You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light, You common people of the skies; What are you when the moon shall rise? You curious chanters of the wood, That warble forth Dame Nature's lays, Thinking... Seventeenth Century Lyrics - Seite 58herausgegeben von - 1892 - 326 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Willem Bilderdijk - 1859 - 680 Seiten
...beanties of the night, That poorly satisfie oor eies More by your number, than your light; You eommon people of the skies, What are you when the Moon shall rise? 2. Ye violets that first appeare, By your pure purple mantles known Like the proud virgins of the yeare.... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 Seiten
...not Honour more. Colonel Lovelace LXXXIV ELIZABETH OF BOHEMIA You meaner beauties of the night, Which poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your...the skies, What are you, when the Moon shall rise ? Ye violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known Like the proud virgins of the year... | |
| Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 526 Seiten
...Est. I place it in 1620, before the fatal battle of Prague. ON HIS MISTRESS, THE QUEEN OF BOHEMIA. You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy...our eyes, More by your number than your light, You common-people of the skies, What are you when the sun shall rise? You curious chanters of the wood,... | |
| Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 552 Seiten
...Est. I place it in 1620, before the fatal battle of Prague. ON HIS MISTRESS, THE QUEEN OF BOHEMIA. You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy...our eyes, More by your number than your light, You common-people of the skies, What are you when the sun shall rise ? You curious chanters of the wood,... | |
| Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 560 Seiten
...the fatal battle of Prague. ON HIS MISTRE88, THE QUEEN OF BOHEMIA. You meaner beauties of the nig ht, That poorly satisfy our eyes, More by your number than your light, You common-people of the skies, What are you when the sun shall rise? You curious chanters of the wood,... | |
| John Williamson Palmer - 1861 - 540 Seiten
...gates swing inward, And she sees her baby there ! ROIlERT SMYTH CIHLTON. 408 YE MEANER BEAUTIES. YE meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes, More by your numbers than your light: Ye common people of the skies ! What are you when the moon shall rise ? Ye... | |
| Joseph Cundall - 1862 - 94 Seiten
...adulteries of art; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. -.'. BEN JONSON. TO THE QUEEN OF BOHEMIA. You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy...common people of the skies! What are you, when the sun shall rise? You curious chanters of the wood That warble forth dame Nature's lays, Thinking your... | |
| Elizabethan age - 1862 - 83 Seiten
...the adulteries of art; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. BEN JONSON. TO THE QUEEN OF BOHEMIA. You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light! 54 You common people of the skies! What are you, when the sun shall rise ? You curious chanters of... | |
| Elizabethan age - 1862 - 150 Seiten
...than your light ! TO THE QUEEN OF BOHEMIA. You common people of the skies ! What are you, when the sun shall rise ? You curious chanters of the wood That warble forth dame Nature's lays, Thinking your voices understood By your weak accents ! what's your praise When Philomel her voice shall raise? You... | |
| English poems - 1863 - 364 Seiten
...afterwards made Provost of Eton, and, to comply with the statutes, took holy orders. He died in 1639.] You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light I You common people of the skies ! What are you, when the sun shall rise ? You curious chanters of... | |
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