 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
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 páginas
...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 musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chantress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 páginas
...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 musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chantress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen... | |
 | 1844 - 276 páginas
...arrival of the swallow, the nightingale, that most accomplished and enchanting of songsters, is heard — 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. MILTON. He sings by day as well... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 páginas
...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 musical, most melancholy ! " Thee, chauntress, ofi the woods among I woo to hear thy even-song : And missing thee, I walk unseen... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 páginas
..."whist." See note 2, p. 296. While Cynthia checks1 her dragon-yoke, Gentle o'er the accustomed 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 280 páginas
...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 musical, most melancholy!» Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among I woo to hear thy even-song : And missing thee, I walk unseen... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 páginas
...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 musical, most melancholy ! n Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among I woo to hear thy even-song ; And missing thee, I walk unseen... | |
 | 1846 - 590 páginas
...the most exquisite jug of the night-warbler, as, m covert lone, she sings, darkling, he exclaims— " 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... | |
 | 1846 - 436 páginas
...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 ! Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 páginas
...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 musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even-song: And missing thee, I walk unseen... | |
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