 IT is not Beauty I demand, A crystal brow, the moon's despair, Nor the snow's daughter, a white hand, Nor mermaid's yellow pride of hair : Tell me not of your starry eyes, Your lips that seem on roses fed, Your breasts, where Cupid tumbling lies Nor sleeps...  Selections from Tibullus and Propertius - Seite 215von Tibullus - 1887 - 380 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 408 Seiten
...farewell ! ANONYMOUS. THE LOVELINESS OF LOVE. IT is not Beauty I demand, i A crystal brow, the moon's despair, Nor' the snow's daughter, a white hand, Nor mermaid's yellow pride of Imir : Tell me not of your starry eyes, Your lips that seem on roses fed, Your breasts, where Cupid... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 1971 - 516 Seiten
...coolness of tone that expression attains throughout: It is not Beauty I demand, A crystal brow, the moon's despair, Nor the snow's daughter, a white hand, Nor mermaid's yellow pride of hair. This first stanza is the poem in little; the poem's procedure is only to expand from these properties.... | |
 | Robert Bridges - 870 Seiten
...Carofyne poem; its ferst stanza runs thus: — it is not Beauty I demand, A crystal hrow, the moon's despair, Nor the snow's daughter, a white hand, Nor mermaid's yellow pride of hair. Tht gross absurdity oftht second fyne cannot bt defended b$ tht aparent excuse that tht poet is contemptuously... | |
 | David Daiches - 1969 - 356 Seiten
...a Cavalier lyric in its imagery and movement: It is not beauty I demand, A crystal brow, the moon's despair, Nor the snow's daughter, a white hand, Nor...trembling lies, Nor sleeps for kissing of his bed . . . It is a little overdone, like so many nineteenth-century imitations of the Elizabethan and Jacobean,... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1872 - 718 Seiten
...THOMAS CAMPBELL. IT IS NOT BEAUTY I DEMAND. IT is not beauty I demand : A crystal brow, the moon's despair ; Nor the snow's daughter, a white hand :...that* seem on roses fed ; Your breasts, where Cupid tumbling lies, Nor sleeps for kissing of his bed ; A bloomy pair of vermeil cheeks, Like Hebe's in... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1902 - 704 Seiten
...The following are a few stanzas from it : — ' It is not beauty I demand, A crystal brow, the moon's despair, Nor the snow's daughter, a white hand, Nor...that seem on roses fed, Your breasts, where Cupid tumbling lies, Nor sleeps for kissing of his bed ; A bloomy pair of vermeil cheeks Like Hebe's in her... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1106 Seiten
...farewell ! ANONYMOUS. THE LOVELINESS OF LOVE. IT is not Beauty I demand, A crystal brow, the moon's rest On the lips that he has pressed In their bloom ; And the names he loved to he : -ff POEMS OF THE AFFECTIONS. Tell me not of your starry eyes, Your lips that seem on roses fed, Your... | |
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