 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1834 - 408 pages
...trips From this to that, then quick returning skips And snatches this again, and pauses there ; She measures every measure, every where Meets art with...in doubt, Not 'perfect yet, and fearing to be out, Trails her plain ditty in one low-spun note, Through the sleek passage of her open throat : A clear... | |
 | Friendly contributions - 1836 - 292 pages
...trips From this to that ; then, quick returning, skips And snatches this again, and pauses there. She measures every measure, every where Meets art with...in doubt, Not perfect yet, and fearing to be out, Trails her plain ditty in one long-spun note, Through the sleek passage of her open throat, A clear... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1839 - 388 pages
...quick returning skips And snatches this again, and pauses there. She measures every measure, everywhere Meets art with art ; sometimes, as if in doubt, Not perfect yet, and fearing to be out, Trails her plain ditty in one low-spun note, Through the sleek passage of her open throat : A clear... | |
 | Caricatures and cartoons - 1847 - 574 pages
...despatched by BUNK, the Bard, to the Swedish Nightin' ? And— " She measures every measure ; everywhere Meets art with art ; sometimes as if in doubt, Not perfect yet, and fearing to be out, Trails her plain ditty in one long-spun note, Through the sleek passage of her open throat, A clear... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1844 - 584 pages
...the lutanist has played a strain, the nightingale answers. " She measures every measure, everywhere Meets art with art ; sometimes, as if in doubt Not perfect yet, and fearing to be out, Wails her plain ditty in one long-spun note, Through the sleek passage of her open throat, A clear,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...returning, ekips And snatches this again, and pauses there. She measures every measure, everywhere ny weeks ere the poor fools will yean ; So many years ere I shall shear the fleece : S Trails her plain ditty in one long-spun note, Through the sleek passage of her open throat, A clear... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...returning, skips And snatches this again, and pauses there. She measures every measure, everywhere Trails her plain ditty in one long-spun note, Through the sleek passage of her open throat, A clear... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...returning, skips And snatches this again, and pauses there. She measures every measure, everywhere Meets art with art ; sometimes, as if in doubt Not perfect yet, and fearing to be out, Trails her plain ditty in one long-spun note, Through the sleek passage of her open throat, A clear... | |
 | Richard Crashaw - Emblems - 1857 - 408 pages
...quick returning skips And snatches this again, and pauses there. She measures ev'ry measure, ev'ry where Meets art with art; sometimes, as if in doubt, Not perfect yet, and fearing to be out, Trails her plain ditty in one long-spun note, Through the sleek passage of her open throat, A clear... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 478 pages
...returning, skips And snatches this again, and pauses there. She measures every measure, everywhere Meets art with art; sometimes, as if in doubt Not perfect yet, and fearing to be out, Trails her plain ditty in one long-spun note, Through the sleek passage of her open throat, A clear... | |
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Trails her plain ditty in one long-spun note, Through the sleek passage of her open throat, A clear unwrinkled song ; then doth she... 
