 O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall From 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...  Calendar - Page 316by University of Calcutta - 1908Full view - About this book
 | 1905 - 1004 pages
...lovely lines than those familiar ones which speak of 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, And Cytherea's breath. It would seem that the mere handling, as It were, of such images,... | |
 | Seasons - 1844 - 276 pages
...represents Perdita as desirous to present to her guests 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 Cythereas breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Authors - 1844 - 334 pages
...association does he here throw around early flowers : Daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty: violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Jimo's eyes, Or Cytherea's breath. See, again, the naturalist and the poet, in the following lines... | |
 | Celeste Marguerite Schenck - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 248 pages
...and yours, and yours, That wear upon your virgin branches yet Your maidenheads growing: O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall...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
...and the other girJs] That wear upon your virgin branches yet Your maidenheads growing: O Proserpina, For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall...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... | |
 | Marco Mincoff - Drama - 1992 - 148 pages
...that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon! daffadils, 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 primeroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength (a malady Most... | |
 | Richard Jenkyns - Europe - 1992 - 526 pages
...fall From Dis's waggon! Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of Mareh with beauty, violets dim But sweeter 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 164 pages
...That wear upon your virgin branches yet Your maidenheads growing. — O Proserpina, For the flow'rs now, that (frighted) thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon:...than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath) . . . It is as though the mythical transformative energies of Ovid's Metamorphoses have invaded a distinctively... | |
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