 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...his wavy bed : Xow air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd b»t, 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... | |
 | Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society - Archaeology - 1852 - 244 pages
...his " Ode to Evening," could not be correctly applied to them, He says ; " Now air is hushed, save Where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn ;...twilight path, Against the pilgrim, borne in heedless hum ;" for these creatures were not seen by mortal eye, nor was their hum music to mortal ear. Upwards... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1852 - 348 pages
...to their portion fall Health, competence, and peace." " Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern...where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn." " Then at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1853 - 838 pages
...where the weak-eyed bat, With ehort shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winde His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises midst the...hum ; Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some softcn'd strain, Whose numbers stealing through thy darkening May not unseemly with its stillness suit,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...cloudy skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed ; Now air is Jmsh'd, snvo where tho weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek, flits by...hum: Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some soften'd strain, 1 He bere iilludcs to the old super Billions connected with All-Hallow Even, or Hallow... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 278 pages
...where the weak-ey'd bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing; Or where the beetle wiuds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises midst the...pilgrim borne in heedless hum: Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy dark'ning vale, May... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, William Collins, George Gilfillan, Thomas Warton - English literature - 1854 - 354 pages
...western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With braid ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : 3 Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek...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 me,... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 208 pages
...western tent, whose cloudy skirts, "With bredef ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek...where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, * Pipe. t Brnid. As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 980 pages
...where the weak-ey'd 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 in heedless horn. Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some softcn'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through... | |
 | Authors, English - 1855 - 834 pages
...shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winde His small but sullen horn, As oil he rises midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim...hum ; Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers stealing through thy darkening May not unseemly with its stillness suit,... | |
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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... 
