| Richard Lovelace - English poetry - 1817 - 284 pages
...her, all the deities. Each step trod out a lover's thought And the ambitious hopes he brought, Cbain'd to her brave feet with such arts ; Such sweet command,...gentle awe, As when she ceas'd, we sighing saw The floor lay pav'd with broken hearts. So did she move ; so did she sing Like the harmonious spheres that... | |
| Books - 1821 - 408 pages
...each winding law and poise, And swifter than the wings of fame. • ***** Each step trod out a lover's thought And the ambitious hopes he brought, Chain'd...with such arts ; Such sweet command, and gentle awe," &c. In an epitaph on Mrs. Elizabeth Filmer, there are some fine lines, which shew that the vices of... | |
| Books - 1821 - 404 pages
...winding law and poise, And swifter than the wings of fame. * * * * * * Each step trod out a lover's thought • , And the ambitious hopes he brought,...with such arts ; Such sweet command, and gentle awe," &c. In an epitaph on Mrs. Elizabeth Filmer, there are some fine lines, which shew that the vices of... | |
| Henry Morley - Ballads, English - 1868 - 284 pages
...her all the deities. Each step trod out a lover's thought And the ambitious hopes he brought, Chained to her brave feet with such arts, Such sweet command and gentle awe, As when she ceased, we sighing saw The floor lay paved with broken hearts. So did she move : so did she sing :... | |
| Isaac Bassett Choate - English literature - 1891 - 356 pages
...and singing : — " Each step trod out a lover's thought, And the ambitious hopes he brought Chained to her brave feet with such arts, Such sweet command and gentle awe, As when she ceased we sighing saw The floor lay paved with broken hearts." A more playful exercise of the poet's... | |
| Edward Arber - English poetry - 1899 - 336 pages
...all the deities. Each step trod out a Lover's thought ; And the ambitious hopes he brought. Chained to her brave feet, with such arts, Such sweet command and gentle awe ; As, when she ceased, we sighing saw The floor lay paved with broken hearts. So did she move ! So did she sing !... | |
| Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1901 - 1190 pages
...even, Bearing the brighter nobler heaven, And, in her, all the deities. Each step trod out a Lover's thought, And the ambitious hopes he brought Chain'd...arts, Such sweet command and gentle awe, As, when she ceased, we sighing saw The floor lay paved with broken hearts. To Amarantha, that she would dishevel... | |
| City and town life - 1905 - 408 pages
...even, Bearing the brighter, nobler heaven, And, in her, all the deities. Each step trod out a Lover's thought, And the ambitious hopes he brought Chain'd...arts, Such sweet command and gentle awe, As, when she ceased, we sighing saw The floor lay paved with broken hearts. Richard Lovelace. To his Coy Mistress... | |
| William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1907 - 892 pages
...all the deities. ; Each step trod out a Lover's thought, And the ambitious hopes he brought Chained to her brave feet with such arts, Such sweet command and gentle awe, As, when she ceased, we sighing saw The floor lay paved with broken hearts. R. Lovelace 74, In Praise of Two hath... | |
| Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1909 - 636 pages
...her, all the deities. Each step trod out a lover's thought, And the ambitious hopes he brought Chained to her brave feet with such arts, Such sweet command and gentle awe, As, when she ceased, we sighing saw The floor lay paved with broken hearts. So did she move, so did she sing, Like... | |
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