Colonial Ballads Sonnets And Other Verse PDF Download

Excerpt from Colonial Ballads, Sonnets, and Other Verse What wilt thou walk abroad in, Muse of mine? The violet peplos, such as in the shades Of Mitylene's gardens, Lesbian maids (Errinna and the rest) spun from the fine Milesian wools? Or round thee wilt thou twine Egypt's severer linen, till it lades Thy brows as it did Miriam's dusky braids? Or drape thee like Egeria at her shrine? Or, as thy vestment, choose the cloth-of-gold, Of later singers, richer dight than these, Which thou mayst borrow, an unquestioned loan, When want impels, to wrap thee from the cold? Nay, Muse of mine! in robe of unpatched frieze, Go, rather, thou, - if so it be thine own! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.