 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 65 On the dry, smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding...  The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author - Page 283by John Milton - 1839Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 334 pages
...'Russet lawns,' there are eight leading images : in the following of equal length, there is only one. To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest...noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heav'ns wide pathless way ; And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. The... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 690 pages
...'Russet lawns,' there are eight leading images : in the following of equal length, there is only one. To behold the wandering moon. Riding near her highest...noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heav'ns wide pathless way ; And oft, as if her head she bow'd. Stooping through a fleecy cloud. The... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...Prajsulis Eliensis. Longequc sub pedibus dcam Vidi triformein, ilnm cocrccbat euo> Frocnis draconct aureia. 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 wand'ring moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er th' accustom'd oak ; XTRACTS FROM THE SEASONS. MUiWF.ns IN SI-RIM;, The...he now shut up Within his iron cave, th' effusive evening-song ; And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wand'ring... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 572 pages
..."Lew Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest, saddest plight. Smoothing the rugged brow of night. Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...Thee chauntress oft the woods among I woo to hear thy even song; And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooih-shaven green, To behold the wand'ring... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...evening-song ; And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wand'ring ; And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleeey eloud. Oft on a plat of rising ground,... | |
 | Thomas Bewick - 1826 - 446 pages
...Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustomed oak : Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...chauntress, oft the woods among, I woo to hear thy evening song : Nightingales begin to build about the end of April or the beginning of May ; they make... | |
 | 1826 - 310 pages
...hear tliy even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, VOL. in. 6* To behold the wandering Moon, Riding near her highest...noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the Heaven's wide pathless way : And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud, Oft,... | |
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