 | Music - 1857 - 854 pages
...not apply the words of an old poet, who thus sang the praises of the mistress of the skies :— " You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy...your number than your light, You common people of the ekies, What are you when the moon shall rise ?" For is not Alboni the moon among the stars of Her Majesty's... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 334 pages
...HEHHY WoTios, born 1568, dicd 1639. You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our ejes More by your number than your light, — You common people of the skies, What are you when the moon shall rise ? Ye violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Ye curious chanters... | |
 | English poetry - 1858 - 336 pages
...been set to music and printed 1024. You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfie our eies More by your number, than your light ; You common people of the skies, What are you when the Moon shall rise? s Ye violets that first appeare, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - Princesses - 1859 - 436 pages
...proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own ; What are ye when the rose is blown ? Ye meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes, More by your number than your light; Ye common people of the skies ! What are ye when the sun doth rise 1 So when my mistress shall be seen... | |
 | baroness Rosina Doyle Bulwer- Lytton - 1859 - 464 pages
...heart. I. " You meaner beauties of the night That poorly satisfie our eyes, More by your number than yo You common people of the skies, What are you when the sun shall rise ? II. " You curious chaunters of the wood That warble forth Dame Nature's layes, Thiuking your passions... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1865 - 616 pages
...unapproachable. He is the sun, and his competitors are but stars; and he may say to them, You little people of the skies. What are you when the sun shall rise ? Thanks to the sangaree and the cabanas, I laid the ghost of Yellow Jack five fathom five beneath... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...not Honour more. Colonel Lovelace LXXXIV ELIZABETH OF BOHEMIA You meaner beauties of the night, Which poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your...common people of the skies, What are you, when the Moon shall rise ? Ye violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known Like the proud virgins... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 552 pages
...Est. I place it in 1620, before the fatal battle of Prague. ON HIS MISTRESS, THE QUEEN OF BOHEMIA. You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes, More by your number than your light, You common-people of the skies, What are you when the sun shall rise ? You curious chanters of the wood,... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 526 pages
...Est. I place it in 1620, before the fatal battle of Prague. ON HIS MISTRESS, THE QUEEN OF BOHEMIA. You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes, More by your number than your light, You common-people of the skies, What are you when the sun shall rise? You curious chanters of the wood,... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - Folk songs - 1861 - 540 pages
...gates swing inward, And she sees her baby there ! ROIlERT SMYTH CIHLTON. 408 YE MEANER BEAUTIES. YE meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes, More by your numbers than your light: Ye common people of the skies ! What are you when the moon shall rise ? Ye... | |
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You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light, You common people of the skies; What are you when the moon shall rise... 
