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
| Arthur Henry Bullen - 1887 - 322 Seiten
...MY wanton Muse that whilom wont to sing Fair beauty's praise and Venus' sweet delight, Of late had changed the tenor of her string To higher tunes than...Cupid's fight : Shrill trumpets' sound, sharp swords, ami lances strong, War, blood, and death, were matter of her song. The god of love by chance had heard... | |
| Francis Davison - 1891 - 226 Seiten
...wanton Muse, that whilome wont to sing, Fair beauty's praise, and Venus' sweet delight ; Of late had changed the tenor of her string, To higher tunes than...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 Raleigh - 1892 - 326 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... | |
| William Baker - 1895 - 152 Seiten
...My wanton Muse, that whilom wont to sing Fair beauty's praise, and Venus' sweet delight, Of late had changed the tenor of her string To higher tunes than serve for Cupid's fight ; Shrill trumpet's sound, sharp words, and lances strong, War, blood, and death were matters of her song. The... | |
| Latham Davis - 1905 - 476 Seiten
...My wanton Muse that whilom wont to sing Fair beauty's praise and Venus' sweet delight, Of late had changed the tenor of her string To higher tunes than...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... | |
| John Clark Jordan - 1915 - 270 Seiten
..."My wanton Muse that whilom wont to sing Fair beauty's praise and Venus' sweet delight, Of late had changed the tenor of her string To higher tunes than serve for Cupid's fight. Shrill trumpet's sound, sharp swords, and lances strong, War, blood, and death were matter of her song." 174... | |
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