 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er th' acoustom'd oak ; Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy I Thee, chantress of the woods among, I woo to hear thy evening song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen... | |
 | English essays - 1810 - 350 pages
...ideas of which were exquisitely suited to my present wanderings of thought. " Sweet bird ! that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical ! most melancholy...chantress, oft, the woods among, I woo to hear thy ev'ning song : And missing thee I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven gr«en, To behold the wand'ring... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 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... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 588 pages
...the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, ' Gently o'er th'accustom'd oak. 60 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 65 On... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 596 pages
...Smoothing, the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er th'accustom'd oak. 60 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 65 On... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...the rugged brow of night| "While Cynthia checks her dragon yoket Gently o'er th' 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 65... | |
 | Charles Fothergill - Philosophy - 1813 - 288 pages
...Smoothing the rugged hrow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er th* nccustom'd oak . Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chnntress ! oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even-song :" and still less, perhaps, ought we to... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1848 - 494 pages
...complaining notes Tune my distresses, and record my woes.' Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act v., Scene 4. • ' Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! ' II Penseroso. See also<the exquisite allusions in Paradise Lost, Books iii. and m ciation only... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 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 evening song. * jGllan Var. Hist. 577, both in the... | |
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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! 
