No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half suppress'd : Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes From many a... The Poems of William Cowper - Side 277av William Cowper - 1828 - 427 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 654 sider
...glade. The roof, though moveable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well sufficed, And intercepting in their silent fall The frequent...is content With slender notes, and more than half suppressed • Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1901 - 320 sider
...glade. The roof, though movable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well sufficed, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent...is content With slender notes, and more than half suppressed : Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light 30 From spray to spray, where'er he rests... | |
| William Cowper - 1846 - 204 sider
...redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half suppress'd: Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to...pendent drops of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd leSves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silence. Meditation here... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1902 - 442 sider
...glade. The roof, though moveable through all its length, As the wind sways it, has yet well suffic'd, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent...where'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendent drop of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft,... | |
| 1902 - 462 sider
...glade. The roof, though movable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well sufficed, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent...is content With slender notes, and more than half suppressed. Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he... | |
| John Hays Gardiner, George Lyman Kittredge, Sarah Louise Arnold - 1902 - 462 sider
...elms, The roof, though movable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well sufficed, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent...is content With slender notes, and more than half suppressed. Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he... | |
| Sarah Louise Arnold, George Lyman Kittredge, John Hays Gardiner - 1902 - 460 sider
...elms, The roof, though movable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well sufficed, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent...is content With slender notes, and more than half suppressed. Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he... | |
| Sarah Louise Arnold, George Lyman Kittredge, John Hays Gardiner - 1902 - 460 sider
...content With slender notes, and more than half suppressed. Pleased with his solitude, and flittijig light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendent drops of ice, That tinkte in the withered leaves below. Observe how many things the poet mentions that a painter could... | |
| Sister Mary Lambertine - 1903 - 318 sider
...glade. The roof, though movable through all its length, As the wind sways it, has yet well sufficed, And intercepting in their silent fall The frequent...is content With slender notes, and more than half suppressed; Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he... | |
| Joseph Bickersteth Mayor - 1903 - 190 sider
...blue Without a cloud, and white without a speck The dazzling splendour of the scene below. * * * # No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The...is content With slender notes, and more than half suppressed : Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray lo spray, where'er he rests he... | |
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