine; Even from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee ; Bid them in duty's sphere as meekly move ; And if so fair,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...youth, does beauty, read the line ? Does sympathetic fear their breasts alarm ! Speak, dead Maria ! And the loud laugh — I long to know them all ; I burn to set the imprisone Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee ; Bid them in duty's sphere ae meekly move ; And if so fair,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...youth, does beauty, read the line ? Does sympathetic fear their breasts alarm ? Speak, dead Maria ! ng and a love That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or an Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee ; Bid them in duty's sphere as meekly move ; And if so fair,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...youth, does beauty, read the line 1 Does sympathetic fear their breasts alarm 1 Slieak, dead Maria! breathe a strain divine; Even from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them bo chaste, be innocent, like thee; Did them in duty's sphere as meekly move; And if so fair,... | |
 | Benjamin Moran - 1853 - 446 pages
...Does youth, does beauty read the line ? Does sympathetic fear their breasts alarm ? Speak, dead Maria, breathe a strain divine ; Even from the grave thou shalt have power to charm : Bid them be chaste, be innocent like thee ; Bid them in duty's sphere as meekly move; And if so fair,... | |
 | Arthur Cleveland Coxe - 1856 - 366 pages
...then, what an image of more than mortal beauty rises before us as we read — " Speak, dead Maria ! breathe a strain divine, Even from the grave thou shalt have power to charm." And did ever love paint such a portrait, in a few touches of passionate apostrophe, as in those in which... | |
 | Ferdinand De Wilton Ward - 1856 - 344 pages
...youth, does beauty, read the line ? Does sympathetic fear their breasts alarm ? Speak, dead Maria ! breathe a strain divine : Even from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent — like thee ; Bid them in duty's sphere as meekly move : And if so... | |
 | Silvester Tissington - 1857 - 560 pages
...youth, does beauty, read the line? Does sympathetic fear their breasts alarm ? Speak, dead Maria ! breathe a strain divine ; Even from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thce ; Bid them in duty's sphere as meekly move ; And if so fair,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pages
...youth, does beauty, read the line 1 Does sympathetic fear their breasts alarm? Speak, dead Maria ! breathe a strain divine ; Even from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee; Bid them in duty's sphere as meekly move ; And if so fair,... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 360 pages
...Does youth, does beauty, read the line] Does sympathetic fear their breasts alarm? Speak, dead Maria! breathe a strain divine: Even from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. 2 Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee; Bid them in duty's sphere as meekly move; And if so fair,... | |
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