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" When morning's twilight-tinctured beam Strikes their low thatch with slanting gleam, They rove abroad in ether blue, To dip the scythe in fragrant dew ; The sheaf to bind, the beech to fell, That nodding shades a craggy delL Midst gloomy glades, in warbles... "
The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors - Page 287
by Ezekiel Sanford - 1822
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Treasury of Minor British Poetry: Selected and Arranged with Notes

John Churton Collins - Bookbinding, Victorian - 1896 - 504 pages
...crowd, nor tempt the main, For splendid care, and guilty gain ! o When morning's twilight-tinctur'd beam Strikes their low thatch with slanting gleam,...they view The hyacinth's neglected hue : In their low haunts, and woodland rounds, They spy the squirrel's airy bounds ; And startle from her ashen spray,...
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The Oxford Point of View, Volume 1

1902 - 300 pages
...esse libetis et soluiis et unJiquc vagis. Or take these verses: — When morning's twilight-tinctur'd beam Strikes their low thatch with slanting gleam, They rove abroad in ether blue And dip their scythes in fragrant dew. In their lone haunts and woodland rounds They spy the squirrel's...
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English Lyrical Poetry from Its Origins to the Present Time

Edward Bliss Reed - English poetry - 1912 - 638 pages
...passages of sympathetic observation of birds and flowers that have by no means lost their charm: " Midst gloomy glades, in warbles clear, Wild nature's sweetest notes they hear; On green untrodden banks_ they view The hyacinth's neglected hue: In their lone haunts, and woodland rounds, They spy...
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English Lyric in the Age of Reason

Oswald Doughty - English poetry - 1922 - 488 pages
...predecessors. The following extract reveals both the excellencies and defects of Warton's nature-poems : Midst gloomy glades, in warbles clear, Wild nature's...untrodden banks they view The hyacinth's neglected hue ; 1 Blackwood's Magazine, September 1831, Vol. XXX, p. 483: An Hour's Talk about Poetry. * Canto XII....
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The music, or melody of rhythmus of language

James Chapman - 286 pages
...the crowd, nor tempt the main, For splendid care and guilty gain ! When morning's twilight-tinctur'd beam Strikes their low thatch with slanting gleam,...fell, That nodding shades a craggy dell. 'Midst gloomy shades, in warbles clear, Wild nature's sweetest notes they hear : On green untrodden banks they view...
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Treasury of Minor British Poetry: Selected and Arranged with Notes

John Churton Collins - Bookbinding, Victorian - 1896 - 502 pages
...crowd, nor tempt the main, For splendid care, and guilty gain ! o When morning's twilight-tinctur'd beam Strikes their low thatch with slanting gleam,...they view The hyacinth's neglected hue : In their low haunts, and woodland rounds, They spy the squirrel's airy bounds ; And startle from her ashen spray,...
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The Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Warton, and Poet Laureate, Volume 1

Thomas Warton - 1802 - 374 pages
...That nodding fhades a craggy dell. 10 Midft gloomy glades, in warbles clear, Wild nature's fweeteft notes they hear : On green untrodden banks they view...neglected hue : In their lone haunts, and woodland rounds, 15 They fpy the fquirrel's airy bounds : And ftartle from her afhen fpray, Acrofs the glen, the fcreaming...
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