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
| Mary Prudence Wells Smith - Adventure stories - 1889 - 286 pages
...weird cry of an owl resounded through the silence of the night. " Ha! " cried Herbert; " an owl. ' Alone, and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits.' " His active brain was at its keenest, and he felt as if he could go on talking all night, if only... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1890 - 120 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...warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. 86 DUALISMS. Two bees within a crystal flowerbell rocked, Hum a lovelay to the west-wind at noontide.... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1890 - 976 pages
...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 site. When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely smells the new-mown hay, And the cock hath sung... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1891 - 302 pages
...the whirring sail goes round; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. n. When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely smells...owl in the belfry sits. SECOND SONG. TO THE SAME. rpHY tuwhits are lull'd, I wot, JL Thy tuwhoos of yesternight, Which upon the dark afloat, So took... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1891 - 144 pages
...cats run home and light is come, 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. When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely smells the new-mown hay, And the cock hath sung beneath... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 896 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 Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay; Alone and warming his five wits, The... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 904 pages
...the whirring sail goes round ; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. n. When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely smells...the new-mown hay, And the cock hath sung beneath the Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay; Alone and warming his five wits, The... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 314 pages
...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. II. When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely smells the new-mown hay, And the cock hath sung... | |
| Children - 1893 - 112 pages
...the whirring sail goes round ; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. II. When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely smells...warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. THE OWL AND THE PUSSY-CAT. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat: They... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1893 - 302 pages
...the whirring sail goes round; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. n. When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely smells...warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry site. SECOND SONG. TO THE SAME. t, rpHY tuwhits are lull'd, I wot, _1_ Thy tuwhoos of yesternight,... | |
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