 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 sider
...with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's...praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended ; Yet thou art higher far descended : Thee, bright-haired Vesta, long of yore, To solitary Saturn bore... | |
 | William Dowling - 1857 - 412 sider
...staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen, that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended ; Yet thou art higher far descended : Thee bright-hair'd Vesta, long of yore, To solitary Saturn bore... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 sider
...; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's1 sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen3 that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended : Yet thou art higher far descended ; Thee, bright-haired Vesta long of yore To solitary Saturn3 bore;... | |
 | 1858 - 460 sider
...with black, staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon'g sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's...praise above The Sea-Nymphs, and their powers offended : Yet thou art higher far descended ; Thee bright-haired Vesta, long of yore, To solitary Saturn bore... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Keightley - 1859 - 492 sider
...with blaek, staid Wisdom's hue ; Blaek, but sueh as in esteem Prinee MemnTm's sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above 20 The Sea-Nymphs', and their powers ofl'euded : Yet thou art higher far deseended. Thee bright-haired... | |
 | England - 1860 - 532 sider
...with black, staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's...praise above The Sea-Nymphs, and their powers offended : Yet thou art higher far descended, Thee bright-haired Vesta long of yore To solitary Saturn bore... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 574 sider
...O'crlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen* that strove To set her...beauty's praise above The. sea-nymphs, and their powers oflbnded: Yet thon art higher far descended: The bright-haired Vesta, long of yore, To eolitary Saturn... | |
 | 1863 - 326 sider
...black, staid Wisdom's hue, — Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starred ^Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea nymphs, and their powers offended. PERSEUS. As 'mid the fabled Libyan bridal stood Perseus in stern... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 108 sider
...assisted the Trojans, and to have That is, might become a princess been slain by Achilles, was the Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's...praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended ; Yet thou art higher far descended ; Thee bright-hair'd Vesta, long of yore, To solitary Saturn bore... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 586 sider
...black, staid Wisdom's hue ; — Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above 20 The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended : Yet thou art higher far descended ; Thee bright-haired... | |
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Goddess sage and holy! Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view... 
