| John Milton - 1852 - 350 pages
...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...hear thy even-song ; And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one... | |
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...o'er th' accustom'd oke; Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy I Thee chauntress oft the woods among, I woo to hear thy even-song; And missing thee , I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green. To behold the wand'ring moon Ridmg neer her highest noon, Like one... | |
| John Milton - 1852 - 424 pages
...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 On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one... | |
| Class-book - Poetry - 1852 - 152 pages
...moon. 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, On the dry, smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering Moon Riding near her highest noon, Like one... | |
| English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...oak : Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chantress, s'@a * On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering Moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one... | |
| Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustomed oak: Sweet bird, that shunnest the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy...hear thy even-song ; And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one... | |
| John Milton - Milton, John, 1608-1674 - 1853 - 380 pages
...night, While Cynthia1 checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak : Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy...hear thy even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one... | |
| John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...nightingale. While Cynthia1 checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak : Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy...hear thy even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one... | |
| John Milton, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 376 pages
...yoke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak : Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly, Most nn1sical, most melancholy ! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods...hear thy even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one... | |
| Spectator The - 1853 - 560 pages
...ideas of which were exquisitely suited to my present wanderings of thought "Sweet bird! that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical! most melancholy!...chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo to hear thy evening song: And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wand'ring... | |
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