
America, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: L'Allegro (1631), Line 36
America, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
News for the Delphic Oracle http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1546/, st. 3
Last Poems (1936-1939)
Prometheus
Poems (1851), Prometheus
Vaghe Ninfe del Po, Ninfe sorelle,
E voi de' boschi e voi d'onda marina
E voi de' fonti e de l'alpestri cime.
Rime d'amore ("Rhymes of Love"), 175.
“Civil limitation daunts
His utterance never; the nymphs blush, not he.”
An Orson of the Muse http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/MeredithPoems2/00000028.htm (1883).
Source: Ode to Evening (1747) http://www.netpoets.com/classic/poems/017002.htm, line 21.
“I have lingered among the nymphs of Corot, dancing in the sacred wood of Ville-d'Avray.”
quote in a letter - late in Gauguin's life, from the Marquesas-Islands; as quoted by Colin B. Bailey, in The Annenberg Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-impressionism, publish. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009, p. 185
1890s - 1910s
“And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace
A Nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace
Of finer form or lovelier face.”
Canto I, stanza 18.
The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)
“Shepherd: Men are more eloquent than women made.
Nymph: But women are more powerful to persuade.”
Amyntas; or, The Impossible Dowry (1630; pub. 1638), Prologue