Most musical, most melancholy" bird! A melancholy bird? Oh! idle thought! 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, or neglected love, (And... THE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. - Page 155by William Harrison ainsworth - 1860Full view - About this book
| William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetry - 1798 - 240 pages
...! In nature there is nothing melancholy. — But some night-wandering Man, whose heart was pierc'd With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper or neglected love, (And so, poor Wretch ! fill'd all things with himself And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrows)... | |
| Books - 1799 - 618 pages
...In nature there is nothing melancholy. • — But some night-wandering Man, whose heart was pierc'i With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper or neglected love, (And so, poor Wretch ! fill'd all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrows)... | |
| 1799 - 614 pages
...remembrance of a gi ievous wrong, Or slow distemper or neglected love, (And so, poor Wretch ! fill'd all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrows) he and such as he First nam'd these notes a melancholy strain ; .And manya poet echoes the... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1800 - 270 pages
...remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper 'or negleded love, (And so, poor Wretch ! fill'd all things with himself And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrows) he and such as he First named these notes a melancholy strain : And many a poet echoes the... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...! In nature there is nothing melancholy. — But some night- wandering Man, whose heart was pierc'd With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch ! fill'd all things with himself,. And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrows)... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...thought! In Nature there is nothing melancholy. —But some night-wandering Man, whose heart was pierc'd With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow...distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor Wretch! fill'd all things with himself And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrows) he,... | |
| William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ballads - 1805 - 284 pages
...melancholy*" Bird ! A melancholy Bird ? O idle thought ! In nature there is nothing melancholy. — But some- night-wandering Man, whose heart was pierced...a grievous wrong,. Or slow distemper, or neglected lovej. (And so, poor wretch ! filled all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 pages
...melancholy*" Bird ! A melancholy Bird ? O idle thought ! In nature there is nothing melancholy. — But some night-wandering Man, whose heart was pierced..."With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow di&temper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch L filled all things with himself, And made all gentle... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1816 - 420 pages
...description : it is spoken in the character of the melancholy man, and has therefore a dramatic propriety. And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrows), he, and such as he, And many a poet echoes the conceit, First named these notes a'melancholy... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 334 pages
...most melancholy" Bird ! A melancholy Bird ? Oh ! idle thought ! In nature there is nothing melancholy. But some night-wandering man, whose heart was pierced...distemper, or neglected love, (And so poor Wretch ! fill'd all things with himself And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrow) he,... | |
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