 O'erhang his wavy bed: Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises, 'midst the twilight path Against the pilgrim borne in heedless...  Chambers's Cyclopędia of English Literature - Page 367by Robert Chambers - 1902Full view - About this book
 | William Collins - 1827 - 234 pages
...Ver. 9. Dodsley, in some editions of his Coll. of Poems, has; While air, etc. Ver. 10. Dodsley reads ; Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn,...pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid compos'd, 15 To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...wove, O'erhang his wavy b«l:Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shrieks flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds...twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless horn : Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, : Whose numbers, stealing through... | |
 | William Collins - 1827 - 234 pages
...While air, etc. Ver. 10. Dodsley reads ; Or where the beetle winds L v His small but sullen horn, y* As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against...pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid compos'd, 15 To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May... | |
 | William Collins - 1828 - 104 pages
...itopt.— Milton'i Comus, r. 340. With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek...rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim born in heedless hum : Now teach me, Maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers... | |
 | William Collins - Poems - 1828 - 108 pages
...stops.— Milton's Com" n, v. 340. With brecle ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed: Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek...rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim born in heedless hum : Now teach me, Maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - France - 1830 - 556 pages
...following passage : " Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat With short, shrill shriek flits on a leathern wing ; Or where the beetle winds His small,...hum. Now, teach me, maid composed, To breathe some soften'd strain ; Whose numbers stealing thro' thy dark'ning vale, May not unseemly with its stillness... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - France - 1830 - 554 pages
...save where the weak-eyed bat With short, shrill shriek flits on a leathern wing ; Or where the l>eetle winds His small, but sullen horn : As oft he rises...hum. Now, teach me, maid composed, To breathe some soften'd strain ; Whose numbers stealing thro' thy dark'ning vale, May not unseemly with its stillness... | |
 | William Collins - 1830 - 240 pages
...western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat ; With short shrill shriek...where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, VARIATIONS. Ver. 2. May hope, O pensive Eve, to soothe thine ear. 3. Like thy own solemn springs, 9.... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air Is hush'd, save Where the weak-ey'd bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern...where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As ofl he rises midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid... | |
 | William Collins, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Sir Egerton Brydges, John Langhorne - English poetry - 1830 - 234 pages
...Like thy own solemn springs, 9. While air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat TO EVENING. e 49 As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, > Against...borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid composed, 15 To breathe some soften'd strain, \ Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening' vale, May not... | |
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