| Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 страници
...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 thy dark'ning vale, May not unseemly with its stillness... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 страници
...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 soflenYl strain, 1 He here alludes to the old superstitions connected with All-Hallow Even, or Hallow... | |
| Collection - 1856 - 120 страници
...western tent, whose cloudy skirts With brede ethereal wore, O'erhang his wayy bed : Now air is hushld, save where the weak-eyed bat, 'With short shrill shriek...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... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 страници
...oat-straw. Now air is hushed,1 save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek, flits by oil leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small...path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teaeh me, maid composed, To breathe some softened strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening... | |
| Dionysius Lardner - 1856 - 518 страници
...describes this insect in the well-known lines of his Qde to Evening : — "Now air is hushed, save where The beetle winds his small but sullen horn,...path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum." The poet, it will be observed, avoids falling into the popular «tror of imputing blindness to the... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 358 страници
...western tent, whose cloudy skirts, e With brede 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, AB oft he rises midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 страници
...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,...path, Against the pilgrim, borne in heedless hum: Now tench me, maid composed, To breathe some softened strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening... | |
| James Chapman - 286 страници
...sun Sits in yon eastern tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede etherial wove, 9. Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eye'd bat. With short shrill shriek...pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, Maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers stealing thro' thy darkening vale, May not... | |
| William Collins - 234 страници
...174847. Shall learn the sad repeated tale, — '7472, 3. May hope, O pensive Eve, to sooth thine ear, As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against...pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid compos'd, 15 To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing thro' thy dark'ning vale, May... | |
| Doris Eveline Faulkner Jones - 1982 - 244 страници
...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 thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness... | |
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