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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 151
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1904
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Comus: A Mask

John Milton - 1858 - 114 pages
...spell, If she be right invoked in warbled song ; For maidenhood she loves, and will be swift Sony. 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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Comus: A Mask

John Milton - 1858 - 106 pages
...: this will I try, And add the power of some adjuring verse. Son;/. Sabrina fair, Listen where them art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave,...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 Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connection with the Political ..., Volume 1

David Masson - 1859 - 718 pages
...maidenhood? Only let her presence be adjured by some suitable song! Such a song Thyrsis himself sings : ^ ' 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!" The lyric prolongs itself...
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The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, Volume 5

Edward Hungerford Goddard - 1859 - 494 pages
...currents, strikingly reminding us of the "tresses fair" of Sabrina, alluded to in Milton's Comus : — " Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under...twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber dropping hair." The R. peltatus, (Fr.) R. foribundus, (Bab.) R. Mchophyllus, (Chaix) and R. Drouetii,...
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The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art, Based Originally on ...

Charles Mills Gayley - 1995 - 682 pages
...stream," is but one refrain of many caught by the poet from the far-echoing chorus of classical verse : 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. Listen and appear to us...
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Rich and Strange: Gender, History, Modernism

Marianne DeKoven - 1991 - 268 pages
...her own liberation from the old text. The next passage Terence reads reinforces this interpretation: 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! It...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...let slip time, like a neglected rose It withers on the stalk with languish'! head. OAEL-1; PoEL-3 7 Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake. Listen and save. OAEL-1; OBS 307 POETRY...
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The Golden Age of Myth & Legend

Thomas Bulfinch - 1993 - 390 pages
...he describes to us Sabrina, the nymph of the river Severn, in the Guardian-spirit's Song in 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. The following are other...
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Transformations of Circe: The History of an Enchantress

Judith Yarnall - 1994 - 260 pages
...call, Sabrina, the nymph of the river Severn, comes forth. Who could fail to respond to such a song? Sabrina fair Listen where thou art sitting Under the...knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair, Listen for dear honour's sake, Beneath its lyricism and refinement, the song draws upon images of hair...
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Virginia Woolf: l'ancrage et le voyage

Françoise Pellan - 1994 - 198 pages
...Rachel : Her chief occupation during thé day was to try to remember how thé lines went : Under thé glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber dropping haïr i and thé effort worried her because thé adjecti ves persisted in getting into...
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