 I view the embattled tower Whence all the music. I again perceive The soothing influence of the wafted strains, And settle in soft musings as I tread The walk, still verdant under oaks and elms, Whose outspread branches overarch the glade. The roof...  Poems - Page 151by William Cowper - 1806Full view - About this book
 | American periodicals - 1895 - 850 pages
...verdant, under oaks and elms Whose outspread branches overarch the glade. The roof, though movable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet...solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where' er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendent drops of ice That tinkle in the withered... | |
 | William Cowper - 1896 - 348 pages
...verdant, under oaks and elms, 70 Whose outspread branches overarch the glade. The roof, though moveable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet...fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. 75 No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...verdant, under oaks and elms, Whose outspread branches overarch the glade. The roof, though mov«able through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well suf6ced, And, Intercepting in their silent fall "akes, me. The frequent flakes, has kept a path for... | |
 | William Cowper - 1898 - 334 pages
...verdant, under oaks and elms, 7° Whose outspread branches overarch the glade. The roof, though moveable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet...fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. 75 No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With... | |
 | English poetry - 1899 - 788 pages
...through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well sufficed, And intercepting in their silent fall No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The...suppressed : Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light 60 From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendant drops of ice, That... | |
 | English poetry - 1899 - 816 pages
...verdant, under oaks and elms, Whose outspread branches overarch the glade. The roof, though moveable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet...well sufficed, And intercepting in their silent fall 75 The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. WILLIAM COWtER 255 No noise is here, or none that hinders... | |
 | William Cowper - 1900 - 346 pages
...verdant, under oaks and elms, 70 Whose outspread branches overarch the glade. The roof, though movable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet...fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. 75 No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With... | |
 | John Scott Clark - American poetry - 1900 - 886 pages
...subjects. Here he was at home and alive to every impression. ' ' —HT Tuckerman. ILLUSTRATIONS. " No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The...but is content With slender notes and more than half supprcss'd ; Pleased with his solitude and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - Scotland in literature - 1900 - 334 pages
...may compare their manner of introducing the same picturesque object in the following passages : — The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes and more than half-suppress' d, Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, wher'er he rests,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1901 - 320 pages
...verdant, under oaks and elms, Whose outspread branches overarch the glade. The roof, though movable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet...suppressed : Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light 30 From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendent drops of ice, That... | |
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