 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 páginas
...Contemplation; And the mute silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak : Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy !... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 280 páginas
...Contemplation ;'° And the mute Silence hist along, Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustom'd oak, Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!»... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 páginas
...Contemplation ;'° And the mute Silence hist along, Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustom'd oak, Stoeet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly. Most musical, most melancholy !... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 páginas
...Contemplation ; 10 And the mute Silence hist along, Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustom'd oak, Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! "... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 páginas
...Contemplation ;10 And the mute Silence hist along, Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustom'd oak, Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! "... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 páginas
...Contemplation ; i0 And the mute Silence hist along, Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustom'd oak. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! n... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 páginas
...Contemplation: And the mute Silence, hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song In her sweetest, saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustom'd oak. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee,... | |
 | 1846 - 436 páginas
...Contemplation ; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest, saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustomed oak. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee,... | |
 | Migratory birds - 1847 - 74 páginas
...minstrelsy, waking in the heart of many a lone exile thoughts too deep for tears : " In her sweetest, saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak : Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy !... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 154 páginas
...Contemplation; 30 And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest, saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er th' accustom'd oak ; Sweet bird, that, shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee,... | |
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But, first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged... 
