O'erhang his wavy bed: Now air is hushed, 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... The Poetical Works of William Collins - Página 49de William Collins, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Sir Egerton Brydges, John Langhorne - 1830 - 150 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| English poetry - 1809 - 302 páginas
...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...pilgrim borne in heedless hum: Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy dark'ning vate, May... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 526 páginas
...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...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... | |
| Walter Scott - 1810 - 308 páginas
...short shrill shriek, flits by on leathern wing1, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against...borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some softened strain, Whose numbers stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 554 páginas
...short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or whore the beetle winds His email but sullen horn. As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against...pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid cotnpos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 556 páginas
...borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whosenumbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit, As, musing slow, 1 hail Thy genial lov'd return ! For when thy folding-star ari>ing shows His paly... | |
| Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 páginas
...short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wino.' Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against...pilgrim borne in heedless hum ; „ Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers stealing thro' thy dark'nin" vale, May not... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 páginas
...With short shrill shriek flies by on leathern Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now tench me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing ihrough thy darkening... | |
| Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 páginas
...2. And so Collins, in his Ode to Evening : " Or where the beetle winds His small, but sullen horn ; As oft he rises midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum." W. p 2 Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r, . The mopeing owl does to the moon complain 10 Of such... | |
| 1839 - 894 páginas
...short stirill skriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, " As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against...pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, " Whose numbers, stealing through thy dark'uing vale, May... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 418 páginas
...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...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 not... | |
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