 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...Contemplation ; And the mute Silence hist along, '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 th' accustom'd oak : Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly, Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...Contemplation ; And the mute silence hist along, '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 th' acoustom'd oak ; Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy I Thee,... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 490 pages
...Contemplation ; And the mute silence hist along, '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 th1 accustom'd oak ; Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee,... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...Contemplation; And the mute Silence hist along, '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! Thee,... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...Contemplation; ; And the mute Silence hist along, '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! Thee,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...Contemplation ; And the mute Silence hist along, '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 : Sweetbird, that shunn'st the noiseof folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee,... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 596 pages
...prototype of Hamlet's Ophelia (.fig, 61). '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 th'accustom'd oak. 60 Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy !... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 588 pages
...61). And the mute Silence hist along, 55 '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 th'accustom'd oak. 60 Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy !... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...Contemplation ; And the mute Silence hist along, 55 'Less Philomel will dt-ign a song, in her sweetest, saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night| "While Cynthia checks her dragon yoket Gently o'er th' accustom'd oak; & Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical,... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 pages
...compose part of the solemn scenery of his Penseroso, when he describes it. In her saddest sweetest 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 !... | |
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But, first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged... 
