 | English poetry - 1912 - 537 pages
...certain music, never known before, Here lulled the pensive, melancholy mind; Full easily obtained. Behoves no more, But sidelong to the gently- waving wind To lay the well-tuned instrument reclined; From which, with airy flying fingers light, Beyond each mortal touch... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 1100 pages
...hung, and breathed such soul-dissolving airs, As did, alas ! with soft perdition please : Entangled deep in its enchanting snares, The listening heart...all cares. A certain music, never known before, Here lulled the pensive, melancholy mind ; Full easily obtained. Behooves no more, But sidelong, to the... | |
 | English poetry - 1930 - 252 pages
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Lull'd the weak bosom, and induced ease, Aerial music in the warbling wind, At distance rising oft by small degrees, Nearer and nearer came, till o'er the trees It hung, and breath'd such soul-dissolving airs, As did, alas! 
