silva

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The frighted satyrs, that in woods delight, Now into plains with pricked-up ears take flight; And scudding thence, while they their horn-feet ply, About their sires the little silvans cry.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir

V You fawns and silvans, when my Chloris brings Her flocks to water in your pleasant plains, Solicit her to pity Corin's strings, The smart whereof for her he still sustains.

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Crow, Martha Foote

Shyest of the winged silvans, the cushat clapped not her wings away on the soft approach of her harmless footsteps to the pine that concealed her slender nest.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 476, February 12, 1831 by Various

The corresponding passage in the Bengal recension has “these silvans in the forms of monkeys, vánaráh kapirupinah.”

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

The woods recede around the naked seat, The silvans groan—no matter—for the fleet; 210 Next goes his wool—to clothe our valiant bands, Last, for his country's love, he sells his lands.

From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by Gilfillan, George