 I'll fill a portly volume with the Coan garment's praise ; Or if her truant tresses wreathe her forehead with caresses, The tresses of her queenly brow demand her poet's lays. Or if, perchance, she strike the speaking lyre with ivory fingers, I marvel...  The Elegies of Sextus Propertius - xxiii 페이지저자: Sextus Propertius - 1875 - 283 페이지전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | University of Glasgow - 1874 - 314 페이지
...Supreme. PROPERTIUS.— BOOK II. ELEGY I. THE SOURCE OF THE POET'S INSPIRATION. To C. ClLNIUS MAECENAS. You ask me why love-elegy so frequently I follow,...love's delightful strife repose awhile be broken, O ! I could write an Iliad of our sallies and alarms ; If any thing at all she's done — if any word... | |
 | John Duncan Quackenbos - 1878 - 438 페이지
...resplendent purple robe of Cos my darling dresses, I'll till a portly volume with the Coan garments' praise ; Or if her truant tresses wreathe her forehead...tresses of her queenly brow demand her poet's lays." In another elegy he describes his Cynthia's charms: — " 'Twas not her face, though fair, so smote... | |
 | John Duncan Quackenbos - 1888 - 446 페이지
...resplendent purple robe of Cos my darling dresses, I'll till a portly volume with the Coan garments' praise ; Or if her truant tresses wreathe her forehead...tresses of her queenly brow demand her poet's lays." In another elegy he describes his Cynthia's charms : — " 'Twas not her face, though fair, so smote... | |
 | 1905 - 398 페이지
...from Calliope, nor is it from Apollo, If in resplendent purple robe of Cos my darling dresses, I 'll fill a portly volume with the Coan garment's praise...eyes a shadow lingers, My tranced mind is sure to rind a thousand themes of song. Or if for love's delightful strife repose awhile be broken, Oh ! I... | |
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