 Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?  Bell's Edition - الصفحة 113بواسطة John Bell - 1788عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 452
...Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done,...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - عدد الصفحات: 788
...Lesbian shore? Whom universal Nature did lament, QQ Alas! what boots it with uncessant care And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done,...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neara's hair? To tend the homely, slighted shepherd's trade, ,55 (That last infirmity... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - عدد الصفحات: 584
...Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 7o (That last infirmity... | |
 | William Kerrigan - 1983 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Orpheus was the Antaeus of poetry. His strength descended from his mother,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - عدد الصفحات: 1172
...Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly be Hid in the tangles of Neaera's hair? 27 Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - 1993 - عدد الصفحات: 340
...Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? (lines 64 9) There is a typical Miltonic ambiguity or duality here. Writing... | |
 | Clay Daniel - 1994 - عدد الصفحات: 194
...asks, Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade And stricty meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? (64-69) The swain's question focuses on the two issues that the poem's... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 936
...Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade. And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done...use. To sport with Amaryllis in the shade. Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 70 (That last infirmity... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 708
...Alas, what boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely, slighted shepherd's trade And strictly meditate the thankless muse? Were it not better done,...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? (64-69) These lines must be read in their context. The sudden death of... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 294
...Alas! What boots it with uncessant care, To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade. And to strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? (11. 64-69) The rest of the poem's speakers will attempt, in one way... | |
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