 His song was all a lamentable lay Of great unkindness and of usage hard, Of Cynthia, the Lady of the Sea, Which from her presence faultless him debarred.  Raleigh - Page 43by Edmund Gosse - 1886 - 248 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Martin Andrew Sharp Hume - 1926 - 318 lehte
...poets compared their songs. Ralegh's contribution to the conversation seems to have been a plaint, — "Of great unkindness and of usage hard, Of Cynthia,...Which from her presence faultless him debarred. And ever and anon with singulfs rife He cried out to make his undersong; Ah! my love's Queen, and goddess... | |
 | Milton Waldman - 1928 - 296 lehte
...excellence of his song is vouched for by the listener ; its subject "... was all a lamentable lay, Of great unkindness and of usage hard, Of Cynthia,...Which from her presence faultless him debarred, And ever and anon with singults rife, He cried out, to make his undersong : ' Ah, my love's queen, and... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1889 - 592 lehte
...poem that he ' piped ' in response to some of Spenser's own : — ' His song was all a lamentable lay Of great unkindness and of usage hard, Of Cynthia,...Sea, Which from her presence faultless him debarred.' Of the original poem which is thus circumstantially described, it is not known that we possess a single... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - 1895 - 520 lehte
...skill he conned) Himself as skilful in that art as any. And how the song — Was all a lamentable lay Of great unkindness and of usage hard, Of Cynthia,...Which from her presence faultless him debarred, And ever and anon, with singulfs [sighs] rife He cried out, to make his undersong — Ah ! my love's Queen... | |
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