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" 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. When merry milkmaids... "
First Reader with 4,000 Words for Spelling by Sound - Page 94
by Edward Pearson Moses - 1895 - 96 pages
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Poems, Volume 1

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...amorously, 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...warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. SECOND SONG. TO THE SAME. THY tuwhits are lull'd I wot, Thy tuwhoos of yesternight, Which upon the...
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Poems, Volume 1

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1843 - 260 pages
...amorously, 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...warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. SECOND SONG. TO THE SAME. THY tuwhits are lull'd I wot, Thy tuwhoos of yesternight, Which upon the...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 10

1844 - 836 pages
...sufficiently characterized by its first and last line — "When cats run home, and light is come, — Alone and warming his five wits The white owl in the belfry sits." To the second, we should render injustice, did we copy less than the last stanza. " I would mock thy...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 235

Literature - 1902 - 874 pages
...ancient, solitary reign. Or as Tennyson, always true to Nature In his mention of birds, puts it — Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. I have found the white owl "at home" in many such belfries, where he has often allowed me to handle...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 2

Henry Allon - Christianity - 1845 - 646 pages
...? Is it very wise or profitable to be manufacturing modern antiques, whose best recommenda* ' \Vheo cats run home, and light is come, And dew is cold...warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. 1 Thy tuwhits are lull'd, I wot, Thy tuwhoos of yesternight, Which upon the dark afloat, So took echo...
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The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 6

1845 - 608 pages
...as these to the owl ? We quote them down below in a note.* They are unavailing, even as * s When caU run home, and light is come, And dew is cold upon...Twice or thrice his roundelay ; Alone, and warming hrs five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. s Thy tuwhits are lull'd, I wot, Thy tuwhoos of yesternight,...
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Poems

Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...round, And the whirring sail goes round ; Alone and wanning his five wits, The white owl in the helfry sits. When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely...warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. SECOND SONG. TO THE SAME. THY tuwhits are lull'd I wot, Thy tuwhoos of yesternight, Which upon the...
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Sharpe's London magazine, a journal of entertainment and ..., Volumes 1-2

Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 pages
...belfry sits. When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely smells the new-mown hay, And the cock has sung beneath the thatch ' Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay, — ^ Alone, and vanning his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sill. Tennynn. .miscellaneous. " I have here made...
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Poems, Volume 1

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1846 - 252 pages
...amorously, 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...warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. SECOND SONG. TO THE SAME. THY tuwhits are lull'd I wot, Thy tuwhoos of yesternight, Which upon the...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 1

1847 - 432 pages
...addressed to the Owl, a specimen from each of which will charm our readers, we are convinced: " When.merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely smells the new-mown...his roundelay, Alone and warming his five wits, The while owl in the belfry sits." Now, second: " I would mock thy chaunt anew, But I cannot mimic it;...
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