 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
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1893 - 406 pages
...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 the thatch Twice...The white owl in the belfry sits. SECOND SONG TO THE SAMT. THY tuwhits arc lull'd I wot, Thy tuwhoos. of yesternight, Which upon the dark afloat, So took... | |
 | William Langland - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1893 - 280 pages
...etynge and in handlynge • and in alle thi fyue wittis.' Compare Tennyson's Song of the Owl: — ' Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits.' •> 1 7. Hyghte, commanded. To help yout of, to provide you with. 20. In carmine three thinges, three... | |
 | John Burroughs - Natural history - 1895 - 268 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...his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits." Tennyson has not directly celebrated any of the more famous birds, but his poems contain frequent allusions... | |
 | David Sinclair Burleson - English language - 1925 - 440 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. 11. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not... | |
 | 604 pages
...®WLS OF THE BY MRS. BATTEESBT. " When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely smells the new -mown hay, And the cock hath sung beneath the thatch Twice...warming his five wits The white owl in the belfry sits." — TENNYSON. Eren in the time of Pliny, owls were considered birds of ill-omen, and he gives an account... | |
 | American poetry - 1923 - 748 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...his. five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 110 ONCE ONCE I was a monarch's daughter, And sat on a lady's knee; But am now... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 628 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...thrice his roundelay ; Alone and warming his five wits, (1853) The white owl in the belfry sits. XX SECOND SONG TO THE SAME THY tuwhits are lull'd I wot, Thy... | |
 | Melinda McCracken - History - 1975 - 142 pages
...round, Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. When merry milkmaids clock the latch, And rarely smells the new-mown hay, And...warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. The Lincolnshire Poacher — Folk song arranged with descant by HA Chambers As me and my companions... | |
 | Education - 1918 - 684 pages
...five senses; seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling and touching. You remember the poem about the owl: "Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits." Columbkill might be what? P. A stream. T. It was the name of a glen in Ireland. What did the King do?... | |
 | R. P. Hewett - English Poetry - 1985 - 322 pages
...whirring sail goes round ; 5 Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. II When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely smells...new-mown hay, And the cock hath sung beneath the thatch 10 Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay; Alone and warming his five wits, The... | |
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