 | Women - 1865 - 380 pages
...love's arrows darting round, The other blushing at the -wound ? BB Sheridan. 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...of a Happy Life. Lord of himself, though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all. Ibid. You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light ! To his j\listress, the Queen of Bohemia. I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's BtufF. Preface... | |
 | Helen Gardner - Poetry - 1967 - 340 pages
...his Mistris, the Queen of Bohemia1 You meaner Beauties of the Night, That poorly satisfie our Eies More by your number, than your light, You Common people of the S\ies ; What are you when the Moon shall rise? You curious Chanters of the Wood, That warble forth... | |
 | Jon Stallworthy - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 422 pages
...at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent ! Sir Henry Wotton ELIZABETH OF BOHEMIA You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy...common people of the skies; What are you when the moon shall rise ? WOTTON • CAMPION You curious chanters of the wood, That warble forth Dame Nature's... | |
 | Herbert Pilch - Arthurian romances - 1996 - 264 pages
...Bohemia. You meaner Beauties of the Night, That poorly satisfie our Eies More by your number, then your light, You Common people of the Skies; What are you when the Sun shall rise? 48 H. Wotton, Reliquite Wottoniarue (London, 1651), p. 518 [sig. Y7~]. In this edition the final stanza... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...tried To live without him: liked it not, and died. 12769 'On His Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia' You and loved. 3915 Memoirs of My Life I sighed as a lover,...Memoirs of My Life Crowds without company, and di 12744 What are you when the moon shall rise? 12770 'Poem written in his youth' Untrue she was; yet... | |
 | Rutherford Aris - Mathematics - 1999 - 503 pages
...night" in Piccadilly with the first stanza of Sir Henry Wotton's "Ode to Elizabeth of Bohemia": You meaner beauties of the night That poorly satisfy our...number than your light, You common people of the skies: Where are you when the Moon shall rise? (Lest the AlChE ever have a meeting in New York again, I can... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 424 pages
...poetical reader will forgive the insertion: 'You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfie our eyes, More by your number than your light, You...common people of the skies ; What are you when the moon shall rise ?' [p. 12, ed. Hannah, whose- text I have followed. — ED.] — MALONE quotes, ' Micat... | |
 | Jane Stevenson - Fiction - 2003 - 340 pages
...remained with him, because it chimed with the words oflfa, and because it expressed what he felt. You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy...of the skies; What are you when the Sun shall rise? For all the difficulty of his position, he had no regrets whatsoever. He had never had any great expectations... | |
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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... 
