 Sleepless! and soon the small birds' melodies Must hear, first uttered from my orchard trees; And the first cuckoo's melancholy cry. Even thus last night, and two nights more, I lay, And could not win thee, Sleep! by any stealth: So do not let me wear...  The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth - Page 154by William Wordsworth - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 1859 - 558 pages
...shade The bosom's stainless pride, Curling like tendrils of the parasite Around a marhle column.'t " A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by, One after...Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky ; By turns have all been thought of; yet I lie Sleepless; and soon the small bird's melodies Must hear,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1922 - 784 pages
...sonnet to his mistress' eyebrow than he to the coy divinity. His form of ritual too have I tried. ' A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by, One after one, the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring.' I have thought of all by turns, yet Sleep could I not win by any stealth. For I cannot command these... | |
 | William Allingham - English poetry - 1860 - 316 pages
...himself, though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all. SIB HENRY WOTTON. [WANT OP SLEEP.] A FLOCK of sheep that leisurely pass by, One after one ; the sound of rain, and trees Murmuring ; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...the ground, And little motion in the air Except the mill-wheel's sound. CCLXVI PB Shelley TO SLEEP I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless...and soon the small birds' melodies Must hear, first utter'd from my orchard trees, And the first cuckoo's melancholy cry. Even thus last night, and two... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 438 pages
...the ground, And little motion in the air Except the mill-wheel's sound. PB Shelley CCLXVI TO SLEEP A FLOCK of sheep that leisurely pass by One after...Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky ; I 've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless ; and soon the small birds' melodies Must... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 264 pages
...children in one hamlet born and bred: So runs the round of life from hour to hour. TO SLEEP. Tennyson. A FLOCK of sheep that leisurely pass by, One after...Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas; Smooth field, white sheets of water, and pure sky; I have thought of all by turns, and yet do lie Sleepless... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 982 pages
...the air Except the mill-wheel's sound. CCLXVI / TO SLEEP * A FLOCK of sheep that leisurely pass by /V One after one ; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring...Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky ; I 've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless ; and soon the small birds' melodies Must... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1865 - 318 pages
...slave of them who never for thee prayed, Still last to come where thou art wanted most ! TO SLEEP n A FLOCK of sheep that leisurely pass by, One after...Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky ; I have thought of all by turns, and yet do lie Sleepless ! and soon the small birds' melodies Must... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1865 - 316 pages
...slave of them who never for thee prayed, Still last to come where thou art wanted most ! TO SLEEP II A FLOCK of sheep that leisurely pass by, One after...Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky ; I have thought of all by turns, and yet do lie Sleepless ! and soon the small birds' melodies Must... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1865 - 432 pages
...slave of them who never for thee prayed, Still last to come where thou art wanted most! XIV. TO SLEEP. Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky; I have thought of all by turns, and yet to lie Sleepless ! and soon the small birds' melodies Must... | |
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