 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 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....softened strain, Whose numbers stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit ; As musing slow I hail Thy genial loved return... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1854 - 430 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,...softened strain. » Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit; As, musing slow, I hail Thy genial loved... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 278 pages
...where the weak-ey'd bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing; Or where the beetle wiuds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises midst the...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... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 208 pages
...shriek flits by on leathern wing; Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, * Pipe. t Brnid. As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against...hum : Now, teach me, maid composed, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vaifl, May not unseemly with its stillness... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, William Collins, George Gilfillan, Thomas Warton - English literature - 1854 - 354 pages
...short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, 4 As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against...hum : Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some soften'd strain, 5 Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening rale, May not unseemly with its stillness... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 980 pages
...where the weak-ey'd bat, With short shrill shriek, flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle wind* His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises midst the...twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless horn. Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some softcn'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through... | |
 | Authors, English - 1855 - 834 pages
...shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winde His small but sullen horn, As oil he rises midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim...hum ; Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers stealing through thy darkening May not unseemly with its stillness suit,... | |
 | James Chapman - 286 pages
...Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eye'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 thro' thy darkening vale, May not... | |
 | William Collins - 234 pages
...174847. Shall learn the sad repeated tale, — '7472, 3. May hope, O pensive Eve, to sooth thine ear, As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against...pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid compos'd, 15 To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing thro' thy dark'ning vale, May... | |
 | Doris Eveline Faulkner Jones - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 244 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... | |
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O'erhang his wavy bed: 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, As oft he rises, 'midst the twilight path Against the pilgrim borne in heedless... 
