 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
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 838 sider
...homely, slighted shepherd's trade, And stricljy meditate the thankless muse? Were it not better done, as others use. To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neœra's hair ? Miltm. Lycid. But why alas, do mortal men in vain Of fortune, fate or... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 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 JVetera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1845 - 356 sider
...homely slighted Shepherds trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Mute? Were it not better done, as others use. To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera'a hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 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 JVecera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 280 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 Ne&ra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise ( That last infirmity... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 sider
...homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And »trictly meditate the thankless Muse ! Were it not better done, Y Z [ h the tangles of Neœra's hair I Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That lost infirmity... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - 1849 - 388 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 Nraera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 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 Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, — That last infirmity... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 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 Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | 1852 - 874 sider
...homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse f Were it not better done, ath, or pain much worse ; Here Nature seems fulfill'd in all the tangles of Neiera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise {That last infirmity... | |
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