 O'erhang his wavy bed: Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises, 'midst the twilight path Against the pilgrim borne in heedless...  The English Poets: Selections - Side 288av Thomas Humphry Ward - 1881Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | William Collins - 1848 - 158 sider
...skirts, With braid ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat, With short shrill shriek, flits by on leathern...pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy dark'ning vale, May... | |
 | William Collins - 1848 - 156 sider
...of Evening, he had thought proper to Lty aside the foppery of rhyme: " Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some softened strain, Whose numbers stealing...stillness suit, As, musing slow, I hail Thy genial lov'd return !" But whatever were the numbers, or the versification of this ode, the imagery and enthusiasm... | |
 | Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 sider
...skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed: Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat, With short, shrill shriek flits by on leathern...twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum: To breathe some soften'd strain. Now teach me, maid compos'd, Whose numbers, stealing through thy dark'ning... | |
 | 1900 - 676 sider
...has expressed himself somewhat so ; but the likeness is not very strong, and Gray has done best :— Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat With...where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn. ' Ode to Evening.' The flight of the bat and the beetle " with his drowsy hums " indicates the approach... | |
 | 1900 - 614 sider
...somewhat so ; but the likeness is not very strong, and Gray has done best : — Vow air is hushed, gave where the weak-eyed bat With short, shrill shriek...where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn. ' Ode to Evening.' The flight of the bat and the beetle " with his drowsy hums " indicates the approach... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 sider
...sun Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede ethereal wove,' O'erhang his wavy bed: Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat, With...path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum ; Now tench me, maid composed, To breathe some softened strain, Whose numbers stealing through thy darkening... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 sider
...ohreis his droning Sight f" ODF. TO EVENING. 328 Now teach me,1 maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening...stillness suit ; As, musing slow, I hail Thy genial lov'd return ! For when thy folding-star arising shows His palya circlet, at his warning lamp, The... | |
 | John Coleman (of Dover.) - 1851 - 892 sider
...western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede etherial wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek...softened strain, Whose numbers stealing through thy dark'ning vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit, As, musing slow, I hail Thy genial loved... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 sider
...sun Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang hie wavy bed : ent than any of them : Francesco prefers it to the...we have not rain soon, we shall certainly have mo hum, As oft he rises midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 378 sider
...'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, is The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. '' Or where the beetle winds His small, but sullen horn...path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum." W. V. 10. The " ignavus bubo" of Ovid. Met. v. 550. The two following passages might supply the images... | |
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