 Gently o'er the accustomed 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 dry smooth-shaven green, To behold...  Chambers's English readers, ed. by J.M.D. Meiklejohn - 第 301 頁由 編輯 - 1880完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Mary Ashdowne - 1839 - 328 頁
...impressions of that beautiful passage in " II Penseroso," so sweetly representing her plaintive melancholy. " Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy, Thee, chantress, oft the woods among I woo to hear thy evening song." Lulled by this repose, or sauntering... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 頁
...Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak : s fittest place ; I found Ihee there, And thither will return thee ; yet remember W chantress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen On... | |
 | William Gadiner - 1841 - 508 頁
...with a beautiful and solemn melody : — tr Handel has closely copied her in the following strain — Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical — most melancholy ! 222 It is difficult to account for so small a creature as a bird making a tone as loud as some animals... | |
 | 1846 - 872 頁
...Read it with diligence and prayer ; Search it, and you will find Him there." 120 THE NIGHTINGALE. " Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy.'' THE first and most celebrated of the tuneful tribe is the Nightingale, a small bird, seven inches in... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 頁
...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, chantress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen On... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 頁
...Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak : orms was seen to move, As Idless fancied in her dreaming mood : And up the hills, o chantress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen On... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 頁
...Smoothing the rngged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the aecustom'd oak : in chantress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen On... | |
 | 1866 - 848 頁
...that is in itself a beauty. For instance, in his address to the nightingale : — " Thee, chnuntrcss, oft the woods among, I woo to hear thy even-song,...missing thee, I walk unseen, On the dry smooth-shaven greeu." The song of the nightingale ceases abont the time that the grass is mowu. ' The Reverend Doctor... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 頁
...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, chantress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen On... | |
 | 1844 - 276 頁
...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 musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chantress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song. MILTON. He sings by day as well as by... | |
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