 | Wood-notes - 1842 - 160 pages
...silently O'er its soft bed of verdure. All is still : A balmy night ! and, though the stars be dim, JJ ! i Yet let us think upon the vernal showers That gladden...! In nature there is nothing melancholy. But some night- wandering man, whose heart was pierced I With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper,... | |
 | John Frederick Boyes - 1842 - 332 pages
...âтep. From the preceding charge Coleridge vindicates the nightingale, as Cassandra docs in the text. And hark ! the nightingale begins its song, " Most...melancholy" bird ! A melancholy bird ! Oh ! idle thought ! And some lines further — "Tis the merry nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates,... | |
 | Seasons - 1844 - 276 pages
...April night, and the song of this syren : — All is still, A balmy night ! and though the stars be dim, Yet let us think upon the vernal showers That...dimness of the stars. And hark ! the nightingale begins his song, He crowds, and hurries, and precipitates, With fast thick warble, his delicious notes, As... | |
 | Periodicals - 1844 - 276 pages
...TIIOJISON. Coleridge, however, does not admit that the character of the song is melancholy. He says: A melancholy bird! Oh ! idle thought—- In nature...man, whose heart was pierced With the remembrance of some grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love; (And so, poor wretch ! fill'd all things... | |
 | Literature - 1895 - 862 pages
...Coleridge, the nightingale was no bird of sadness ; " A melancholy bird ?" he too would have exclaimed, "Oh, idle thought ! In Nature there is nothing melancholy....pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong. (And so, poor wretch ! filled all things with himself) First named these notes a melancholy strain.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 pages
...flows silently, O'er ils soft bed of verdure. All is still, A balmy night ! and though the stars be en in tliia circle, ) ! what an impulse felt 1 in...— rt dared not but be silent. And those brillia "t bird ! V melancholy bird Î Oh ! idle thought ! n nature there is nothing melancholy, ut some night-wandering... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - English literature - 1845 - 396 pages
...their life, and to break them off before the hour." One of the sweetest of our modern poets says, — And hark ! the nightingale begins its song, " Most...idle thought ! In nature there is nothing melancholy. So sings the sweet poet. Are these the mere fancies of the brain, illusions of the imagination, or... | |
 | George Soane - Fasts and feasts - 1847 - 360 pages
...eloquent upon the same side of the question. " All is still ! A balmy night, and though the stars be dim, Yet let us think upon the vernal showers That...musical, most melancholy' bird ! — A melancholy bird ? O, idle thought ! In nature there is nothing melancholy ; But some night-wandering man, whose heart... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1847 - 310 pages
...flows silently, O'er its soft bod of verdure. All is still, A balmy night ! and though the stars be dim, Yet let us think upon the vernal showers That...begins its song, " Most musical, most melancholy " bird ! ' 1 " Most musical, fno&t* melancholy."] This passage in Milton possesses an excellence far superior... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 pages
...is still, A bnlmy night! and though the stars be dim, Yet let us think upon the vernal showers Tnal gladden the green earth, and we shall find A pleasure...dimness of the stars. And hark ! the Nightingale begins ils song. • " A beautiful whit** rlnud of foam at momentary interva counted by tho fide of the vpssi'l... | |
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Of sullen light, no obscure trembling hues. Come, we will rest on this old mossy bridge ! You see the glimmer of the stream beneath, But hear no murmuring : it flows silently, O'er its soft bed of verdure. All is still, A balmy night ! and though the... 
