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" And flocks loud bleating from the distant hills, And vacant shepherds piping in the dale ; And, now and then, sweet Philomel would wail, Or stockdoves plain amid the forest deep, That drowsy rustled to the sighing gale ; And still a coil the grasshopper... "
The Poetical Works of James Thomson: With His Last Corrections, Additions ... - Page 134
by James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804
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Anthologia Anglica, a new selection from the English poets from Spenser to ...

Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 pages
...distant hills, And vacant shepherds piping in the dale ; And, now and then, sweet Philomel would wail, Or stock-doves plain amid the forest deep, That drowsy...rustled to the sighing gale ; And still a coil the grasshopper did keep ; Yet all these sounds yblent inclined all to sleep. V Full in the passage of...
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The poetical works of James Thomson. With life, critical diss., and ...

James Thomson - 1873 - 758 pages
...distant hills, And vacant shepherds piping in the dale : And now and then sweet Philomel would wail, Or stock-doves plain amid the forest deep, That drowsy...rustled to the sighing gale ; And still a coil the grasshopper did keep : Yet all these sounds yblent inclined all to sleep. v. Full in the passage of...
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The Might and Mirth of Literature: A Treatise on Figurative Language. In ...

John Walker Vilant Macbeth - 1875 - 558 pages
...distant hills, And vacant shepherds piping in the dale; And now and then sweet Philomel would wail, Or stock-doves 'plain amid the forest deep, That drowsy...rustled to the sighing gale; And still a coil the grasshopper would keep — Yet all these sounds, yblent, inclined all to sleep." CXLIX. Concession;...
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Text-book of Poetry: From Wordsworth, Coleridge, Burns, Beattie, Goldsmith ...

Henry Norman Hudson - 1875 - 728 pages
...distant hills, And vacant shepherds piping in the dale; And, now and then, sweet Philomel would wail, Or stockdoves plain amid the forest deep, That drowsy...rustled to the sighing gale ; And still a coil the grasshopper did keep ; Yet all these sounds yblent inclined all to sleep. 5 Full in the passage of...
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Songs of Three Centuries

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 pages
...And vacant shepherds piping in the dale; And now and then sweet Philomel would wail, Or stock -doves plain amid the forest deep, That drowsy rustled to the sighing gale; And still a coil the grasshopper did keep; Yet all these sounds yblent inclined all to sleep. Full in the passage of the...
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Songs of Three Centuries

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 pages
...piping in the dale ; And now and then sweet Philomel would wail, Or stock-doves plain amid the foivst deep, That drowsy rustled to the sighing gale ; And .still a coil the grasshopper did keep; Yet all these sounds yblent inclined all to sleep. Full in the passage of the...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed ..., Volume 4; Volume 80

Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...distant hills, And vacant shepherds piping in the dale ; And, now and then, sweet Philomel would wail, Or stockdoves plain amid the forest deep, That drowsy...rustled to the sighing gale; And still a coil the grasshopper did keep ; Yet all these sounds yblent inclin6d all to sleep. Full in the passage of the...
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The Poets and Poetry of Scotland, from the Earliest to the Present Time ...

James Grant Wilson - 1876 - 604 pages
...distant hills, And vacant shepherds piping in the dale: And now and then sweet Philomel would wail, Or stock-doves 'plain amid the forest deep, That drowsy...rustled to the sighing gale ; And still a coil the grasshopper did keep; Yet all these sounds yblont inclined all to sleep. Full in the passage of the...
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Songs of Three Centuries

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 pages
...distant hills, And vacant shepherds piping in the dale; And now and then sweet Philomel would wail, Or stock-doves plain amid the forest deep, That drowsy...rustled to the sighing gale; And still a coil the grasshopper did keep; I'et all these sounds yblent inclined all to sleep. Full in the passage of the...
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The junior book of poetry [ed.] by W. Davis

William Davis (B.A.) - 1877 - 80 pages
...distant hills ; And vacant * shepherds piping in the dale : And now and then sweet Philomel 3 would wail, Or stock-doves 'plain amid the forest deep, That drowsy...rustled to the sighing gale ; And still a coil * the grasshopper did keep ; Yet all these sounds yblent * inclined all to sleep. Full in the passage of...
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