 The winds are whist, and the owl is still, The bat in the shelvy rock is hid, And naught is heard on the lonely hill But the cricket's chirp and the answer shrill Of the gauze-winged katy-did; And the plaint of the wailing whip-poor-will Who mourns unseen,...  The American Monthly Magazine - Page 681835Full view - About this book
 | 1835 - 842 pages
...cricket's chirp and the answer shrill Of the gauze-winged katy-did ; And the plaint of the mailing whippoorwill Who mourns unseen, and ceaseless sings Ever a note of wail and wo — Up to the vaulted firmament His path the fire-fly courser bent, And at every gallop on the wind... | |
 | Joseph Rodman Drake - Literary Criticism - 1835 - 226 pages
...heard on the lonely hill But the cricket's chirp and the answer shrill Of the gauze-winged katy-did ; And the plaint of the wailing whip-poor-will Who mourns...wail and wo, Till morning spreads her rosy wings, |i And earth and sky in her glances glow. III. 'Tis the hour of fairy ban and spell : The wood-tick... | |
 | Joseph Rodman Drake - New York (State) - 1836 - 110 pages
...answer shrill Of the gauze-winged katy-did; And the plaint of the wailing whip-poor-will, Who moans unseen, and ceaseless sings, Ever a note of wail and...rosy wings, And earth and sky in her glances glow. III. 'Tis the hour of fairy ban and spell: The wood-tick has kept the minutes well; He has counted... | |
 | 1836 - 802 pages
...the answer shrill Of ¡he gauze- winged katy-did ; And the plaint of the wailing whippoorwill U'ho mourns unseen, and ceaseless sings Ever a note of wail and wo— Up to the vaulted firmament His path the fire-fly courser bent, And at every gallop on the wind He... | |
 | John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 304 pages
...answer shrill Of the gauze-winged katy-did ; And the plaint of the wailing whip-poor-will, Who moans unseen, and ceaseless sings, Ever a note of wail and...rosy wings, And earth and sky in her glances glow. III. JT is the hour of fairy ban and spell : The wood-tick has kept the minutes well , THE CULPRIT... | |
 | John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 302 pages
...answer shrill Of the gauze-winged katy-did ; And the plaint of the wailing whip-poor-will, Who moans unseen, and ceaseless sings, Ever a note of wail and...rosy wings, And earth and sky in her glances glow. ra. He has counted them all with click and stroke, Deep in the heart of the mountain oak, And he has... | |
 | 1841 - 646 pages
...gauze wtng'a katy-did. And the plaint of the wailing whip-poor-will, Who moans unseen, and ceaeeless sings, Ever a note of wail and wo. Till morning spreads...glances glow. 'Tis the hour of fairy ban and spell, The wood tick baa kept the minutes well ; He has counted them all with click and stroke, Deep in the heart... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 558 pages
...answer shrill Of the gauze-winged katy-did; And the plaint of the wailing whip-poor-will, Who moons unseen, and ceaseless sings, Ever a note of wail and...Till morning spreads her rosy wings, And earth and *ky in her glances glow. 'T is the hour of fairy ban and spell : The wood-tick has kept the minutes... | |
 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 606 pages
...WHIP-POOR-WILL. RL-I'Ki II '. IIY : , «s«. "The plaint of the waiting whip-poor-will, Who moans umw n, and ceaseless sings, Ever a note of wail and wo, Till morning spreads her rosy wings, And eurth and sky in her glances glow." — JR Drake. " Why dost thou come at set of sun, Those pensive... | |
 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...heard on the lonely hill But the cricket's chirp, and the answer shrill Of the gauze-winged katy-did ; And the plaint of the wailing whip-poor-will Who mourns...spreads her rosy wings, And earth and sky in her glances clow. 'Tis the hour of fairy ban and spell : The wood-tick has kept the minutes well ; He has counted... | |
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