 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
 | Charles Tennant - Europe - 1824 - 506 pages
...departed sun — short succeeding twilight had shed its soft influence around and passed away, and • 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 labor'd song; now reigns Full orb'd the... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 312 pages
...gentle voice ; I thought it thino: it said, " Why sleep'st them, Kve ? now is the pleasant tiiru>, The cool, the silent, save where silence yields To the night-warbling bird, that now awoke 40 Tunes sweetest hia love-labour'iI song ; now reigns Full orb'd the moon, and with more pleasing... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...call'd me forth to walk With gontle voice ; I thought it thine : it said, 1 Why sleep's! thou, Eve ? now is the pleasant time, The cool, the silent, save where silence vields To the night-warbling bird, that now awake Tunes sweetest his love-labour 'd song ; now reigns... | |
 | Bible - 1827 - 294 pages
...called 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...that now awake Tunes sweetest his love-laboured song ; now reigns Full-orbed the moon, and with more pleasing light 42 Shadowy sets off the face of things... | |
 | James Jennings - Birds - 1828 - 526 pages
...are uttered by the same bird at midnight. In accordance with this, thus beautifully sings MILTON : " 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-laboured song ; now reigns Fnll-orb'd... | |
 | James Jennings (of Huntspill.) - 1828 - 528 pages
...are uttered by the same hird at midnight. In accordance with this, thus beautifully sings MILTON : " Now is the pleasant time, The cool, the silent, save where silence yields To the •ui^lit.irurbltn^ hird that, now awake, Tunes sweetest his love-laboured song ; now reigns Full-orb'd... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 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 the... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 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 the... | |
 | John Milton - 1829 - 426 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-warhling hird, that now awake Tunes sweetest his love-lahour'd song ; now reigny Full-orh'd the... | |
 | James Bolton - 1830 - 382 pages
...the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung." 29 " 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." The same birds sing the nuptial song in the garden of innocence, and lull the... | |
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