 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 560 pages
...the fatal battle of Prague. ON HIS MISTRE88, THE QUEEN OF BOHEMIA. You meaner beauties of the nig ht, 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,... | |
 | Elizabethan age - English poetry - 1862 - 83 pages
...adulteries of art; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. BEN JONSON. TO THE QUEEN OF BOHEMIA. You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light! 54 You common people of the skies! What are you, when the sun shall rise ? You curious chanters of... | |
 | English poems - 1863 - 364 pages
...afterwards made Provost of Eton, and, to comply with the statutes, took holy orders. He died in 1639.] You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light I You common people of the skies ! What are you, when the sun shall rise ? You curious chanters of... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 478 pages
...Eton, and, to comply with the statutes, took holy orders. He died in You meaner beauties of the night. You common people of the skies! What are you, when the sun shall rise ! You curious chanters of the wood, That warble forth dame Nature's lays, Thinking your voices understood... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 362 pages
...anil w'••'« restored 1-rlon. and, to cornijlv ^ « • O' *-* - «??-" l', "-i s. : t' "" w- ] You common people of the skies ! What are you, when the sun shall rise ? You curious chanters of the wood, That warble forth dame Nature's lays, Thinking your voices understood... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 438 pages
...virgins of the year As if the spring were all your own, — What are you, when the Rose is blown ? Ye curious chanters of the wood That warble forth dame Nature's lays, Thinking your passions understood By yout weak accents ; what 's your praise When Philomel her voice doth raise ?... | |
 | Emily Taylor - English poetry - 1864 - 210 pages
...true tears you're weeping. ' ' Ayres and Dialogues,'1'1 by Henry Lames. "653TO THE QUEEN OF BOHEMIA. OU meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy...of the skies, What are you when the sun shall rise 1 You curious chanters of the wood, That warble forth dame Nature's lays, Thinking your voices understood... | |
 | Woolwich roy. military acad - 1864 - 588 pages
...following quum in the subjunctive mood ? For Elegiacs : — Ye 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 1 Ye violets that first appear, By your pale purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins... | |
 | Henry Southgate - Fore-edge painting - 1865 - 398 pages
...The one, love's arrows darting round, The other blushing at the wound ? R B. Her Queenly Beauty. You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy...the skies ! What are you, when the sun shall rise ? You curious chanters of the wood, That warble forth dame Nature's lays, Thinking your passions understood... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1865 - 404 pages
...appearance here of his well known verses " to the most illustrious Princesse, the Ladie Elizabeth." " You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy...of the skies, What are you when the sun shall rise? You curious chanters of the wood, That warble forth dame Nature's lays, Thinking your voices understood... | |
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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... 
