I view the embattled tower Whence all the music. I again perceive The soothing influence of the wafted strains, And settle in soft musings as I tread The walk, still verdant under oaks and elms, Whose outspread branches overarch the glade. The roof... Poems - Página 151por William Cowper - 1806Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Stoddart - 1801 - 402 páginas
...I was more than once reminded most fccibly of that beautifully descriptive passage, in the "ask : " The redbreast warbles still ; but is content With slender notes and more than half supprest Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests, he shaks... | |
| 1802 - 302 páginas
...glade. The roof, though moveable through all iis length As the wind sways it, has yet well suffic'd, ' ' intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. 73 No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With... | |
| William Cowper - 1802 - 350 páginas
...verdant, under oaks and elms, Whose outspread branches overarch the glade. The roof, though moveable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well suffic'd, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. No noise... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 234 páginas
...verdant, under oaks and elms, Whose outspread branches overarch the glade. The rcof, though moveable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet...solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, wherever he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendant drops of ice, That tinkle in the withered... | |
| William Cowper - 1808 - 338 páginas
.....4-.„* The roof, though movahle through all it's lengthAs the wind sways it, has yet well suffic'd, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent...No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redhreast warhles still, hut is content With slender notes, and more than half suppress'd: Pleas'd... | |
| William Cowper - 1810 - 212 páginas
...glade. The roof, though moveable through all its lengtk As the wind sways it, has yet well suffic'd, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent...is content With slender notes, and more than half suppress'd ; Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he... | |
| Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 páginas
...may compare their manner of introducing the same picturesque object in the following passages : *' The red.breast warbles still, but is content With slender notes and more than half suppress'd, Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to (pray, where'er he rests, he... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1811 - 510 páginas
...tcr walks have made those remarks on the same bird which dictated to Cowper the following lines: — The red-breast warbles still, but is content With slender notes and more than half suppress'd. Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light 1'rom spray to spray, where'er he rests he... | |
| William Cowper - 1811 - 228 páginas
...verdant, under oaks and elms, Whose outspread branches overarch the glade. The roof, though moveable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well suffic'cly And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. No noise... | |
| 1815 - 558 páginas
...made those remarks on the same bird which dictated to Cowper the following lines : — The red- breast warbles still, but is content With slender notes and more than half suppress'd, Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he... | |
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