 WHAT hopes, what terrors, does thy gift create, Ambiguous emblem of uncertain fate : The Myrtle, ensign of supreme command, Consign'd by Venus to Melissa's hand; Not less capricious than a reigning fair, Now grants, and now rejects a lover's prayer. In...  Select Reviews of Literature - עמוד 4251812תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 דפים
...uncertain fate ! The myrtle, ensign of supreme command, Consign'd by Venus to Melissa's hand ; Not less capricious than a reigning fair. Now grants and...ghosts complain ; The myrtle crowns the happy lovers' beads, The unhappy lover's grave the myrtle spreads ; Oh then the meaning ot thy gift impart, And ease... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 דפים
...uncertain fate I The myrtle, ensign of supreme command, Consign'd by Venus to Melissa's hand ; Not less capricious than a reigning fair. Now grants and...myrtle shades despairing ghosts complain ; The myrtle erowns the happy lovers' heads, The unhappy lover's grave the myrtle spreads ; Oh then the meaning... | |
 | Dawson William Turner - 1874 - 130 דפים
...uncertain fate ! The myrtle, ensign of supreme command, Consigned by Venus to Melissa's hand ; Not less capricious than a reigning fair, Now grants,...heads, The unhappy lover's grave the myrtle spreads : Oh ! then the meaning of thy gift impart, And ease the throbbing of an anxious heart ! Soon must... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 דפים
...uncertain fate ! The myrtle, ensign of supreme command, Consign'd by Venus to Melissa's hand ; Not less capricious than a reigning fair, Now grants,...heads, The unhappy lover's grave the myrtle spreads ; Oh, then, the meaning of thy gift impart, And ease the throbbings of an anxious heart! Soon must... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 דפים
...uncertain fate : The myrtle, ensign of supreme command, Consigned by Venus to Melissa's hand ; Not less capricious than a reigning fair, Now grants,...myrtle crowns the happy lovers' heads, The unhappy lovers' grave the myrtle spreads : O then the meaning of thy gift impart, And ease the throbbings of... | |
 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 480 דפים
...complain ; The myrtle crowns the happy lovers' heads, The unhappy lover's grave the myrtle spreads; Oh, then, the meaning of thy gift impart, And ease the throbbings of an anxious heart I Soon must this bough, as you shall fix his doom, Adorn Philander's head, or grace his tomb." Verses... | |
 | James Boswell - 1880 - 488 דפים
...obligingly communicated to me by Mr. John Taylor, is the following attestation ;— BIRMINGHAH SI . Now grants, and now rejects, a lover's prayer. In...heads, The unhappy lover's grave the myrtle spreads: 0, then, the meaning of thy gift impart, And ease the thrcbbings of an anxious heart! Soon must this... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 דפים
...J. Montgomery. MYBTLE. The myrtle (ensign of supreme command, Consigned to Venus by Melissa's hand), In myrtle shades oft sings the happy swain, In myrtle shades despairing ghosts complain. The myrtle erowns the happy lover's heads, Th' unhappy lovers' graves the myrtle spreads. — Soon must this sprig,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 דפים
...command, Consigned by Venus to Melissa's hand), Not less capricious than a reiguing fair, Oft favors, oft rejects a lover's prayer, In myrtle shades oft sings...complain. The myrtle crowns the happy lovers' heads, Th' unhappy lovers' graves the myrtle spreads. — Oh ! then the meaning of thy gift impart, And ease... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 742 דפים
...uncertain fate ! The myrtle, ensign of supreme command, Consign'd by Venus to Melissa's hand ; Not less capricious than a reigning fair, Now grants,...heads, The unhappy lover's grave the myrtle spreads : Oh then the meaning of thy gift impart, And ease the throbbings of an anxious heart ! Soon must this... | |
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