 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!  Hood's Magazine - Page 5531846Full view - About this book
 | James Bolton - 1830 - 382 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 evening song." In another place he styles it the " solemn bird;" and again speaks of it as the " wakeful... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...night, While Cynthia^checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the "accustomed oak: Sweet bird, that shunnest the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 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 musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even-song ; And missing thee, I walk unseen & On... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 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 musical, most melancholy! Thee, channtress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song; And, missing thec, I walk unseen 65... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 336 pages
...Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke. Gently o'er th' aceustom'd oke ; 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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 390 pages
...Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er th' accustom'd oke ; 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... | |
 | Edwin Guest - 1838 - 338 pages
...Above,| about,| : or un|derneath|. II Penseroso. Ne wil|le ic leng| : his geou|gra weorth(an. Cad. Sweet bird | that shun'nst| : the noise | of fol|ly Most mu|sical| : most mel|ancholy. II Penseroso. 5 : 6. is only met with in the tumbling verse. This no|ble earle| : full wise|ly hath... | |
 | Mary Ashdowne - 1839 - 328 pages
...impressions of that beautiful passage in " II Penseroso," so sweetly representing her plaintive melancholy. " Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...Thee, chantress, oft the woods among I woo to hear thy evening song." Lulled by this repose, or sauntering through the mazy forest in the glowing ardour of... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er th' accustom'd oak ; eo 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 65 On... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 836 pages
...chantry by. Sha/Laxare. The poets eaant in the theatres, the shepherds in the mountains. ЯгачЛгИ. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly. Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chantreu oft, the woods among, I woo to hear thy even song. Male», A pleasant grove, With chant of... | |
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