O'er the rich bosom of the ground, Quick spring the plants, the flow'rs around Here oft to raise the tuneful song The virgin band of Muses deigns ; And car-borne Venus guides her golden reins Strophe 2. The Tragedies of Sophocles - Page 92by Sophocles - 1820 - 406 pagesFull view - About this book
| Sophocles - Mythology, Greek - 1808 - 432 pages
...Here restless fountains ever murmuring glide, And as their crisped streamlets strayTo feed, Cephisus, thy unfailing tide, Fresh verdure marks their winding...Muses deigns ; And car-borne Venus guides her golden reins. STRO. 2. What nor rich Asia's wide domain, Nor all that sea-encircled land From Doric Pelops... | |
| Conrad Malte-Brun - Atlases - 1829 - 472 pages
...Here restless fountains ever murm'ring glide : And as their limpid streamlets stray To feed, Cephisus, thy unfailing tide, Fresh verdure marks their winding...tuneful song, The virgin band of muses deigns; And ear-born Venu« guides her golden reins. FornU on the north >nd the •outh of Hemm. If the island... | |
| Eliza Robbins - Bible - 1841 - 390 pages
...restless fountains, ever murmuring, glide, And as their crisped streamlets stray To feed, Cephisus, thy unfailing tide, Fresh verdure marks their winding way ; And as their pure stream rolls along O'er the rich bosom of the ground Quick spring the plants, the flowers around. Here,... | |
| Hermann Hettner - Athens (Greece) - 1854 - 248 pages
...restless fountains ever murm'ring glide, And as their crisped streamlets stray To feed, Cephissus, thy unfailing tide, Fresh verdure marks their winding...bosom of the ground, Q.uick spring the plants the flowers around. Here oft to raise the tuneful song The virgin band of Muses deigns, And car-borne Venus... | |
| Charles Kingsley - America - 1875 - 174 pages
...crisped streamlets play, To feed, Cephisus, thine unfailing tide, Fresh verdure marks their winding way. Here oft to raise the tuneful song The virgin band of Muses deigns, And car-borne Aphrodite guides her golden reins. Then they go on, this band of village elders, to praise the gods... | |
| Charles Kingsley - Literary Collections - 1880 - 448 pages
...crisped streamlets play, To feed, Cephisus, thine unfailing tide, Fresh verdure marks their winding way. Here oft to raise the tuneful song The virgin band of Muses deigns, And car-borne Aphrodite guides her golden reins. Then they go on, this band of village elders, to praise the gods... | |
| Charles Kingsley - 1880 - 448 pages
...crisped streamlets play, To feed, Cephisus, thine unfailing tide, Fresh verdure marks their winding way. Here oft to raise the tuneful song The virgin band of Muses deigns, And car-borne Aphrodite guides her golden reins. Then they go on, this band of village elders, to praise the gods... | |
| Edward FitzGerald - 1889 - 532 pages
...Here restless fountains ever murm'ring glide, And as their crisped streamlets stray To feed, Cephisus, thy unfailing tide, Fresh verdure marks their winding...Muses deigns ; And car-borne Venus guides her golden reins Strophe 2. \ From Doric Pelops named, contain, Here, unrequired the cult'ring hand, The hallow'd... | |
| Charles Kingsley - Literary Collections - 1890 - 442 pages
...crisped streamlets play, To feed, Cephisus, thine unfailing tide, Fresh verdure marks their winding way. Here oft to raise the tuneful song The virgin band of Muses deigns, And car -borne Aphrodite guides her golden reins. Then they go on, this band of village elders, to praise... | |
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