 | William Cowper - 1800 - 438 pàgines
...train; one hand employ'd In letting fall the curtain of repose On bird and beast, the other charg'd for man With sweet oblivion of the cares of day: Not sumptuously adorn' d, nor needing aid, Like homely featur'd night, of clust'ring gems; A star or two, just twinkling... | |
 | 1802 - 302 pàgines
...step slow-moving, while the night Treads on thy sweeping train ; one hand employ 'd In letting fall the curtain of repose On bird and beast, the other...charged for man With sweet oblivion of the cares of day • 3ifl Not sumptuously adorn'd, nor needing aid, Like homely featured night, of clustering gems;... | |
 | William Cowper - 1802 - 350 pàgines
...train ; one hand employ'd In letting fall the curtain of repose On bird and beast, the other charg'd for man With sweet oblivion of the cares of day : Not sumptuously adorn'd, nor needing aid, Like homely featur'd night, of clust'ring gems ; A star or two, just twinkling... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 234 pàgines
...on thy sweeping train ; one hand employe*; In letting fall the curtain of repose Qg bird and benst, the other charged for man With sweet oblivion of the...day : Not sumptuously adorned, nor needing aid, Like homely -featured night, of clustering gems ; A star or two, just twinkling on thy brow", Suffices thee... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pàgines
...train ; one hand employ'd In letting fall the curtain of repose On bird and beast, the other charg'd for man With sweet oblivion of the cares of day: .Not, sumptuously adorn'd, not needing aid, Like homely-feat ur'd Night, of clust'ring gems; A star or two, just twinkling... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 212 pàgines
...train ; one hand employ'd In letting fall the curtain of repose On bird and beast, the other charg'd for man, "With sweet oblivion of the cares of day : Not sumptuously adorn'd, nor needing aid, Like homely featur'd night, of clust'ring gems ; A star or two, just twinkling... | |
 | William Cowper - 1811 - 228 pàgines
...train ; one hand employ'd In letting fall the curtain of repose On bird and beast, the other charg'd for man With sweet oblivion of the cares of day : Not sumptuously adorn'd, nor needing aid, Like homely-featur'd night, of clust'ring gems ; A star or two, just twinkling... | |
 | William Cowper - 1817 - 240 pàgines
...letting fall the curtain of repose On hird and heast, the other charged lor man With sweet ohlivion of the cares of day : Not sumptuously adorned, nor...clustering gems ; A star or two, just twinkling on thy hrow, Sullices thee ; save that the moon is thine No less then hers, not worn indeed on high With ostentatious... | |
 | William Cowper - 1817 - 252 pàgines
...letting fall the curtain of repose On hird and heast, the other charged for man With sweet ohlivion of the cares of day : Not sumptuously adorned, nor...clustering gems ; A star or two, just twinkling on thv hrow. Suffices thee ; save that the moon is thine No less then hers, not worn indeed on high With... | |
 | 1876 - 818 pàgines
...step slow moving, while the night Treads on thy sweeping train ; one hand employed In letting fall the curtain of repose On bird and beast, the other...for man With sweet oblivion of the cares of day." But gentle and delightful as is Cowper's song about the long evening, conceived in the plenitude of... | |
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Night, of clustering gems A star or two just twinkling on thy brow, Suffices thee ; save that the moon is thine No less... 
