The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 2Little, Brown & Company, 1860 |
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Page 29 - skyes, like flying pursuivant, Against fowle feendes to ayd us militant ! They for us fight, they watch and dewly ward, And ,their bright squadrons round about us plant | And all for love and nothing for reward : 0, why should hevenly God to men have such regard ! 3 During the while that Guyon did abide In
Page 152 - meet ; The silver-sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall ; The waters fall, with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all. 72 There, whence that musick seemed heard to bee, Was the faire Witch
Page 151 - despise." 70 Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound,. Of all that mote delight a daintie eare, Such as attonce might not on living ground, Save in this paradise, be heard elswhere : Right hard it was for wight which did it heare, To read
Page 147 - There the most daintie paradise on ground Itselfe doth offer to his sober eye, In which all pleasures plenteously abownd, And none does others happinesse envye ; The painted flowres ; the trees upshooting hye; The dales for shade ; the hilles for breathing space ; The trembling groves ; the christall running by ; And, that which all faire
Page 406 - 12 Next him was Feare, all arm'd from top to toe. Yet thought himselfe not safe enough thereby, But feard each shadow moving too or froe ; And, his owne armes when glittering he did spy Or clashing heard, he fast away did fly, As ashes pale of hew, and winged heeld ; And evermore on Daunger
Page 152 - For all that pleasing is to living eare Was there consorted in one harmonee ; Birdes, voices, instruments, windes, waters, all agree. 71 The ioyous birdes, shrouded in chearefull shade. Their notes unto the voice attempred sweet ; Th' angelicali soft trembling voyces made To th
Page 157 - steed thereof to him applyde. 83 But all those pleasaunt bowres, and pallace brave, Guyon broke downe with rigour pittilesse : Ne ought their goodly workmanship might save Them from the tempest of his wrathfulnesse, But that their blisse he turn'd to balefulnesse, Their groves he feld ; their gardins did deface ; Their arbers spoyle ; their cabinets
Page 14 - that none could weene Them to efforce by violence or wrong ; On every side they placed were along. But all the grownd with seuls was scattered And dead mens bones, which round about were flong ; Whose lives, it seemed, whilome there were shed, And their vile carcases now left unburied.
Page 148 - in his native hew ; For the rich metall was so coloured, That wight, who did not well avis'd it vew. Would surely deeme it to bee yvie trew : Low his lascivious armes adown did creepe, That, themselves dipping in the silver dew, Their fleecy flowres they fearefully did steepe, Which drops of christall seemd for wantones to weep.
Page 144 - whose fayre grassy grownd Mantled with greene, and goodly beautifide With all the ornaments of Floraes pride, Wherewith her mother Art, as hälfe in scorne Of niggard Nature, like a pompous bride Did decke her, and too lavishly adorne, When forth from virgin bowre she comes in th