 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...flows silently O'er its soft bed of verdure. All is stfll, 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... | |
 | American poetry - 1859 - 148 pages
...overflowing words. LEIGH HUNT. THE NIGHTINGALE AT EVE. ALL is still, A balmy night ! and though the stars be dim, Yet let us think upon the vernal showers That...idle thought ! In Nature there is nothing melancholy. 'Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious... | |
 | William Allingham - English poetry - 1860 - 316 pages
...flows silently, O'er its soft bed 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 ! l 1 Most musical, most melancholy. — This passage in Milton possesses an excellence far superior... | |
 | 1860 - 520 pages
...alluded with levity to a line in Milton." Here is that portion of the text which bears upon our subject : And hark ! the Nightingale begins its song, " Most...idle thought ! In nature there is nothing melancholy. * Adonais. f 1 arise from Dreams of Thee. t Ode to Melancholy. § A Morning Exereise. II Poems of the... | |
 | William Harrison ainsworth - 1860 - 516 pages
...alluded with levity to a line in Milton." Here is that portion of the text which bears upon our subject : And hark ! the Nightingale begins its song, " Most...idle thought ! In nature there is nothing melancholy. * Adonais. t I arise from Dreams of Thee. t Ode to Melancholy. § A Morning Exercise. But some night-wandering... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1859 - 830 pages
...Coleridge replies : THE NIGHTINGALE. 103 "And, lurk! the nightingale begins its song, 1 Host musical, moat melancholy' bird. A melancholy bird ? oh ' idle thought ! In nature there is nothing melancholy. ' 1'is the merry nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast, thick warble, his... | |
 | Bookbinding, Victorian - 1861 - 182 pages
...minstrels chirp and fly, Glad as the sunshine and the laughing sky. CLARK, ¥ THE NIGHTINGALE. - ND hark ! the Nightingale begins its song, — " Most...idle thought ! In Nature there is nothing melancholy. 'Tis the merry Nightingale, Tltat crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1863 - 446 pages
...flows silently, O'er its soft bed of verdure. All is still, A balmy night ! and though the stars be dim, Yet let us think upon the vernal showers That...! In nature there is nothing melancholy. But some night- wandering man whose heart was pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1863 - 510 pages
...silently, O'er its soft bed of verdure. AH is still, A balmy night ! and though the stars be dim, Tet let us think upon the vernal showers That gladden...! In nature there is nothing melancholy. But some night- wandering man whose heart was pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1917 - 856 pages
...frost, for instance ; as when he writes in April — 1 A balmy night I and though the stars be dim. Vet let us think upon the vernal showers That gladden...shall find A pleasure in the dimness of the stars.' Of such imaginative treatment of landscape there is no better instance than in the description of the... | |
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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... 
