 | English poetry - 1904 - 542 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... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...hung and breathed such soul-dissolving airs As did, alas ! with soft perdition please: 250 Intangled 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: behoves no more 255 But sidelong to the... | |
 | James Thomson - English poetry - 1908 - 550 pages
...hung, and breathed such soul-dissolving airs As did, alas ! with soft perdition please : Entangled deep in its enchanting snares, The listening heart forgot all duties and all cares. XL A certain music, never known before, Here soothed the pensive melancholy mind ; Full easily obtained.... | |
 | Francis William Galpin - Music - 1910 - 516 pages
...^olian Harp as the musical instrument of his Castle of Indolence (1746). For it required no effort, But sidelong, to the gently waving wind To lay the well-tun'd instrument reclined ; From which, with airy flying fingers light, Beyond each mortal touch the most refined The... | |
 | English poetry - 1912 - 572 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 - 412 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... | |
 | Kathleen Winifred Campbell - Poetry - 1926 - 220 pages
...in its enchanting Snares, The listening Heart forgot all Duties and all Cares. XL A certain Musick, never known before, Here lull'd the pensive melancholy...easily obtain'd. Behoves no more, But sidelong, to the gently-waving Wind, To lay the well-tun'd Instrument reclin'd ; From which, with airy flying Fingers... | |
 | Kathleen Winifred Campbell - Poetry - 1926 - 220 pages
...hung, and breath'd such Soul-dissolving Airs, As did, alas ! with soft Perdition please : Entangled deep in its enchanting Snares, The listening Heart forgot all Duties and all Cares. XL A certain Musick, never known before, Here lull'd the pensive melancholy Mind ; Full easily obtain'd.... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...hung, and breathed such soul-dissolving airs As did, alas! with soft perdition please: 115 Intangled deep in its enchanting snares, The listening heart...all cares. A certain music, never known before, Here soothed the pensive melancholy mind ; Full easily obtained. Behoves no moVe, 120 But sidelong to the... | |
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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! 
