 | Women's periodicals, English - 1861 - 378 pages
...Sweet bird, that shunn'st tbe haunts of folly, Host musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chantress, olt the woods among I woo to hear thy even-song ! And, missing thee, I walk unseen Ou the dry, smooth-shaven green," And the sweet " lady " in " Comus," that lovely embodiment of feminine... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...oak : Sweet bird, that shnnn'st the noise of felly, Most mnsieal, most melaneholy ! Thee, ehantress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk nnseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon,... | |
 | Mrs. Loudon (Jane) - Natural history - 1850 - 630 pages
...and tameness, pick out the worms almost close to his spade. THE NIGHTINGALE. (Philomela luscinia.) " 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." MILTON. THE Nightingale has little to... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1851 - 282 pages
...the accustom'd oak, Sioeet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!11 Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among I woo to hear...unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that hath been led astray " Through the heaven's... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...actively addresses and "woos" their action: Sweet Bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musicall, most melancholy! Thee Chauntress oft the Woods among, I woo to hear thy eevn-Song . . . [61-64] This speaker does not float with loose participles; his stance is precise,... | |
 | Bette Charlene Werner - English poetry - 1986 - 328 pages
...and Prose of William Blake, p. 684, give these lines of the poem as the subject of the illustration: To behold the wandring Moon Riding near her highest Noon Like one that has been led astray Thro the heavens wide pathless way And oft as if her head she bowd Stooping thro'... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...Mo ft musicaU, moft melancholy! Thee Chauntress oft the Woods among, I woo to hear thy eeven'Song; And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth'shaven Green, To behold the wandring Moon, Riding neer her higheft noon, Like one that had bin led aftray Through the Heavns widepathles way; And oft,... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
...hypothetical being, into literary being. Again it is a play of absence, the bird unheard, the poet unseen: 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; And missing thee, I walk unseen On the... | |
 | Willard Spiegelman - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 234 pages
...leisure" and "the cherub contemplation," and the speaker actually participates in the melancholy mood: "I woo to hear thy Even-Song; / And missing thee, I walk unseen / On the dry smooth-shaven Green" (11. 64-66). The insistent first-person demands and participation ("I hear the far-off Curfew sound";... | |
 | David G. Hartwell, Milton T. Wolf - Fiction - 1996 - 806 pages
...angry in a red room, and unhappy people are only exasperated by sunshine and birdsong. Do you remember: And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noun. Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven... | |
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Gently o'er the accustomed oak. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among I woo, to hear thy even-song; And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green... 
