 O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises, 'midst the twilight path Against the pilgrim borne in heedless...  Country life [poems]. - Pàgina 48per Country life - 1873 - 147 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 378 pàgines
...'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, is The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. '' Or where the beetle winds His small, but sullen horn...path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum." W. V. 10. The " ignavus bubo" of Ovid. Met. v. 550. The two following passages might supply the images... | |
 | Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society - 1853 - 254 pàgines
...his " Ode to Evening," could not be correctly applied to them. He says : " Now air is hushed, save Where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn ;...twilight path, Against the pilgrim, borne in heedless hum ;" for these creatures were not seen by mortal eye, nor was their hum music to mortal ear. Upwards... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pàgines
...ethereal wove, O'erhang hie wavy bed : Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek, flits by on leathern wing Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen hum, As oft he rises midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach... | |
 | Rev.H. Musgrave Wilkins,M.A. - 1851 - 300 pàgines
...(MASON.) EXERCISE CXLV. HYMN TO EVENING. Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing ; Or where the beetle winds As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum ; Now teach me,... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pàgines
...ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing ; Or where...softened strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit ; As, musing slow, I hail Thy genial loved... | |
 | Class-book - 1852 - 152 pàgines
...ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek, flits by on leathern wing, Or where...hum : Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1852 - 356 pàgines
...ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where...hum; Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some soften'd strain, ODE TO EVENING. 165 Whose numbers stealing through thy darkening vale May not unseemly... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray - 1852 - 332 pàgines
...ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : — Now air is husb/d, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing; Or where...hum : Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some soften'd strain. Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pàgines
...his wavy bed : Xow air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd b»t, With short shrill shriek flits on by leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small...pilgrim borne in heedless hum: Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers , stealing through thy darkening vale, May... | |
 | Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society - 1852 - 244 pàgines
...his " Ode to Evening," could not be correctly applied to them, He says ; " Now air is hushed, save Where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn ;...twilight path, Against the pilgrim, borne in heedless hum ;" for these creatures were not seen by mortal eye, nor was their hum music to mortal ear. Upwards... | |
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