O NIGHTINGALE that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May. Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day, First heard before the shallow... The Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 552by John Milton - 1815Full view - About this book
| Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...destitutam Subsecat hostis. Rosa misella, gemma amata, Rosa maligna luce nata. To the Nightingale. О Nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly Hours lead on propitious May. Thy... | |
| Lyre - Love poetry, English - 1806 - 208 pages
...bequeathed 1500/. to his family; '" a proof," observes Dr. Anderson, " that he never was ia indigence." TO THE NIGHTINGALE. O NIGHTINGALE, that on yon bloomy...spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still! Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the" jolly Hours lead on propitious May. Thy... | |
| British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...free His half-rcgain'd Eurydice. These delights if thou ean'st give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. TO THE NIGHTINGALE. O Nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when nil the woods are still ! Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dojt fill, While the' jolly Hours... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. 1023 SONNETS SONNETS. i. TO THE NIGHTINGALE. (_) NIGHTINGALE, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly Hours lead on propitious May. Thy... | |
| Walter Scott - English poetry - 1810 - 308 pages
...salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long. XI. TO THE NIGHTINGALE. MILTON. 0 NIGHTINGALE, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart does fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May. Thy... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...Heaven itself would stoop to her. 1023 SONNETS SONNETS. I. TO THE NIGHTINGALE. O NIGHTINGALE, tbat.on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still ; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly Hours lead on propitious May. Thy... | |
| John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...fair. Me, in my rowM Picture, the sacred wall declares t* have hung My dank and dropping weeds 15 Te the stern God of sea. SONNETS. I. TO THE NIGHTINGALE. O NIGHTINGALE, that on yon bloomy spray \Varblest at eve, when all the woods are still ; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill,... | |
| John Milton - 1816 - 198 pages
...bounteous Spring the heav'nly gifts proceed ; For her, O Muse inspir'd. prepare the destin'd meed ! " O Nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still," Pour forth in praise of Spring thy varied lay, And the sweet year shall wake my ruder quill ; Lo !... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...on her. Such a rural Queen All Arcadia hath not seen. SONNETS. TO THE NIGHTINOALE. O iriGHTiireALE, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods arc still ; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the' jolly Hours lead on propitious... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...might wait on her. Such a rural queen All Arcadia hath not seen. SONNETS. i. TO THE NIGHTINGALE. 0 NIGHTINGALE ! that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still ; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly' Hours lead on propitious May.... | |
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