 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.  Poems - Page 10by Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845Full view - About this book
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Outdoor life - 1865 - 116 pages
...round, And the whirring sail goes round ; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 pages
...the whirring sail goes round ; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. 2. When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely smells...owl in the belfry sits. SECOND SONG. TO THE SAME. 1. THY tuwhits are lull'd I wot, Thy tuwhoos of yesternight, Which upon the dark afloat, So took echo... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1866 - 236 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,*...warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. Thy tuwhits are lull'd I wot, Thy tuwhoos of yesternight, Which upon the dark afloat, So took echo... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1866 - 398 pages
...round, And the whirring sail goes round ; Alone and warming his five wits The white owl in the belfry sits. When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely...the new-mown hay, And the cock hath sung beneath the thatck Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay ; Alone and warming his five wits... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 400 pages
...round, And the whirring sail goes round ; Alone and warming his five wits The white owl in the belfry sits. When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely...the new-mown hay, And the cock hath sung beneath the thatck Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay ; Alone and warming his five wits... | |
 | James Cundall - 1866 - 554 pages
...owl usually prefers some ivied ruin or church tower as its resting-place. Tennyson mentions it as ' ' Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits." Owls are sometimes destroyed under the belief that they prey upon the young game, but this is very... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1868 - 402 pages
...round, And the whirring sail goes round ; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely...the new-mown hay, And the cock hath sung beneath the thatc' Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay ; Alone and wanning his five wits,... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 340 pages
...And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream is dumb, And the whirring sail goes round; Alone, and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. — TENNYSON. I see thee coming, critic owl ! — ' I see thee from thy haunt advance ; With griping... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1869 - 658 pages
...Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. RECOLLECTIONS OP THE ARAWAN NIGHXi When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely smells the new-mown hay, And the cook hath sung beneath the thatch Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay; Alone... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 264 pages
...round, And the whirring sail goes round ; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely...owl in the belfry sits. SECOND SONG. TO THE SAME. 1. THY tuwhits are lull'd I wot, Thy tuwhcos of yesternight, Which upon the dark afloat, So took echo... | |
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