 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 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...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 one... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 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...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... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 596 pages
...Smoothing, 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...thee, I walk unseen 65 On the dry smooth-shaven green, 56. I apprehend Philomel, or the nightingale, (here) to allude to the same prototype as that of the... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 588 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...thee, I walk unseen 65 On the dry smooth-shaven green, 56. I apprehend Philomel, or the nightingale, (here) to allude to the same prototype as that of the... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 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...chauntress, oft the woods among, I woo to hear thy evening song. * jGllan Var. Hist. 577, both in the text and note. It must be remarked, that nightingales... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 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, And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wand'ring moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the' accustom'd oak : Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy...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 one... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 342 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... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - Boxing - 1820 - 122 pages
...Smoothing the nigged brow of night, While Cynthia checks the 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." In another place he styles it the solemn bird} and he says again : " As the wakeful... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...oak : Sweet bird, that sliunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chantrcss, 'd Po B/+ On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering Moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one... | |
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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... 
