 | Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 264 sider
...themselves, being forced to shed " iron tears," as Milton finely calls them. The notes, as the poet says, " Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek." " The grim king of the ghosts" would not have shed them if he could have helped it. So Moschus,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 sider
...raise Musicus from his bower; Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, s seek. Or call up him that left half-told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarfife,... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 sider
...raise Musaeus from his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek. Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Cumball, and of Algarsife,... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1913 - 972 sider
...raise Musseus from his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek." CHAPTER XXV ARION — IBYCUS SIMONIDES SAPPHO THE poets whose adventures compose this chapter... | |
 | Helen Louise Cohen - 1927 - 402 sider
...Lander's Orpheus and Eurydice. Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek. In North America, a similar myth appears under various guises. The Yokut Indians relate how a... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1986 - 260 sider
...raise Musaeus from his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew Iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek. (103-8) Folktales recounted in L'Al over a cheerful mug of ale have in IIP a weightier counterpart... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 sider
...raise Musaeus from his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew Iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek. [103-08] And after his dreams, set in an harmonious Theocritean landscape, he hopes to hear the... | |
 | James F. Hopewell - 244 sider
...his queen. Orpheus sang . . . [and] no one under the spell of his voice could refuse him anything. He Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek. They summoned Eurydice and gave her to him, but upon one condition: that he would not look back... | |
 | John Hollander - 1990 - 280 sider
...raise Musaeus from his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew Iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek. It is interesting to observe that the parallel evocation of Orpheus in the closing lines of VAllegro... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - 1995 - 682 sider
...raise Musa2us from his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek.1 Other legendary bards or musicians were Linus, Marsyas, and Amphion. (3) The Poets of Mvthology.... | |
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Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age, Ennobled hath the buskined stage. But O, sad Virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string,... 
