 Less Philomel will deign a song In her sweetest saddest plight, 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 musical, most melancholy!  The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray - Página 63por Thomas Gray - 1851 - 223 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 342 páginas
...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 musical! most melancholy ! Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among, I woo to hear thy ev'ning song: And missing thee I walk unseen... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - 1820 - 122 páginas
...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 musical, most melancholy ! Thee chauntress, oft the woods among, I woo to hear thy evening song." In another place he styles... | |
 | 1822 - 284 páginas
...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... | |
 | Thomas Gosden - 1822 - 80 páginas
...heard alone ; whence the poets have always made the song of the nightingale a nocturnal serenade — Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy 1 The chauntress, oft, the woods among I woo to hear thy even-song. MILTON. and the names of several... | |
 | 1822 - 666 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1823 - 398 páginas
...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 musical ! most melancholy ! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo to hear thy ev'ning song : And missing thee I walk... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 806 páginas
...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 musical ! most melancholy ! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo to hear thy ev'ning song : And missing thee I walk... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 416 páginas
...ipsa referre sonos. Of her melancholy no one has given a more delightful description than Milton ; Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy, Thee, chantress, oft the woods among I woo to hear thy evening song. So great a favourite was the nightingale... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 páginas
...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... | |
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