 And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green. To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon. Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a...  Select British Classics - Page 1171803Full view - About this book
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1815 - 582 pages
...Penseroso : 1 walk unseen On the dry, smooth -shaven green, To behold the wandering; moon, Hiding neir her highest noon ; Like one that had been led astray Through the Heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, is if her head she bow'd, Stooping :hrougli .1 fleecy cloud. Oft,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...among I woo, to hear thy even-song, And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wand'ring moon, Riding near her highest...noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Oft,... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...among I woo to hear thy even-song ; And missing thue, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wand'ring moon Riding near her highest...noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloudy Oft... | |
 | England - 1840 - 876 pages
...sameness of the untrodden sky ? " I walk unseen On tne dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering Moon Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the Heaven's wide pathless way; And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud." May... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1818 - 358 pages
...pilot of some small Anight-foundered skiff;" and the lines in the Penseroso, describing the wandering moon, " Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way," are as if he had gazed himself blind in looking at her. There is also... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 328 pages
...eight leading images: in the following, of equal length, there is only one. To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, .Like one that...been led astray Through the heav'n's wide pathless war ; And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. The sounds that can be, in... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way ; And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Oft,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering I had f m.+ Heaven's wide pathless wny ; And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Oft,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1821 - 386 pages
...à flatter l'oreille qu'à plaire à l'esprit. » Riding near her highest noon ; Like one that hat! been led astray Through the heav'n's wide pathless way , And oft , as if her head she bow'd Stooping throngh a .flwcy cloud. Ol'l , on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sonnd , Over some... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - Poetry - 1822 - 260 pages
...object to render it still more so by accumulation of accessary " images'' that belong to it ; thus To behold the wand'ring moon, Riding, near her highest...noon, Like one that had been led astray, Through the heav'ns wide pathless way. Here are five or six images, all in relation, and all of the highest poetical... | |
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