 | Edward Polehampton - Natural history - 1821 - 752 pages
...the riigged 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...chauntress, oft the woods among, . ' . I woo to hear thy evening song. * .EIj. in Var. Hist. 677, both in the text and note. It mast be remarked t iws nightingales... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 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 heaven's... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke,. 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 tine, I walk unseen On... | |
 | 1822 - 666 pages
...Milton, in his beautiful poem, II Penseroso, describes it in the following lines of poetic excellence : " Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chantress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy eren-song." Again : — " The sweet poet of the vernal... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - English literature - 1822 - 234 pages
...the rugged brow of night. . . While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the aocustom'd oak ; Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee chaunt ress, oft, the woods among I woo to hear thy evening song ; And missing thee, I walk unseen... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 322 pages
...entitles II Penseroso, the ideas of which were exquisitely suited to my present wanderings of thought. And missing thee I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven...moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that hath been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 682 pages
...entitles II Penseroso, the ideas of which were exquisitely suited to my present wanderings of thought. And missing thee I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven...moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that hath been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 806 pages
...entitles II Penseroso, the ideas of which were exquisitely suited to my present wanderings of thought. Sweet bird! that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo to hear thy ev'ning song : And missing thee I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wand' ring... | |
 | English essays - 1823 - 398 pages
...entitles II Penseroso, the ideas of which were exquisitely suited to my present wanderings of thought. Sweet bird! that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo to hear thy ev'ning song : And missing thee I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wand'ring... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er th' 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 ev'ning song ; And missing thee, I walk unseen On... | |
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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... 
