 Every thing did banish moan, Save the nightingale alone : She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Lean'd her breast up-till a thorn, And there sung the dolefull'st ditty, That to hear it was great pity :  The Works of William Shakespeare - Page 134by William Shakespeare - 1812Full view - About this book
 | Edmondstoune Duncan - Ballads, English - 1927 - 634 pages
...1574-1627 'ill. Philomel A! it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made, Beasts did leap and birds...nightingale alone : She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Leaned her breast up-till a thorn, And there sung the dolefull'st ditty That to hear it was great pity.... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...She, poor bird, as all forlorn Leaned her breast against a thorn, 10 And there sung the dolefull'st ditty That to hear it was great pity. 'Fie, fie, fie?'...'Tereu, tereu?' by and by; That to hear her so complain 15 Scarce I could from tears refrain; For her griefs so lively shown Made me think upon mine own. Ah,... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - English poetry - 1927 - 496 pages
...(1574-1627) Philomel A; it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made, Beasts did leap and birds did sing, Trees did grow and plants did spring; Everything did banish moan Save the Nightingale alone : She, poor bird, as all forlorn Lean'd her breast... | |
 | Norman Ault - English poetry - 1928 - 566 pages
...Chrestoleros, 1598. An Ode As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made, Beasts did leap and birds...nightingale alone. She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Leaned her breast against a thorn, ngainst a thorn] 1600 ; up-till a thorn, 1598. And there sung the... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - Poetry - 1928 - 1390 pages
...day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made. 1574-1627 Beasts did leap and birds did sing, Trees did grow...plants did spring; Every thing did banish moan Save die Nightingale alone: She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Leaned her breast up-till a thorn, And there... | |
 | George Reuben Potter - English literature - 1928 - 640 pages
...BARNFIELD (1574-1627) As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade, Which a grove of myrtles made, Beasts did leap, and birds did sing, Trees did grow, and plants did spring; Everything did banish moan, Save the nightingale alone. She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Leaned her... | |
 | C. E. de Haas - Country life in literature - 1928 - 322 pages
...(1574-1627) in An Ode, printed in The Passionate Pilgrim has (Ward's English Poets, Vol. I, p. 477) : She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Lean'd her breast up-till a thorn. And there sung the dolefull'st ditty. closest observers of nature in a naturalistic age.1 * There are, however, many more... | |
 | Education - 1908 - 690 pages
...William has it: As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade, Which a grove of myrtles made. Beasts did leap and birds did sing, Trees did grow and plants did Everything did banish moan, Save the Nightingale alone. spring, "Beasts did leap" — the young colts... | |
 | American poetry - 1923 - 748 pages
...KEATS ii4 PHILOMEL As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made, Beasts did leap and birds did sing, Trees did grow and plants did spring; Everything did banish moan Save the Nightingale alone: She, poor bird, as all forlorn Leaned her breast... | |
 | 300 pages
...She, poor bird, as all forlorn, 10 Leaned her breast up-till a thorn, And there sung the dolefull'st ditty, That to hear it was great pity: 'Fie, fie,...fie', now would she cry; 'Tereu, Tereu !' by and by; 15 That to hear her so complain, Scarce I could from tears refrain; For her griefs so lively shown... | |
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