 It ceased; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook, In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.  John Ruskin: A Study - Page 32by Robert Percival Downes - 1890 - 119 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Playtime - 1863 - 436 pages
...birds that are, How they seemed to fill the sea and air With their sweet jargoning ! And now 'twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute ; And...is an angel's song, That makes the heavens be mute. It ceased ; yet still the sails made on, A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 720 pages
...birds that are, How they seemed to fill the sea and air With their sweet jargoning 1 And now 'twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute ; And...is an angel's song, That makes the heavens be mute. It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetry - 1864 - 332 pages
...little birds that are, How they seemed to fill the sea and air With their sweet jargoning! And now 'twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute; And...is an angel's song, That makes the heavens be mute. A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 pages
...birds that are — How they seemed to fill the sea and air With their sweet jargoning ! " And now 'twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute ; And...is an angel's song, That makes the heavens be mute. " It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon — A noise like of a hidden brook... | |
 | Spiritualism - 1866 - 588 pages
...Then darted to the sun ; Slowly the sounds came back again, Now mixed, now one by one. And now 'twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute ; And...is an angel's song, That makes the heavens be mute. It ceased, yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon ; A noise like of a hidden brook... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1866 - 484 pages
...the ear our rough, pithy English, in his verse, breathes all sounds, all melodies :— "And now'tis like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute; And...an angel's song, That makes the heavens be mute." But in ' Christabel/ which has some slight pretensions to be an intelligible narrative, or, at least,... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 340 pages
...might rejoice to hear; Even wondering Philomel forgot to sing, SINGING (continued).^ And now 'twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute ; And...now it is an angel's song That makes the heavens be nrate. ST COLERIDGE. Her voice is hovering o'er my soul — it lingers O'ershadowing it with soft and... | |
 | Francis Fisher Broune - 1869 - 486 pages
...their verse our rugged but pithy and expressive English breathes all sounds, all melodies; — " And now 'tis like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute,...an angel's song, That makes the heavens be mute." Let no one, then, underrate the importance of the study of words. Daniel Webster was often seen absorbed... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1869 - 204 pages
...birds that are, How they seemed to fill the sea and air With their sweet jargoning ! And now 'twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute ; And...is an angel's song, That makes the heavens be mute. It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook... | |
 | Alfred Billings Street - Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) - 1869 - 268 pages
...melodies in my ear, mingling with my dreams. Now it sounded a lute, now a trumpet. " And now 'twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute, And...is an angel's song, That makes the heavens be mute! " CHAPTER IV. MOUNT MAKCT. On the Trail to Tabawus. — The Ascent. — Tahawus. — The Sunset. —... | |
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