 Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath...  William Shakspere: A Biography - Page 240by Charles Knight - 1843 - 542 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1845 - 606 pages
...selection, for here we perceive, . •,._ « . . . daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim,...than the lids of Juno's eyes,. Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phosbus in his strength, a malady Most... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1845 - 604 pages
...their selcc-tion, for here we perceive, " . . . daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim,...than the lids of Juno's eyes,» Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength, a malady Most... | |
 | Miles Gerald Keon - 530 pages
...men of middle age : you are welcome." — Ibid. " Daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets, dim,...than the lids of Juno's eyes, Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength ; bold oxlips,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...that, frighted, you let fall From Dis's wagon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim,...than the lids of Juno's eyes, Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength, a malady... | |
 | L. C. Knights - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 326 pages
...that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's waggonl daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets, dim,...than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath. Classical myth— and it is especially appropriate that Proserpine should be invoked— is re-created... | |
 | Gisèle Mathieu-Castellani - Barock - 1980 - 262 pages
...c'est alors que s'élève la supplique: О Proserpina, For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before...than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength (a malady Most... | |
 | Celeste Marguerite Schenck - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 248 pages
...branches yet Your maidenheads growing: O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon! daffodils, That come before...than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength, a malady Most... | |
 | George T. Wright - Poetry - 1988 - 366 pages
...that (frighted) thou let'st fall From Dis's wagon: daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty: violets (dim,...than the lids of Juno's eyes, Or Cytherea's breath) pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength (a malady Most... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - Fiction - 1988 - 704 pages
...for spring flowers to compliment a young lord: "daffodils, / That come before the swallow dares, and take / The winds of March with beauty; violets dim,...sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes / Or Cytherea's [Venus's] breath" (I V.iv. 11 8-22). 9.656 (202:15). Whom do you suspect? - The punch line of a well-known... | |
 | Maurice Hunt - Drama - 1990 - 196 pages
...branches yet Your maidenheads growing: O Proserpina, For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon! daffodils, That come before...than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength (a malady Most... | |
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