 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er th' accustom'd oak ; eo Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even-song ; And missing thee, I walk unseen 65 On... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 836 pages
...chantry by. Sha/Laxare. The poets eaant in the theatres, the shepherds in the mountains. ЯгачЛгИ. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly. Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chantreu oft, the woods among, I woo to hear thy even song. Male», A pleasant grove, With chant of... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1841 - 344 pages
...melancholy one ; and to this no one has a more agreeable allusion than Milton : Sweet bird, that shunn'et the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy,...Thee, chantress, oft the woods among I woo to hear thy evening song. The nightingale is in fact, however, a cheerful bird. She sings by day as well as by... | |
 | William Gadiner - 1841 - 508 pages
...with a beautiful and solemn melody : — tr Handel has closely copied her in the following strain — Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical — most melancholy ! 222 It is difficult to account for so small a creature as a bird making a tone as loud as some animals... | |
 | Children's literature - 1846 - 872 pages
...Read it with diligence and prayer ; Search it, and you will find Him there." 120 THE NIGHTINGALE. " Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy.'' THE first and most celebrated of the tuneful tribe is the Nightingale, a small bird, seven inches in... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak : orms was seen to move, As Idless fancied in her dreaming...and fro, Sent forth a sleepy horror through the blo smoolh-shaven green, To behold the wandering Moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had... | |
 | Seasons - 1844 - 276 pages
...arrival of the swallow, the nightingale, that most accomplished and enchanting of songsters, is heard — Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song. MILTON. He sings by day as well as by night ; but in the day-time his voice is drowned in the multitude... | |
 | American periodicals - 1866 - 848 pages
...that is in itself a beauty. For instance, in his address to the nightingale : — " Thee, chnuntrcss, oft the woods among, I woo to hear thy even-song,...missing thee, I walk unseen, On the dry smooth-shaven greeu." The song of the nightingale ceases abont the time that the grass is mowu. ' The Reverend Doctor... | |
 | Bourne Hall Draper - 1844 - 504 pages
...bird. Milton notices this in one of the most beautiful of his poems, — " Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy...chantress, oft the woods among, I woo to hear thy evening song 1 " And Cowper delightfully compares the retired Christian to the nightingale. Referring... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
..."whist." See note 2, p. 296. While Cynthia checks1 her dragon-yoke, Gentle o'er the accustomed oak. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...chantress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering... | |
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Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak : Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy... 
