 Venus' sweet delight, Of late had chang'd the tenor of her string To higher tunes than serve for Cupid's fight : Shrill trumpets' sound, sharp swords, and lances strong, War, blood, and death, were matter of her song. The God of Love by chance had heard...  Reuben Apsley - Seite 164von Horace Smith - 1827Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | English poets - 1801 - 382 Seiten
...and Venus' sweet delight, Of late had changed the tenor of her string To higher tunes than serve to Cupid's fight : Shrill trumpets' sound, sharp swords, and lances strong, War, blood, and death, were matter of my song. The god of love by chance had heard thereof, That I was proved a rebel to his... | |
 | George Ellis - 1803 - 468 Seiten
...Muse, that whilom us.'d to sing Fair Beauty's praise, and Venus' sweet delight, Of late had chang'd the tenor of her string To higher tunes than serve...fight : Shrill trumpets' sound, sharp swords, and lancet strong, War, blood, and death, were matter of my song. The god of Love by chance had heard thereof,... | |
 | George Ellis - 1811 - 472 Seiten
...Muse, that whilom us'd to sing Fair Beauty's praise, and Venus' sweet delight, Of late had chang'd the tenor of her string To higher tunes than serve...swords, and lances strong, War, blood, and death, were matter of my song. The god of Love by chance had heard thereof, That I was prov'da rebel to his... | |
 | Poetical rhapsody - 1826 - 294 Seiten
...Muse, that whilome wont to sing, Fair beauty's praise, and Venus' sweet delight ; Of late had chang'd the tenor of her string, To higher tunes than serve...sharp swords and lances strong, War, blood, and death, were matter of her song. The God of Love by chance had heard thereof, That I was prov'da rebel to his... | |
 | Francis Davison - 1826 - 608 Seiten
...Muse, te t whilome wont to sing, Fair beauty's pr^Siy4tnd Venus' sweet delight ; Of late had chang'd the tenor of her string. To higher tunes than serve...sharp swords and lances strong, War, blood, and death, were matter of her song. The God of Love by chance had heard thereof, That I was prov'da rebel to his... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1827 - 1150 Seiten
...praise, and Venus' sweet delight, Of late liath changed the tenor ofher string To higher tunes than nerve for Cupid's fight : Shrill trumpets' sound, sharp swords, and lances strong, War, bloud, and death are matter of my song. Sin WALVER RALEIGH. EMILY HARYPIELD, the Squire's sister, who... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - 1829 - 810 Seiten
...wanton Muse, that whilom wont to sing Fair Beauty's praise and Venus' sweet delight, Of late had chang'd the tenor of her string To higher tunes than serve...swords, and lances strong, War, blood, and death, were matter of her song. The God of Love by chance had heard thereof, That I was prov'da rebel to his... | |
 | sir Walter Ralegh - 1829 - 806 Seiten
...wanton Muse, that whilom wont to sing Fair Beauty's praise and Venus' sweet delight, Of late had chang'd the tenor of her string To higher tunes than serve...swords, and lances strong, War, blood, and death, were matter of her song. The God of Love by chance had heard thereof, That I was prov'da rebel to his... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Henry Wotton - 1870 - 322 Seiten
...Poem," with the signature " Ignoto." Thence in Brydges' and the Oxford editions of Raleigh's " Poems." Shrill trumpets' sound, sharp swords, and lances strong, War, blood, and death were matter of her song. The god of love by chance had heard thereof. That I was proved a rebel to... | |
 | sir Walter Ralegh - 1875 - 316 Seiten
...Poem," with the signature " Ignoto." Thence in Brvdgea' and the Oxford editions of Raleigh's " Poems." Shrill trumpets' sound, sharp swords, and lances strong, War, blood, and death were matter of her song. The god of love by chance had heard thereof, That I was proved a rebel to... | |
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