 Why sleep'st thou, Eve? now is the pleasant time, The cool, the silent, save where silence yields To the night-warbling bird, that now awake Tunes sweetest his love-labour'd song, now reigns Full orb'd the moon, and with more pleasing light Shadowy sets...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 6121882Full view - About this book
 | Edward Polehampton - Natural history - 1821 - 752 pages
...reproached with losing the beauties of the night, by indulging too long a repose : Why sleep's! thou, Eve ? now is the pleasant time, The cool, the silent, save...now awake, Tunes sweetest his love-laboured song. The same birds sing their nuptial song, and lull them to rest. How rapturous are the following lines... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...one call'd me forth to walk With gentle voice, I thought it thine; it said, Why sleep' st thou, Eve? now is the pleasant time, The cool, the silent, save where silence yields To the night-warbling hird, that now awake 40 Tunes sweetest her love-labour'd song; now reigns Full orb'd the moon, and... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...call'd me forth to walk AVith gentle voice ; I thought it thine: It said, " Why sleep'st thou, Eve? now is the pleasant time, The cool, the silent, save where silence yields To the uigbt-warbling bird, that now awake Tunes sweetest his love-labour'd song; now reigns Full-orb'd the... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...call'd me forth to walk With gentle voice : I thought it thine : it said, ' Why sleep'st thou, Eve ! now is the pleasant time, The cool, the silent; save...night-warbling bird, that now awake Tunes sweetest his love-labor'd song : now reigns Full-orb'd the moon, and with more pleasing light Shadowy sets off the... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 682 pages
...where she fancies herself awakened by Adam in the following beautiful lines : Why sleep's! thou, Eve? Now is the pleasant time, The cool, the silent, save...night-warbling bird, that now awake Tunes sweetest his love-labour' d song : now reigns Full-orb'd the moon, and with more pleasing light Shadowy sets off... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 408 pages
...passage is that, where Eve, relating her dream to Adam, fancies him to have said, Why sleep'st thou, Eve? now is the pleasant time, The cool, the silent, save...night-warbling bird, that now, awake, Tunes sweetest her love-labour'd song. Southey, too, has a descriptive passage equal to any in Virgil. It is in his... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...one call'd me forth to walk With gentle voice, I thought it thine; it said, Why sleep'st thou, Eve ? ass love-labour'd song; now reign* Full orb'd the moon, and with more pleasing light Shadowy sets off the... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...one call'd me forth to walk With gentle voice, I thought it thine ; it said, Why sleep'st thou Eve ? now is the pleasant time, The cool, the silent, save...night-warbling bird, that now awake Tunes sweetest his love-labour'd song ; now reigns Full orb'd the moon, and with more pleasing light Shadowy sets off... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...call'd me forth to walk With gentle voice, I thought it thine ; it said, Why sleep'st thou Eve ? no\y is the pleasant time, The cool, the silent, save where...night-warbling bird, that now awake Tunes sweetest his love-labour'd song ; now reigns Full orb'd the moon, and with more pleasing light Shadowy sets off... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...cal I'd me forth to walk With gentle voice ; I thought it thine : it said, Why sleep'st thou, Eve ? now is the pleasant time, The cool, the silent, save where silence yields To the night- warbling bird, that now awake 40 Tunes sweetest his love-labour'd song ; now reigns Full orb'd... | |
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