 Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendent drops of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silence.  Poems - Page 161by William Cowper - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...glade. The roof, though movable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well sufficed, And, head of your loved Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing ROBIN IN WINTER ; TINKLING ICEDROP3. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes,... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 578 pages
...theugh movable through all its length As the wind sways it, haa yet well suffieed, And, intereepting run Through woods and meads, in shade and sun ! 1...Castle. Sometimes swift, sometimes slow, Wave sueeeedin TEE EOEIS IS WISTEE ; TIEELISG ICFDEOP3. The redbreast warbles still, but is eontent With slender notes,... | |
 | William Cowper, Henry Stebbing - 1856 - 430 pages
...thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half suppress'd ; Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendant drops of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness, accompanied... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 464 pages
...glade. The roof, though movable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well sufficed, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. 75 No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The red-breast warbles still, but is content With... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...though moveable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well sufficed, And, intereepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for mc. No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With... | |
 | Nature in literature - 1864 - 148 pages
...glade. The roof, though movable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well sufficed, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes,...light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendent drops of ice That tinkle in the withered leaves below. Stillness, accompanied... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 144 pages
...glade. The roof, though movable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well sufficed, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes,...light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendent drops of ice, That tinkle in the withered leaves below. Stillness, accompanied... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1901 - 654 pages
...glade. The roof, though moveable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well sufficed, And intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes,...light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendent drops of ice, That tinkle in the withered leaves below. Stillness, accompanied... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1901 - 320 pages
...glade. The roof, though movable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well sufficed, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes,...suppressed : Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light 30 From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendent drops of ice, That... | |
 | English language - 1902 - 462 pages
...glade. The roof, though movable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well sufficed, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes,...light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendent drops of ice, That tinkle in the withered leaves below. Observe how many... | |
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