Woman's Record; Or, Sketches of All Distinguished Women, from the Beginning Till A.D. 1850. Arranged in Four Eras. with Selections from Female Writers of Every Age
Woman's Record; Or, Sketches of All Distinguished Women, from the Beginning Till A.D. 1850. Arranged in Four Eras. with Selections from Female Writers of Every Age
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ...Her merits and peculiarities as a poetical writer may be seen in the following selections; the first from " The Pastime and Recreation of the Queen of Fairies in Fairy-land, the centre of the earth." QUEEN MAI!. Qneeu Had and all her company Dance on a pleasant mole hill high. To small straw pipes wherein great ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ...Her merits and peculiarities as a poetical writer may be seen in the following selections; the first from " The Pastime and Recreation of the Queen of Fairies in Fairy-land, the centre of the earth." QUEEN MAI!. Qneeu Had and all her company Dance on a pleasant mole hill high. To small straw pipes wherein great pleasure They take and keep time, just time and measure; All hand in hand, around, around. They dance upon the fairy-ground; And when she leaves her dancing hall, She doth for her attendants call, To wait upon her to a bower. Where she doth sit under a flower. To shade her from the moonshine bright. Where gnats do sing for her delight: The whilst the bat doth fly about To keep in order all the rout. A dewy waving leaf's made fit For the queen's bath, where she doth sit. And her white limbs in beauty show, Like a new fallen flake of snow; Her maids do put her garments on, Made of the pure light from the sun. Which do so many colours take. As various objects shadows make MIRTII AND MELANCHOLY Is another of these fanciful personifications The former woos the poetess to dwell with her, promising sport and pleasure, and drawing a gloomy but forcible and poetical sketch of her rival, Melancholy: --Her voice is low, and gives a hollow sound; She hates the light, and is in darkness found; Or sits with blinking lamps, or tapers small. Which various shadows make against the wall. She loves nought else but noise which discord makes. As croaking frogs whose dwelling is in lakes; The raven's hoarse, the mandrake's hollow groan. And shrieking owls which fly i' the night alone; The tolling bell, which for the dead rings out; A mill, where rushing waters run about; Tho roaring winds, which shake the cedars tall, Plough up the seas, and beat the rocks withal...
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