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" Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair; Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen, and save. Listen,... "
The Works of Lord Byron - Page 153
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1904
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The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton: With Life ...

John Milton - 1855 - 564 pages
...herself, In hard-besetting need ; this will I try, And add the power of some adjuring verse. SONO. Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under...knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair ; Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save. Listen and appear to...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: A New Edition Carefully Revised from the ...

John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...was herself, In hard-besetting need : this will I try, And add the power of some adjuring verse Song, Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting Sabrina fair, .Listen where thou art sitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair; Listen for...
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A tribute to hydropathy

sir John Eardley Eardley- Wilmot (2nd bart.) - 1855 - 132 pages
...art of double nature — a Naiad as well as a Deity of the woods and fields, and not least lovely, " Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting Thy amber-dropping hair." To speak less allegorically, and therefore 66 EXERCISE. perhaps more intelligibly,...
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Titan, Volume 23

1856 - 642 pages
...seated on her 'coralpaven bed,' and listening to the invocation which reaches her from above: — ' Sabrina fair ! Listen where thou art sitting Under...knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair; Listen, for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen, and save ! ' True to the text,...
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Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets

David Masson - 1856 - 494 pages
...up-stairs to the place of elegance and leisure. Take, for example, the following passage from Comus : — " Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under...knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair ; Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake — Listen and save." What we say is, that...
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Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets

David Masson - 1856 - 528 pages
...with, if the medium had been prose. Thus, in the first passage, it was felt that the image of Sabrina " Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of her amber-dropping hair," would make poor prose too amorous. Again, in the passage from .^Eschylus,...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 26

1870 - 786 pages
...come up and drag Mr. Hopeton down. Let me invoke the real nymph of this stream ! " She iang: — 41 Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under...knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair ; Listen for dear honor's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save ! " Madeline did not know...
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English poetry, for use in the schools of the Collegiate institution ...

English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...about the courtly stable Bright harness'd angels sit, in order serviceable. EXTEACT FEOM COMUS. SONU. SABRINA fair, Listen where thou art sitting, Under...twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber- dropping hair ; Listen, for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen, and save....
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8

1861 - 1050 pages
...form and trailing tentacles float among the waving fronds of colored Algae, like " Snbrina fair, • Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of her amber-dropping hair." THE YOUNG REPEALER. ABOUT eighteen years ago, when I was confined to two...
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Select specimens of the English poets, ed. by A. De Vere

Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal. SONG. Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under...knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair ; Listen, for dear Honour's sake, Goddess of the Silver lake, Listen and save ; Listen and appear to...
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