| James Bolton - 1830 - 382 pages
...Smoothing the rugged brow of night ; While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak ; Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chantress, oft the woods among, I woo to hear thy evening song." In another place he styles it the... | |
| John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er th' accustom'd oak ; 60 Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...hear thy even-song ; And missing thee, I walk unseen & On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...oak; Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chantress, oft the woods among, I woo to hear thy even-song;...unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heavens'... | |
| John Milton - 1834 - 498 pages
...the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er th' accustom'd oak ; 60 Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...hear thy even-song ; And missing thee, I walk unseen 65 On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like... | |
| John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia, checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er th' accustom'd oak: " 60 Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, channtress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song; And, missing thec, I walk unseen 65... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er th' accustom'd oke ; Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...smooth-shaven green, To behold the wand'ring moon Riding neer her highest noon, Like one that had bin led astray Through the Heav'ns wide pathles way ; And... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke. Gently o'er th' aceustom'd oke ; Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...smooth-shaven green, To behold the wand'ring moon Riding neer her highest noon, Like one that had bin led astray Through the Heav'ns wide pathles way ; And... | |
| Henry Halford Vaughan - Books and reading - 1836 - 76 pages
...his positive knowledge, and studied the mere outward image in order to write the following lines : To behold the wand'ring moon Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Thro' the heavens wide pathless way ; And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping thro' a fleecy cloud.... | |
| John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er th' accustom'd oak ; eo Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...hear thy even-song ; And missing thee, I walk unseen 65 On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 836 pages
...chantry by. Sha/Laxare. The poets eaant in the theatres, the shepherds in the mountains. ЯгачЛгИ. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly. Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chantreu oft, the woods among, I woo to hear thy even song. Male», A pleasant grove, With chant of... | |
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