 | English lyrics - English poetry - 1883 - 330 pages
...travellers in some shady haunt Among Arabian sands ; A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In spring time from the cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. Will no one tell me what she sings ? Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things,... | |
 | Loomis Joseph Campbell - Elocution - 1884 - 442 pages
...reposing bands Of travelers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands; A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In spring-time from the cuckoo-bird, Breaking...the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. 3. Will no one tell me what she sings ? Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1885 - 344 pages
...notes to weary bands of travellers in some shady haunt among Arabian sands : no sweeter voice was ever heard in spring-time from the cuckoo-bird, breaking...the silence of the seas among the farthest Hebrides. 3Will no one tell me what she sings? perhaps the plaintive numbers flow for old, unhappy, far-off things,... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1885 - 300 pages
...weary hands Of travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands : IA voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, Breaking...the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. Will no one tell me what she sings ? — Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off... | |
 | Oriel readers - 1885 - 248 pages
...weary bands Of travellers, in some shady haunt Among Arabian sands: No sweeter voice was ever heard la spring-time from the cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. 3. Will no one tell me what she sings ? Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1886 - 990 pages
...plants — who seizes the secret for us, who makes us participate in their life ; it is Shakespeare with his ' Daffodils That come before the swallow...March with beauty ; ' it is "Wordsworth, with his 1 Voice . . . heard In spring-lime from the cuckoo bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1886 - 994 pages
...participate in their life ; it is Shakespeare with his 1 Daffodils That come before the swallow dares, aud take The winds of March with beauty ; ' it is "Wordsworth, with his 1 Voice . . . heard In spring-time from the cuckoo bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the... | |
 | Sir Sidney Colvin - Poets, English - 1887 - 252 pages
...aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of cold ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors — No — yet still... | |
 | William Wordsworth, William Angus Knight - 1888 - 396 pages
...weary bands Of travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands : A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, Breaking...the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. Will no one tell me what she sings ? — Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English literature - 1889 - 468 pages
...weary bands i° Of travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands : A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, Breaking...the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. Will no one tell me what she sings ? — Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off... | |
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Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again! 
