 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 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 th' accustom'd oak ; Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy... | |
 | 1840 - 876 sivua
...the pensive spirit of the poet implores that— " 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." Does not the lovely light seem sometimes to rejoice when the blue concave is all... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 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, shuun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy !... | |
 | Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - 1818 - 894 sivua
...compose part of the solemn scenery of his Penseroso, when he describes it. Ip her saddest sweetest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night ; While Cynthia checks her dragon yqke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak; {fweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 sivua
...Contemplation; And the mute Silence hiss'd 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 shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy !... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 sivua
...Contemplation ; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest s the accustom'd oak : Sweet bird, that sliunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy !... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 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 !... | |
 | 1822 - 284 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,. Sweet Bird! that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, Chantress! oft,... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 sivua
...mute silence hist along, Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest, saddest plight, Soothing the rugged brow of night. . . While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the aocustom'd oak ; Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 sivua
...Contemplation ; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In his 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 shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee,... | |
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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... 
