 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 sivua
...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,... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 sivua
...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 !... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 sivua
...Contemplation ; 10 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 ! "... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 sivua
...Contemplation ; i0 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 ! n... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 280 sivua
...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!»... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 sivua
...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, Stoeet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly. Most musical, most melancholy !... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 sivua
...Contemplation ;10 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 ! "... | |
 | 1846 - 436 sivua
...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 accustomed oak. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee,... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 sivua
...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,... | |
 | Migratory birds - 1847 - 74 sivua
...minstrelsy, waking in the heart of many a lone exile thoughts too deep for tears : " 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 !... | |
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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... 
