 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 - Side 2321823Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Thomas Smibert - 1852 - 126 sider
...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 Nesera's hair ? " This most melodious passage has often been quoted, but the source... | |
 | 1853 - 560 sider
...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 Nesera's hair'? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise ( That last infirmity... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 sider
...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 Nesera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 564 sider
...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 Neoera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 sider
...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 Nercca's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise — That last infirmity... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 sider
...slighted shepherd's trade, $5 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 Neicra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, 70 (That last infirmity... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 274 sider
...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 Nesera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 sider
...slighted shepherd's trade, (55 And strictly meditate the thankless Muse 1 Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of N Basra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, 70 (That last infirmity... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 sider
...homely, slighted, shepherd's trade. And strictly meditate the thankless Muse J Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangle* ofJVeara'i hair 1 Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise •;"/'.',,,,» l,i-!... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 sider
...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 N'esera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That list infirmity... | |
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