 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May hope, O pensive Eve, to soothe thine ear Like thy own modest springs, Thy springs, and dying gales ; O nymph reserved, while now the bright-haired suu Sits in yon western tent whose cloudy skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1848 - 158 pages
...E'en humble Harting's cottag'd vale Shall learn the sad repeated tale, And bid her shepherds weep. ODE TO EVENING. IF aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May hope, O pensive Eve, to soothe thine ear, Like thy own brawling springs, Thy springs, and dying gales ; O... | |
 | E. A. ANSLEY - English language - 1849 - 288 pages
...is, perhaps, one of the most exquisite morsels of this species of composition in English literature. ODE TO EVENING. "If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral...and dying gales; " O nymph reserved ! while now the bright-haired sun Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1867 - 682 pages
...— " May hope, О pensive Eve, to soothe thy ear, tike thy own brawling springs ; " in Dodsley — " May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear. Like thy own solemn springs." Now how does "chaste" apply particularly to Eve ? and surely, if she was chaste, there was no need... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...have been vindicated from the neglect or aspersions of their contemporaries. ODE TO EVENING. If anght of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May hope, chaste...solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales ; O nymph rescrv'd, while now the bright-hair'd Sun Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede1... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall nwhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there. ODE TO EVENING. If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May hope, O pensive Eve, to soothe thine ear Like thy own modest springs, Thy springs, and dying gales ; O nymph... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 pages
...CHAPTER XXVI. ODE TO EVENING. IF aught of oaten stop, or past'ral song, May hope, chaste Eve, to smooth thy modest ear, Like thy own solemn springs, Thy springs and dying gales, O Nymph reserv'd, while now the bright-hair'd sun Sits on yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there. Ode to Evening. If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May nope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear, Like thy own solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1852 - 332 pages
...Harting's cottaged vale Shall learn the sad repeated tale, And bid her shepherds weep. TO EVENING. IP aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May hope, chaste...gales; O nymph reserved ! while now the bright-hair'd *UYl Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts, "With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...To thee we build a roseate bower, Thou, thou shalt rule our queen, and share our monarch's throne! Ode to Evening. If aught of oaten stop , or pastoral...solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales; O nymph reserv'd, while now the bright-hair'd Sun Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede... | |
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If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May hope, chaste eve, to soothe thy modest ear, Like thy own solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales... 
