 | Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...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, chauntress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even-song: And missing thee, I walk unseen On the... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, 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... | |
 | George Soane - Fasts and feasts - 1847 - 360 pages
...resumes the same sound." * Milton, as most readers will recollect, thus addresses the nightingale ; " Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...the woods among, I woo to hear thy evening song." — II Penseroso. Virgil uses the melancholy of the nightingale in an exquisite simile to express the... | |
 | Migratory birds - Birds - 1847 - 74 pages
...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...oft the woods among, I woo to hear thy evening song ; And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...Night ; While Cynthia checks her dragon-yoke, Gently o er th' accustom'd oak. Sweet bird, that shuim'st he er'ning song : And missing thcc, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wand'ring... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...Smoothing the rugged brow of Night ; While Cynthia checks her dragon-yoke, Gently o er th' accustoru'd oak. d Lincoln"% Chambers Robert" Robert Chambers( 1 woo, to hear thy ev'ning song : And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...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, chauntress, oft the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk, unseen,... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 154 pages
...Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er th' accustom'd oak ; Sweet bird, that, shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...chantress, 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 the wand'ring... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...Smoothing the rugged brow of Night ; While Cynthia checks her dragon-yoke, Gently o er th' accustom'd oak. *)7EA' 6]ڡ S ( \u ~ \] % %yZ@ _x; Ҙz Z1ZOe@#' \ ev'ning song : And missing thce, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wand'ring... | |
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Less Philomel will deign a song In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak; Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! 
