 Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing ; To his music plants and flowers Ever sprung, as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of...  The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare - Page 233by William Shakespeare - 1826Full view - About this book
 | 1928 - 486 pages
...them, if thou canst ; leave working. Putting her stitchery aside her maid-of-honour played, and sang : Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain...that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing : To his music plants and flowers Ever sprung, as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Everything... | |
 | Poetry - 460 pages
...Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. Orpheus with his lute Orpheus with his lute made trees And the mountain...that freeze Bow themselves when he did sing: To his music plants and flowers Ever sprung, as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Everything... | |
 | Peggy Muñoz Simonds - Art and literature - 1992 - 412 pages
...importance of the Psalms to Protestant poets in England. 10 Conclusion: The Tempered Music of Orpheus Orpheus with his lute made trees. And the mountain...that freeze. Bow themselves when he did sing. To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung, as sun and showers. There had made a lasting spring. Every thing... | |
 | Mark L. Greenberg - English language - 1996 - 224 pages
...in which Blake had "written out, as prose, the six lines of Shakespearean rhymed verse which begin, 'Orpheus with his lute made trees' ['/ And the mountain...freeze, / Bow themselves when he did sing. / To his music plants and flowers / Ever sprung, as sun and showers / There had made a lasting spring.' (Henry... | |
 | J. Martin Evans - History - 1998 - 204 pages
...Hcnry VIII, the tradition of seeing Orpheus "as a model of the poet's powers" was well established:32 Orpheus with his lute made trees And the mountain...that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing; To his music plants and flowers Ever sprung, as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Everything... | |
 | Geoffrey Miles - Adonis (Greek deity) - 1999 - 474 pages
...soul grows sad with troubles. Sing, and disperse 'em if thou canst; leave working. WOMAN [.n«gy]: Orpheus with his lute made trees And the mountain...that freeze Bow themselves when he did sing. To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung, as0 sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Everything... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...riches Ready to drop upon me, that, when I wak'd, I cried to dream again. Caliban — Tempest IIIM Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain...that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing: To his music plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing... | |
 | Lecturer in Music Royal Holloway and Bedford New College Tim Carter, Tim Carter - Music - 2002 - 348 pages
...to recognize still more Monteverdi's remarkable achievement as a man of the theatre. 5 Orfeo (1607) Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain...that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing: To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 276 pages
...song of Orpheus and the power of his art to order a disorderly world, to stop time and remake nature : Orpheus with his lute made trees. And the mountain...that freeze. Bow themselves when he did sing. To his music plants and flowers Ever sprung, as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. (3,1.3-8)... | |
 | Jean Ashworth Bartle - Music - 2003 - 288 pages
...sound That breathes upon a bank of violets. Stealing and giving odour! King Henry V1II, Act 3, Scene 1 Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain...that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing: To his music plants and flow'rs Ever sprung; as sun and show'rs There had made a lasting spring. Ev'ry thing... | |
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