 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...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...chantress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering... | |
 | 1844 - 276 pages
...arrival of the swallow, the nightingale, that most accomplished and enchanting of songsters, is heard — Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...chantress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song. MILTON. He sings by day as well as by night ; but in the day-time his voice is drowned in... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...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...chantress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering... | |
 | Bourne Hall Draper - 1844 - 504 pages
...bird. Milton notices this in one of the most beautiful of his poems, — " Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy...oft the woods among, I woo to hear thy evening song 1 " And Cowper delightfully compares the retired Christian to the nightingale. Referring to the place... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
..."whist." See note 2, p. 296. While Cynthia checks1 her dragon-yoke, Gentle o'er the accustomed oak. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...chantress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 pages
...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, chauntress, ofi the woods among I woo to hear thy even-song : And missing thee, I walk unseen On the... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 280 pages
...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, chauntress, oft the woods among I woo to hear thy even-song : And missing thee, I walk unseen On the... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 292 pages
...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 ! » Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among I woo to hear thy even-song : And missing thee, I walk unseen On the... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...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 Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among I woo to hear thy even-song ; And missing thee, I walk unseen... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...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 I11 Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among I woo to hear thy even-song ; And missing thee, I walk unseen... | |
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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! 
