 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pages
...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, Vhautress, oft, these woods among;, I woo, to hear thy evening song: And missing thee, I walk unseen... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 378 pages
...Oft at the blush of dawn so I trod your level lawn, Oft woo'd the gleam of Cynthia silver-bright " Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! * V. 31. " In long excursion skims the level lawn." Thomson. Spring. Luke. V. 32. " With silver-bright... | |
 | 1909 - 502 pages
...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 I Thee, Chauntress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even-song; And, missing thee, I walk unseen... | |
 | 1925 - 1028 pages
...question was raised by Coleridge a century and a half ago in his criticism of Milton's well-known lines : Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy. For Coleridge no bird can be melancholy. It is man who imparts his own mood to the song ; he is sad,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...number why did you answer the phone? James Thurber (1894-1%1) American humorist, illustrator The Blues Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly. Most musical, most melancholy. John Milton (1608-1674) English poet I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - 1993 - 340 pages
...hypothetical being, into literary being. Again it is a play of absence, the bird unheard, the poet unseen: Sweet Bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...Thee Chantress oft the Woods among, I woo to hear thy Even-Song; And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven Green. (lines 61 -6) At the centre... | |
 | Paul Everett - 1996 - 122 pages
...fierce winds Summer, II sounds of insects troubled sleep 'Less Philomel will deign a song (P, 55-6)c Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! (P, 61-2) While rocking winds are piping loud, Or usher 'd with a shower still When the gust hath blown... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...title given to the first novel by Francise Sagan, which became an international bestseller in 1954. 3 Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! JOHN MILTON, (1608-1674) British poet. "II Penseroso," I. 61 (written 1631, published 1 645). Memory... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...Penseroso' And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure. 7500 'II Penseroso' gh) If thy heart fails thee, climb 7501 7/ Penseroso' And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1084 pages
...the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her Dragon yoke, Gently o'er th' accustom'd Oak; 60 Sweet Bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...Thee Chantress oft the Woods among, I woo to hear thy Even-Song; And missing thee, I walk unseen 65 On the dry smooth-shaven Green, To behold the wand'ring... | |
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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! 
