Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendent drops of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silence. Poems - Page 161by William Cowper - 1821Full view - About this book
| John Stoddart - Scotland - 1801 - 402 pages
...I was more than once reminded most fccibly of that beautifully descriptive passage, in the "ask : " The redbreast warbles still ; but is content With slender notes and more than half supprest Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests, he shaks... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...The roof, though moveable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well suffic'd, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes,...is content With slender notes, and more than half suppress*d : Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he... | |
| Health - 1802 - 302 pages
...glade. The roof, though moveable through all iis length As the wind sways it, has yet well suffic'd, ' ' intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. 73 No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...glade. The rcof, though moveable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well sufficed, And intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes,...solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, wherever he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendant drops of ice, That tinkle in the withered... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1808 - 338 pages
.....4-.„* The roof, though movahle through all it's lengthAs the wind sways it, has yet well suffic'd, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes,...No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redhreast warhles still, hut is content With slender notes, and more than half suppress'd: Pleas'd... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1810 - 212 pages
...The roof, though moveable through all its lengtk As the wind sways it, has yet well suffic'd, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes,...is content With slender notes, and more than half suppress'd ; Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he... | |
| William Cowper - 1811 - 228 pages
...The roof, though moveable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well suffic'cly And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes,...is content With slender notes, and more than half suppress'ii: Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he... | |
| Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 pages
...may compare their manner of introducing the same picturesque object in the following passages : *' The red.breast warbles still, but is content With slender notes and more than half suppress'd, Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to (pray, where'er he rests, he... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1811 - 510 pages
...tcr walks have made those remarks on the same bird which dictated to Cowper the following lines: — The red-breast warbles still, but is content With slender notes and more than half suppress'd. Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light 1'rom spray to spray, where'er he rests he... | |
| 1815 - 558 pages
...made those remarks on the same bird which dictated to Cowper the following lines : — The red- breast warbles still, but is content With slender notes and more than half suppress'd, Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he... | |
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