 | Author of The young man's own book - American poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek flits by on leather whig, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn,...softened strain, Whose numbers stealing through thy dark'ning vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit ; As, musing slow, I hail For when thy folding... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...his wavy bed : Now air is hush'd, save where the wealf-ey'd bat, With short shrill shriek flits on by leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small...pilgrim borne In heedless hum : Now teach me, maid compos'd, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 362 pages
...his wavy bed : Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat, With short shrill shriek flits on by leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small...pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May... | |
 | Jewel - 1839 - 352 pages
...skirts, With brede etherial wove, O'erhang his wavy bed: Now air is hushed, save where the weak-ey'd bat, With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern...pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May... | |
 | England - 1839 - 876 pages
...O'erhang his wavy bed : " Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat, With short shrill skriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds...pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, 103Э.] " Whose numbers, stealing through thy dark'ning... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Readers - 1839 - 322 pages
...Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed. 3. Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat, With...where the beetle winds . His small but sullen horn, 4. As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short, shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing,Or where the beetle winds' His small but sullen horn,...hum : Now teach me, maid composed, To' breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hush'd, save where th,e weak-eyed bat, With short, shrill...shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle wind* His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek...hum ; Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers stealing through thydarkeningvale May not unseemly with its stillness... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...With brede ethereal wore, O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed but, my wanderer hear me ! Salgar, it is Colma who calls...Why delayest thou thy coming) Lo ! the calm moon com bonie in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some softened strain, Whose numbers... | |
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O'erhang his wavy bed: Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises, 'midst the twilight path Against the pilgrim borne in heedless... 
