 | William Macneile Dixon - English poetry - 1911 - 792 pages
...trust the guidance of that faithless light ; For watchful, lurking 'mid th' unrustling reed, At those mirk hours the wily monster lies, And listens oft...eyes, If chance his savage wrath may some weak wretch surpriseVII Ah, luckless swain, o'er all unblest indeed ! Whom late bewilder' d in the dank, dark fen,... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - English poetry - 1911 - 792 pages
...trust the guidance of that faithless light ; For watchful, lurking 'mid th' unrustling reed, At those mirk hours the wily monster lies, And listens oft to hear the passing steed, VII Ah, luckless swain, o'er all unblest indeed ! Whom late bewilder'd in the dank, dark fen, 80 Far... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...dark • valley cut by a river • William of Orange. And listens oft to hear the passing steed, 13° . 10 ' ' 0 for a soft and gentle wind ! ' ' I heard...fair one cry; But give to me the snoring breeze A Ah, luckless swain, o'er all unblest indeed! 105 Whom, late bewilder 'd in the dank, dark fen, Far... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - English poetry - 1918 - 412 pages
...trust the guidance of that faithless light ; For, watohful, lurking 'mid th' unrustling reed, At those mirk hours the wily monster lies, And listens oft...chance his savage wrath may some weak wretch surprise. vn Ah, luckless swain, o'er all unblest indeed ! Whom, late bewildered in the dank, dark fen, Far from... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - English poetry - 1926 - 744 pages
...trust the guidance of that faithless light ; For watchful, lurking 'mid th' unrustling reed, At those mirk hours the wily monster lies, And listens oft...chance his savage wrath may some weak wretch surprise. With sparing temp'rance, at the needful time, They drain the sainted spring, or, hunger-prest, Along... | |
 | Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 422 pages
...trust the guidance of that faithless light; For watchful, lurking 'mid th'unrustling reed, At those mirk hours the wily monster lies, And listens oft...chance his savage wrath may some weak wretch surprise. These are among the breakthroughs from Sensibility into Romanticism, though never into the Wordsworthian... | |
 | R. R. Agrawal - Art - 1990 - 316 pages
...Collins alludes to this superstition thus: For watchful, lurking, 'mid the unrustling reed, At those mirk hours the wily monster lies, And listens oft...eyes, If chance his savage wrath may some weak wretch surprise.74 72 Lines 80-82. 73 Lines 91-98. Collins exemplifies this superstition by referring to the... | |
 | Deborah Elise White - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 252 pages
...light! For watchful, lurking mid the unrusthng reed, At those mirk hours the wily monster lies, 100 And listens oft to hear the passing steed, And frequent...chance his savage wrath may some weak wretch surprise. Ah, luckless swain, o'er all unblest indeed! Whom late bewildered in the dank, dark fen. Far from his... | |
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mid th' unrustling reed, At those mirk hours the wily monster lies, And listens oft to hear the passing steed, And frequent round him rolls his sullen eyes, If chance his savage wrath may some weak wretch surprise. 
