 | English literature - 1853 - 604 pages
...perplexity. " Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chan tress, 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... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 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...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... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - Country life - 1854 - 592 pages
...performers: on which account the poets have always made the song of the nightingale a nocturnal serenade. Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...chauntress, oft, the woods among I woo to hear thy even song. MILTON. The singing of birds is usually supposed to be the language of courtship : " All... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 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...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... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustomed oak. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of foffy, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chauntress,...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 - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...oak : Sweet bird, that shunnest 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... | |
 | Collection - 1856 - 120 pages
...oak ; Sweet bird that shun'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 wand'ring moon Hiding near her highest noon, Like one... | |
 | David Masson - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 528 pages
...perplexity. " 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... | |
 | David Masson - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 494 pages
...perplexity. " 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... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 578 pages
...oak ; Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of Folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chantres«, On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Hiding near hor highest noon, Like one... | |
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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... 
