It could be some little trait in these swains of yours, some unimportant mannerism that recalls that memory.
I've often suspected that you picked your swains by the length and lowness of their cars.
The swains in the field lay stretched in the shade, as though summer were already come: in gardens and court-yards not a sound of labour or a clatter of life disturbed the silence of the hour.
Even Theocritus minces matters, save where Lacon and Comatas quite out-do the swains of Ayrshire.
I have full seven sons, my lord, And each has thirty swains so steady, They to their loins shall bind the sword And up and help the beauteous lady.
So fast he speeded on his way, Him followed thrice ten swains so merry; But when he reached his castellaye The noble knight was solitary.
How Beauty Contrived to Get Square with the Beast Miss Guinevere Platt Was so beautiful that She couldn't remember the day When one of her swains Hadn't taken the pains To send her a mammoth bouquet.
The harvest swains and wenches bound For joy, to see the Hock-Cart crown'd.
Thus by the nymphs and swains adored, My power shall be again restored, And happy lovers bless my reign-- So Venus hoped, but hoped in vain.
Swains the vernal scene is o'er, And the vi'let blooms no more.
Not the wild herds of nymphs and swains That thoughtless fly into thy chains, As custom leads the way: If there be bliss without design, Ivies and oaks may grow and twine, And be as blest as they.
Twill be said, when ye have proved, Never swains more truly loved: Oh, then, fly all nice behaviour!
Come down with me to the Cities of the Plain," said he, "all you who are stout warriors; and leave we here the old men and the swains and the women and children.
Moreover, there will be a full score of swains not yet twenty winters old whom ye may not hinder to fight if anything is a-doing.
And the first that arose from table were the Sun-beam and Bow-may and Hall-face, with many of the swains and the women of the Woodlanders; and they went from table to table serving the others.
But when they came to the gate of the Thorp, there were assembled the goodmen and swains to meet them with torches and wine in their honour.
And when he saddest sits in homely cell, He'll teach his swains this carol for a song: 'Blessed be the hearts that wish my Sovereign well, Cursed be the souls that think her any wrong.
This does not appear to have the effect of depreciating their charms for on several occasions in the bosque I inadvertently caught amorous swains clandestinely exchanging kisses with these foul-breathed virgins.
There is a primitive park on the left of the road in which is an artificial lake, on which swains enjoy taking their innamoratas for rowboat rides.
Still more clearly does a later Greek poet personify the corn as Demeter when, in allusion to the time of the corn-reaping, he says that then "the sturdy swains cleave Demeter limb from limb.
Questions of this sort probably gave little concern to the sturdy swains who ploughed, sowed, and reaped the fat fields of Sicily.
The shepherd swains shall dance and sing For thy delights each May-morning; If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me and be my love.
And when I sadly sit in lonely cell, I'll teach my swains this carol for a song: 'Blest be the hearts that wish my Sovereign well, Curst be the souls that think to do her wrong.
That brilliant Court, with a goddess at its head, and full of charmingswains and divine nymphs, had also another side.
It seems to us odd that peaceful sheepcotes and love-sick swains should stand for the world of the Tudors and Guises, or that its cunning statecraft and relentless cruelty should be represented by the generous follies of an imaginary chivalry.
The shepherd swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May morning.
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