 | William Thomas Young - English poetry - 1923 - 328 pages
...Moonlight walks when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls; A midnight bell, a parting groan, These are the sounds we feed upon. Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley, Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. J. FLETCHER From The Nice Valour, folio 1647 Oh, how... | |
 | Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - English literature - 1924 - 942 pages
...Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls! A midnight bell, a parting s to satisfy this ideal, however much we may still fall short Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. MILTON AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES THE characteristic prose... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1924 - 692 pages
...Moonlight walks, when all the fowls, Are warmly housed, save Bats and Owls; A midnight bell, a parting groan, These are the sounds we feed upon; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley, Nothing's so dainty sweet, as lovely melancholy. Note the irregular stanza forms. The first stanza... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1924 - 660 pages
...Moonlight walks, when all the fowls, Are warmly housed, save Bats and Owls; A midnight bell, a parting groan, These are the sounds we feed upon; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley, Nothing's so dainty sweet, as lovely melancholy. Note the irregular stanza forms. The first stanza... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - Ballads, English - 1924 - 326 pages
...Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These are the sounds we feed upon ; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley, Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy THE VILLAGE FESTIVAL Let the bells ring, and let the... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 408 pages
...Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These are the sounds we feed upon ; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley : Nothing 's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. JOHN FLETCHER. BLOW, BLOW, THOU WINTER WIND. PROM "AS YOU... | |
 | Edward Bliss Reed - Ballads, English - 1925 - 410 pages
...Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls; A midnight bell, a parting groan, These are the sounds we feed upon; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley, Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. THE NICE VALOUR, iii. i. COME follow me, you country... | |
 | Readers - 1925 - 582 pages
...Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls! A midnight bell, a parting groan — These are the sounds we feed upon: Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley, Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. 98 Idella and the White Plague* BY JOSEPH C. LINCOLN.... | |
 | Emile Legouis - English poetry - 1925 - 146 pages
...walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls I A midnight bell, a parting groan I These are the sounds we feed upon ; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley ; Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. (Tiré de Nice Valour, pièce écrite avant 1624).... | |
 | George William McClelland - English literature - 1925 - 1178 pages
...Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls; A midnight bell, a parting ite he clad, and over it Cast a black stole, most like to seeme for Una fit. XLVI No Now if thou would'st, when all have given valley; him over, Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely From... | |
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A tongue chain'd up without a sound ! Fountain heads, and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These are the sounds we feed upon... 
