No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half suppress'd : Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes From many a... The Poems of William Cowper - Page 277by William Cowper - 1828 - 427 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Cowper - 1842 - 162 pages
...well suffic'd, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. 75 No noise is here, or none that hinders thought The...is content With slender notes, and more than half suppreis'd : Fleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he... | |
| 1843 - 488 pages
...glade. The roof, though moveable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well sufficed, And intercepting in their silent fall The frequent...still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half-suppress'd ; Pleased with his solitude and flitting light From spray to spray, wiiere'er he rests... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...glade. The roof, though movable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well sufficed, s, To act as an angel, and mix with the skies : Those poets who owe their suppressed : Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...glade. The roof, though movable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well sufficed, iam and Robert Chambers elender notes, and more than half suppressed : Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray... | |
| Seasons - 1844 - 276 pages
...fence off the northern blast, The season smiles, resigning all its rage, And has the warmth of May. No noise is here, or none that hinders thought : The...still, but is content With slender notes and more than half-suppress'd ; Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...glade. The roof, though moveable through all its length, As the wind sways it, has yet well suffic'd, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent...spray, where'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendrnt drops of ice That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...glade. The roof, though moveable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well sufficed, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent...is content With slender notes, and more than half suppressed : Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 512 pages
...glade. The roof, though moveable through all its length, As the wind sways it, has yet well suffic'd, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent...that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, hut is content With slender notes, and more than half suppress'd. Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting... | |
| William Cowper - 1846 - 310 pages
...glade. The roof, though movable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well suffic'd,. And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent...thought The red-breast warbles still, but is content Whh slender notes, and more than harf suppress'd: ' . Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting- light... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...glade. The roof, though moveable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well sufficed, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent...is content With slender notes, and more than half suppress 'd : Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests... | |
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