 Who, as they sung, would take the prisoned soul, And lap it in Elysium : Scylla wept, And chid her barking waves into attention, And fell Charybdis murmured soft applause.  The Imperial Magazine - Page 3941834Full view - About this book
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...three, Amidst the flowery-kittled Naiades, Culling their potent herbs and baleful drugs ; Who, :is J : Scylla wept, And chid her barking waves into attention, And fell Charybdis murmured soft applause... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1882 - 1002 pages
...the Syrens three, Amidst the flowery-kirtlcd Naiades, Culling their potent herbs and baleful drugs ; Kilmeny begged agaiu to see The friends she had left in her own countr Scylla wept, And chid her barking waves into attention, And fell Charybdis murmured soft applause ;... | |
 | John Milton - 1882 - 396 pages
...the Sirens three, Amidst the flowery-kirtled Naiades, Culling their potent herbs and baleful drugs, Who, as they sung, would take the prisoned soul, And lap it in Elysium : Scylla wept, And chid her barking waves into attention, And fell Charybdis murmured soft applause.... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1882 - 906 pages
...sirens three, Amidst the flowery-kirtled Naiades Culling their potent herbs and baleful drugs, Who, &f they sung, would take the prisoned soul, And lap it in Elysium ; Scylla wept, And chid her barking waves into attention, And fell Charybdis murmured soft applause,... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled ! Line 249. Who, as they sung, would take the prisoned soul And lap it in Elysium. Line 250. Such sober certainty of waking bliss. Comus. Li I took it for a faery vision Of some gay... | |
 | James Worrall - Civil engineers - 1897 - 128 pages
...Circe and the Syrens three Amidst the flowery-kirtled Xaiades," quoted in the preceding text, ''Whd, as they sung, would take the prisoned soul And lap it in Klyshim." As an engineer Colonel Worrall did not affect details. He was moulded for the grand considerations.... | |
 | James Thomson - Seasons - 1891 - 458 pages
...melody. Thus described in Comus : — ' I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three, . . . Who, as they sung, would take the prisoned soul. And lap it in Elysium : Scylla wept And chid her barking waves into attention, And fell Charybdis murmured soft applause.... | |
 | John Milton - 1891 - 322 pages
...the Sirens three, Amidst the flowery-kirtled Naiades, Culling their potent herbs and baleful drugs, Who, as they sung, would take the prisoned soul, And lap it in Elysium : Scylla wept, And chid her barking waves into attention, And fell Charybdis murmured soft applause.... | |
 | Edward Brooks - 1891 - 398 pages
...the Sirens three, Amidst the flowery-kirtled Naiades, Culling their potent herbs and baneful drugs, Who, as they sung, would take the prisoned soul And lap it on Elysium. Scylla wept, And chid her barking waves into attention, And fell Charybdis murmured soft... | |
 | Samuel Dyer - English language - 1891 - 152 pages
...explains it in the phrase " My mother's lap " (Paradise Lost); and it is in Latin " grembio natalis." As they sung would take the prisoned soul And lap it in elysium.—Comus, 535. And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs.—VAllegro, 136.... | |
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