 Sleepless ! and soon the small birds' melodies Must hear, first uttered from my orchard trees ; And the first cuckoo's melancholy cry. Even thus last night, and two nights more, I lay, And could not win thee, Sleep ! by any stealth : So do not let me...  Odes and Sonnets, Illustrated - Page 901859 - 107 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Public school series - 1874 - 408 pages
...with an anointed king was, no doubt, the source of this strange credulity. TO SLEEP.— Wordsworth. A FLOCK of sheep that leisurely pass by One after...Smooth fields, 'white sheets of water, and pure sky;— I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless, and soon the small birds' melodies Must hear,... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1874 - 96 pages
...must be) Who have felt the weight of too much liberty, Should find brief solace there as I have found. SLEEP. A FLOCK of sheep that leisurely pass by One...after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring ; the falls of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water and pure sky, By turns have all... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 560 pages
...confidence of reason give ; An'!, in the light of truth, thy bondman let me live ! TO SLEEP. A FIOCK of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one ; the...sky; — I 've thought of all by turns, and still 1 lie Sleepless; and soon the small birds' melodies Must hear, first uttered from my orchard trees,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1875 - 728 pages
...disown, Mere slave of them who never for thee pray'd Still last to come where thou art wanted most I A FLOCK of sheep that leisurely pass by, One after...Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky; I've thought of all by turns, and yet do lie Sleepless; and soon the small birds' melodies Must hear,... | |
 | Frank Ives Scudamore - Essays - 1875 - 336 pages
...sleep, I have tried them all and hold them in contempt. I can indeed say with Mr. Wordsworth — " A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by, One after...Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky ; I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless!" These devices have never helped me, nor,... | |
 | William Davidson (B.A.) - 1875 - 216 pages
...heaven's gate sings." 5. Adverb. "Softly ! methinks I hear a flute." CHAPTER X SPECIMEN PARSINQ, §1. A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by, One after...rain, and bees Murmuring ; the fall of rivers, winds arid seas ; Smooth field, white sheets of water, and pure sky { I have thought of all by turns, and... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 574 pages
...reconciled : O gentle creature I do not use me so, But once and deeply let me be beguiled ! xvx 10 SLEEP. A FLOCK of sheep that leisurely pass by, One...Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky; I've thought of all by turns ; and still I lie Sleepless - and soon the small birds' melodies Must... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Bible - 1876 - 628 pages
...poetic parallel in one of Wordsworth's three sonnets to sleep ; but the Rydal Bard is more serious : " A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by, One after...Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky ; I have thought of all by turns, and yet do lie Sleepless ! and soon the small birds' melodies Must hear,... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1876 - 420 pages
...sight, that liquid splendour ; And all feel, yet see thee never, As I feel now, lost for ever !" ( /.) "A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after...Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky ; — I've thought of all by turns." 7. Give Shelly's description of the Protestant cemetery at Rome.... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1876 - 622 pages
...cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. IV. TO SLEEP. WOBDSWORI A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by, One after...winds, and seas, Smooth fields; white sheets of water, andjmre sky; I thought of all by turns, and yet I lie Sleepless ! and soon the small birds' melodies... | |
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