 WHEN cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream is dumb, And the whirring sail goes round, And the whirring sail goes round ; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits.  Poems - Side 10av Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1893 - 406 sider
...white owl in the belfry sits. When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely smells the new- mown hay. And the cock hath sung beneath the thatch Twice...The white owl in the belfry sits. SECOND SONG TO THE SAMT. THY tuwhits arc lull'd I wot, Thy tuwhoos. of yesternight, Which upon the dark afloat, So took... | |
 | William Langland - 1893 - 280 sider
...etynge and in handlynge • and in alle thi fyue wittis.' Compare Tennyson's Song of the Owl: — ' Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits.' •> 1 7. Hyghte, commanded. To help yout of, to provide you with. 20. In carmine three thinges, three... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 268 sider
...round, And the whirring sail goes round ; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. " When merry milkmaids click the latch, And...his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits." Tennyson has not directly celebrated any of the more famous birds, but his poems contain frequent allusions... | |
 | David Sinclair Burleson - 1925 - 440 sider
...And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream is dumb, And the whirring sail goes round; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. 11. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not... | |
 | 604 sider
...®WLS OF THE BY MRS. BATTEESBT. " When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely smells the new -mown hay, And the cock hath sung beneath the thatch Twice...warming his five wits The white owl in the belfry sits." — TENNYSON. Eren in the time of Pliny, owls were considered birds of ill-omen, and he gives an account... | |
 | 1923 - 748 sider
...round, And the whirring sail goes round ; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely...his. five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 110 ONCE ONCE I was a monarch's daughter, And sat on a lady's knee; But am now... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 628 sider
...the whirring sail goes round ; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. 2 When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely smells...thrice his roundelay ; Alone and warming his five wits, (1853) The white owl in the belfry sits. XX SECOND SONG TO THE SAME THY tuwhits are lull'd I wot, Thy... | |
 | Melinda McCracken - 1975 - 142 sider
...round, Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. When merry milkmaids clock the latch, And rarely smells the new-mown hay, And...warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. The Lincolnshire Poacher — Folk song arranged with descant by HA Chambers As me and my companions... | |
 | 1918 - 684 sider
...five senses; seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling and touching. You remember the poem about the owl: "Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits." Columbkill might be what? P. A stream. T. It was the name of a glen in Ireland. What did the King do?... | |
 | R. P. Hewett - 1985 - 322 sider
...whirring sail goes round ; 5 Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. II When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely smells...new-mown hay, And the cock hath sung beneath the thatch 10 Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay; Alone and warming his five wits, The... | |
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