| James Hamilton - 1859 - 444 Seiten
...for her To wanton with the sun, her lusty paramour. Only with speeches fair She woos the gentle air, To hide her guilty front with innocent snow, And on...eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities. v But He, her fears to cease, Sent down the meek-eyed Peace ; She, crown'd with olive green, came softly... | |
| 1909 - 502 Seiten
...her To wanton with the Sun, her lusty Paramour. ii Only with speeches fair She woos the gentle air To hide her guilty front with innocent snow, And on...eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities. ni But he, her fears to cease, Sent down the meek-eyed Peace : She, crowned with olive green, came... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 Seiten
...GTBS; GTBS-P; LiTB; MeLP; NAs; NOCV; NoP; OBS; PoEL-3; WGRP On the Morning of Christ's Nativity 37 That measures all our time; (1. 19-21) HAP; JCP; NAEL-1; NOCV; NoP; OAEL- olive green, came softly sliding Down through the turning sphere, His ready harbinger. With turtle... | |
| John Milton - 1994 - 630 Seiten
...her guilty front with innocent snow, And on her naked shame, 40 Pollute with sinful blame, The saindy veil of maiden white to throw, Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities.6 But He, her fears to cease, Sent down the meek-eyed Peace; She crowned with olive green... | |
| Françoise Pellan - 1994 - 198 Seiten
...thé Morning of Christ's Nativity .,. str. 7, 79-80. Only with speeches fair She woos thé gentle air To hide her guilty front with innocent snow, And on her naked shame, Pollute with sinful blâme, The saintly veil of maiden white to throw Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so... | |
| Jean Bethke Elshtain - 1995 - 317 Seiten
...think of peace and war, and for the pitfalls in how each has been construed. THE PROBLEM WITH PEACE But He, her fears to cease, Sent down the meek-eyed Peace; She, crown'd with olive green, came softly sliding Down through the turning sphear, His ready Harbinger,... | |
| William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 Seiten
...conspicuously and unnecessarily concerned about guilty passion: Only with speeches fair She woos the gentle air To hide her guilty front with innocent snow, And on...eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities. This stanza is inartistic, not because of the conceit, which is perhaps appropriately grotesque, but... | |
| Thomas N. Corns - 1999 - 340 Seiten
...the virgin mother, consort to the Heavenly Father, cloaks herself in snow to cover her 'naked shame', 'Confounded, that her maker's eyes / Should look so near upon her foul deformities' (lines 43-4). This rather shocking reference to female genitalia brings the poem back to the creche... | |
| Betty Travitsky, Anne Lake Prescott - 2000 - 440 Seiten
...with mystic wisdom. 6. Arrive first. Traditionally, the Magi came on January 6 (Epiphany). To bide her guilty front with innocent snow, And on her naked...eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities. 3 But He, her fears to cease, Sent down the meek-eyed Peace; She, crowned with olive green, came softly... | |
| Patrick Cheney - 304 Seiten
...mortall blemish may her blot" (57,58,53,54). In Milton, Jesus's transcendent purity encourages nature To hide her guilty front with innocent snow, And on...sinful blame The saintly veil of maiden white to throw. (39-42) Chloris brings an olive branch to Elisa that symbolizes "peace, when wars doe surcease" (124-25),... | |
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