| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed but, With short shrill shriek, flits by on leathern wing, Here is the tree and the rock. Salgar, my love !...Why delayest thou thy coming) Lo ! the calm moon com bonie in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some softened strain, Whose numbers... | |
| William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 324 pages
...weak-eyed hat With short shrill shriek flits hy on leathern wing; Or where the heetle winds His small hut sullen horn, As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim horne in heedless ham: Now teach me, maid composed, To hreathe some soften'd strain. Whose numhers,... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...air is hushed,1 save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek, flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn,...softened strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit, As, musing slow, I hail Thy genial loved... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat, With short shrill shriek, flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn,...pilgrim borne in heedless hum. Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkling vale, May not... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 512 pages
...Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat, With short shrill shriek, flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn,...Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum. Now teach me, moid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkling vale,... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 850 pages
...Where awful ruins on their mossy roofs Denote the flight of time. Cooper. The Power of Harmony, bookii. Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn,...twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum. Collins. Ode to Evening-, BEFALL, be and fall; AS befeallan ; Dutch, bevallen ; to fall, to happen,... | |
| 1844 - 836 pages
...the weak-eyed bat, With »hort slirill slireak flit* by on leathern wing i Or, where the beetle wind* His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises 'midst...pilgrim borne In heedless hum. Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose member*, stealing through thy dark'ning rale, May... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn,...hum : Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers stealing through thy darkening vale May not unseemly with its stillness... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn,...midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in needless hum : Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some softened strain, , Whose numbers stealing... | |
| William Collins - English poetry - 1848 - 158 pages
...air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat, With short shrill shriek, flits by on leathern wing ; Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn,...pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy dark'ning vale, May... | |
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