 | Alexander Dyce - English poetry - 1833 - 240 pages
...bud to blow, their tyrant breath Anticipating life, to hasten death. JOHN MILTON. TO THE NIGHTINGALE. O NIGHTINGALE, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at...on propitious May. Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day, First heard before the shallow cuckoo's bill, Portend success in love ; O, if Jove's will... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...chime; Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her. SONNETS. I. To the Nightingale. O NIGHTINGALE , that on yon bloomy spray Warblest...eve, when all the woods are still;' Thou with fresh hopes the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May. The liquid notes that... | |
 | Garland - English poetry - 1836 - 246 pages
...the icy frost of cold desire. JOHN MILTON, Bern 1608, died 1674. TO THE NIGHTINGALE. O NIGHTINGALE I that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all...on propitious May. Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day, First heard before the shallow cuckoo's bill, Portend success in love. O ! if Jove's will... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Animals - 1837 - 344 pages
...It is to this superstition that Milton alludes, in his beautiful Sonnet to the Nightingale : — 0 Nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still : Thou wilh fresh hopes the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May. Thy liquid... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...ears ; — that is, Prynne's. Warton. 17 liaiik] \. e. spare. Warton. SONNETS. 1. TO THE NIGHTINGALE. O NIGHTINGALE, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at...on propitious May. Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day, 5 First heard before the shallow cuckoo's bill, Portend success in love ; O if Jove's will... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...'s ears ; — that is, Prynne's. Warton. i7 bauk] ie spare. Warton. SONNETS. L TO THE NIGHTINGALE. O NIGHTINGALE, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at...on propitious May. Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day, 5 First heard before the shallow cuckoo's bill, Portend success in love ; O if Jove's will... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1839 - 414 pages
...so, from observing the interest taken in it by his high-born companion. " Oh ! nightingale, that from yon bloomy spray, Warblest at eve when all the woods...are still ; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart doth fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May." " Delightful !" said the ladies ; " but pray,... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1839 - 1084 pages
...taken in it by his high-born companion. " Ob ! nightingale, that from yon bloomy spray, Warblest at ere when all the woods are still ; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart doth fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May." " Delightful !~ said the ladies ; " but pray,... | |
 | Songs, English - 1840 - 652 pages
...W. HORSLEY, Mus. Bac. (Alto, 2 Tenors, and Bass.) O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblcst at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh...on propitious May. Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day, First heard before the shallow cuckoo's bill, Portend success in love ; oh ! if Jove's... | |
 | A Montagu Woodford - 1841 - 320 pages
...the tenderest solicitude, until his death, on Sunday the 8th of November, 1674. TO THE NIGHTINGALE. O, NIGHTINGALE, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest...on propitious May. Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day, First heard before the shallow cuckow's bill, Portend success in love; O, if Jove's will... | |
| |
O NIGHTINGALE that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May. 
