| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1857 - 432 pages
...airy harps ! And she hath watched Many a nightingale perched giddily On blossomy twig still swinging from the breeze, And to that motion tune his wanton...song Like tipsy joy that reels with tossing head. Farewell, O Warbler ! till tomorrow eve, And you my friends ! farewell, a short farewell ! We have... | |
| Country life - 1857 - 298 pages
...airy harps! and she hath watch'd Many a nightingale pitch'd giddily On blossoming twig still swinging from the breeze, And to that motion tune his wanton...song, Like tipsy joy that reels with tossing head. Coleridge. THE THRUSH. $; ITHIN a thick and spreading hawthorn bush That overhung a molehill large... | |
| Nature in literature - 1864 - 148 pages
...airy harps ! And she hath watched Many a nightingale perched giddily On blossomy twig still swinging from the breeze, And to that motion tune his wanton...song Like tipsy joy that reels with tossing head. Farewell, 0 Warbler ! till to-morrow eve, And you, my friends ! farewell, a short farewell ! We have... | |
| Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...airy harps ! And she hath watch'd Many a nightingale perch'd giddily On blossomy twig still swinging from the breeze, And to that motion tune his wanton...song Like tipsy joy that reels with tossing head. Farewell, O warbler ! till to-morrow eve ; And you, my friends, farewell, a short farewell ! We have... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 792 pages
...airy harps ! And she hath watched Many a nightingale perched giddily On blossomy twig still swinging from the breeze And to that motion tune his wanton song Like tipsy joy that reels with tossing head. Farewell, O Warbler! till to-morrow eve, And you, my friends ! farewell, a short farewell ! We have... | |
| American poetry - 1859 - 148 pages
...airy harps ! And I have watched Many a nightingale perched giddily On blossomy twig still swinging from the breeze, And to that motion tune his wanton...song, Like tipsy Joy that reels with tossing head. COLEKIDGE. EES AND BUTTERFLIES. THE insect-world, now sunbeams higher climb, Oft dream of Spring, and... | |
| William Hone - 1859 - 882 pages
...I have watch'd Many a nightingale perch 'd giddily On Hos'my twig, still swinging from the breez?. And to that motion tune his wanton song, Like tipsy Joy that reels with tossing head. 1. SI. Philip, and St. Jama the less. St. Ataph, Bp. of Llan-Elway, AD 590. St. Mar< •« n. or MarcHlfu*,... | |
| William Harrison ainsworth - 1860 - 516 pages
...earth and sky With one sensation, and these wakeful birds Have all burst forth in choral minstrelsy, As if some sudden gale had swept at once A hundred...poets have been less apt to attribute sadness to the Nightingale's strain. There are still those who adopt the once dominant view, but it is no longer dominant.... | |
| William Allingham - English poetry - 1860 - 316 pages
...airy harps ! And she hath watch'd Many a nightingale perch'd giddily On blossomy twig still swinging from the breeze, And to that motion tune his wanton...song Like tipsy joy that reels with tossing head. Farewell, O Warbler ! till to-morrow eve, And you, my friends ! farewell, a short farewell ! We have... | |
| Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...airy harps ! And she hath watched Many a nightingale perched giddily On blossomy twig still swinging from the breeze, And to that motion tune his wanton...song, Like tipsy joy that reels with tossing head. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. of % Jfloiom. THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing... | |
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