WHEN cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream is dumb, And the whirring sail goes round, And the whirring sail goes round ; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. The Nursery - Page 1021877Full view - About this book
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1843 - 260 pages
...Again thou blushest angerly ; And o'er black brows drops down A sudden-curved frown SONG.— THE OWL. WHEN cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream is dumb, And the whirring sail goes round, And the whirring... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...Again thou blushest angerly ; And o'er black brows drops down A sudden-curved frown. SONG.— THE OWL. WHEN cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream is dumb, And the whirring sail goes round, And the whirring... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1851 - 276 pages
...Again thou blushest angerly; And o'er black brows drops down A sudden-curved frown. SONG. —THE OWL. WHEN cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream is dumb, And the whirring sail goes round, And the whirring... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1853 - 404 pages
...Again thou blushest angerly ; And o'er black brows drops down A sudden-curved frown. SONG.— THE OWL. 1. WHEN cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream is dumb, And the whirring sail goes round, And the whirring... | |
| Henry Gardiner Adams - Birds - 1854 - 110 pages
...bird; and treat them to an Owl song, written by Alfred Tennyson, the Poet Laureate of » England: — "When cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream is dumb, And the whirring sail goes round, And the whirring... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1856 - 400 pages
...Again thou blushest angerly ; And o'er black brows drops down A sudden-curved frown. SONG.—THE OWL. 1. WHEN cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream is dumb, And the whirring sail goes round, And the whirring... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1858 - 402 pages
...Again thou blushest angerly ; And o'er black brows drops down A sudden-curved frown. SONG.— THE OWL. 1. WHEN cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream is dumb, And the whirring sail goes round, And the whirring... | |
| William Allingham - English poetry - 1860 - 316 pages
...water clear, And I wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear. WILLIAM BLAKE. SONG. THE OWL. WHEN cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, Andtthe far-off stream is dumb, And the whirring sail goes round, And the whirring... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 376 pages
...Again thou blushest angerly ; And o'er black brows drops down A sudden-curved frown. SONG. — THE OWL. WHEN cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream is dumb, And the whirring sail goes round, And the whirring... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 366 pages
...Again thou blushest angerly ; And o'er black brows drops down A sudden-curved frown. SONG. — THE OWL. WHEN cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream is dumb, And the whirring sail goes round, And the whirring... | |
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