 IF AUGHT of oaten stop or pastoral song May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear Like thy own solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales...  Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, Young - Page 204edited by - 1810Full view - About this book
 | England - English poetry - 1860 - 532 pages
...aye to be, For Auld Eobin Gray, oh I he is sae kind to me. LAI,V ANNE BARNARD. ' IF aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe...solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales ; O nymph reserved, while now the bright-haired Sun Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede... | |
 | Marlborough coll - 1860 - 310 pages
...illi ; Pulchra minus non esse potest ; tu semper amabis. AC MADAN. ODE TO EVENING. If aught of oaten stop or pastoral song May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe...thy own solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales ; О Nymph reserved, — while now the bright-haired sun Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 pages
...cypress wreath my meed decree, And I, O Fear, will dwell with thee! ODE TO EVENING.8 If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe...own solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales; 0 nymph reserved, while now the briglit-lmir'J sun Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 pages
...soothe thy modest ear, Like thy own solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales ; O nymph reserved, while now the bright-hair'd sun Sits in yon western...skirts, With brede ethereal wove, 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,... | |
 | Marlborough coll - 1860 - 310 pages
...esse potest ; tu semper amabis. AC MADAN. К) ODE TO EVENING. If aught- of oaten stop or pastoral eong May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear Like...thy own solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales ; 0 Nymph reserved,—while now the bright-haired sun Site in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts... | |
 | 1871 - 388 pages
...seek to atone, By affecting devoutness in prayers. 'AXiKt. aught of oaten stop or pastoral song Hay hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear, Like thy own solemn springs, Thy springs and dying ga]es ; O Nymph reserved — while now the bright-haired sun Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy... | |
 | 1836 - 282 pages
...Muse of Evening, in the exquisite words of Collins. " Oh, Nymph reserved, while now the bright-haired sun Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts,...With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed—" &c. &c. 'Tis of no use. Inspiration cannot be awakened to-night. The summit of Soracte is no longer... | |
 | James Chapman - 286 pages
...still calm peace to keep, Beneath a flowery turf they sleep. Warton. TO EVENING. IF ought of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe...reserv'd, while now the bright-hair'd sun Sits in yon eastern tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede etherial wove, 9. Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eye'd... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...handling of vowel sounds and rhythmic effects compensates for the lack of rhyme: If aught of oaten stop or pastoral song May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe...solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales, O nymph reserved, while now the bright-haired sun Sits in yon western tent, . . . Collins' career petered out... | |
 | Doris Eveline Faulkner Jones - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 244 pages
...stilled as to be scarcely perceptible ; to emphasise it would be to destroy the poem. "If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe...solemn springs, Thy springs and dying gales ; O nymph reserved, while now the bright-hair'd sun Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede... | |
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