 | William Cowper - 1836 - 404 pages
...Pers. 31. 14 Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in ber sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their...nests. Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; On bird and beast, the other charged for man With sweet oblivion of the cares of day ; 250 Not sumptuously... | |
 | Louis Désiré Véron - 1836 - 748 pages
...thronc attend. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery ail things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, TOME XXXIV. OCTOBxE. 12 Were slnnk, ail but thc wakcful nightingale; She ail uight long her amorous... | |
 | Edward Wilson Landor - 1836 - 614 pages
...called forth. " Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied : for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their neits, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung :... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...throne attend. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their...nightingale. She all night long her amorous descant sung: Silence was pleased. Now glowed the firmament With living Saphirs; Hesperus, that led The starry... | |
 | Stuart Feder - Music - 1992 - 444 pages
...evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for the beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests were slunk. (Evening)12 One evening just at sunset we laid him in the grave, although a humble animal his heart... | |
 | Oscar George Sonneck - Electronic journals - 1924 - 734 pages
...were he on a desert island, far from concert-halls and opera-houses. You remember Milton's lines : All but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased. You remember, too, Tennyson's: I do but sing because I must, And pipe but... | |
 | Philip Lambert - Music - 1997 - 332 pages
...Eveningon, and Twilight gray had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for the beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these...nests were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; | but the ... She all night long [ ... all night long, all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence... | |
 | Judith A. Stein - Bible - 1999 - 180 pages
...all things clad; Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, They to thir grassie Couch, these to thir Nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful Nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; With living Saphirs: Hesperus that led Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the Firmament The starrie... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird,0 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were...nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung;0 Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament With Irving sapphires: Hesperus that led0 The... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - Poetry - 2003 - 388 pages
...things clad; Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, BOH They to thir grassy Couch, these to thir Nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful Nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the Firmament With living Sapphires: Hesperus that led ens The... | |
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Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous... 
