 Alas! what boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?  Blackwood's Magazine - Seite 2321823Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 838 Seiten
...homely, slighted shepherd's trade, And stricljy meditate the thankless muse? Were it not better done, as others use. To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neœra's hair ? Miltm. Lycid. But why alas, do mortal men in vain Of fortune, fate or... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 Seiten
...homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of JVetera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1845 - 356 Seiten
...homely slighted Shepherds trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Mute? Were it not better done, as others use. To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera'a hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 Seiten
...homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of JVecera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 280 Seiten
...homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Ne&ra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise ( That last infirmity... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 Seiten
...homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And »trictly meditate the thankless Muse ! Were it not better done, Y Z [ h the tangles of Neœra's hair I Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That lost infirmity... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - 1849 - 388 Seiten
...homely, slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ! Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nraera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 Seiten
...homely, slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, — That last infirmity... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 Seiten
...homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | 1852 - 874 Seiten
...homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse f Were it not better done, ath, or pain much worse ; Here Nature seems fulfill'd in all the tangles of Neiera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise {That last infirmity... | |
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