 | William Dowling - Literary landmarks - 1857 - 412 pages
...Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er th' accustom'd oak : Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...hear thy even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...the evening, when, if there is aught to break the silence, it will be the song of the nightingale : . Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly— Most...among, I woo, to hear thy even-song; And, missing thec, I walk unseen On the dry, smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon Riding near her highest... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1859 - 420 pages
...o'er the accustom'd oak: Most musical, most melancholy ! Sweet bird, that shunnest the noise of folly, Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even-song; And missing thee, I walk unseen To behold the wandering moon, On the dry smooth-shaven green, Riding near her highest noon. Through... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...Stoeet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly. Most musical, most melancholy.' " Thee, chauntresa, oft the woods among I woo to hear thy even-song : And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, /..'/.-... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly — Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chauntrcss, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song; And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry, smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon Riding near her highest noon, Like one... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Keightley - 1859 - 492 pages
...fio Sweet bird, that shmmest the noise, of folly, Most musieal, most melaneholy ! Thee, ehantress, oft the woods among I woo to hear thy even-song ; And missing thee I walk unseen, On the dry, smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one... | |
 | William Harrison ainsworth - 1860 - 516 pages
...In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night. . . . Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy...chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song.^f * The Rape of Lucrece. t Shakspeare's Sonnets, 102. J K. Greene's Poems, Alexis. § Paradise... | |
 | 1860 - 520 pages
...In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night. . . . Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy...chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song.^f * The Rape of Lucrece. f Shakspeare's Sonnets, 102. J R. Greene's Poems, Alexis. § Paradise... | |
 | England - English poetry - 1860 - 532 pages
...night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustomed oak : Sweet bird, that shunnest the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!...chauntress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even song ; And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering... | |
 | 1860 - 860 pages
...accurate, to a degree that is in itself a beauty. For instance, in his address to the nightingale: Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo to hear thy even-song, And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green. The song of the nightingale ceases about the time that the grass is... | |
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Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among I woo, to hear thy even-song; And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green... 
