 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 - Pagina 277door William Cowper - 1828 - 427 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Cowper - 1800 - 438 pagina’s
...glade. The roof, though moveable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well sufEc'd, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent...twig the pendent drops of ice, That tinkle in the wither' d leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silence. Meditation... | |
 | 1802 - 302 pagina’s
...well suffic'd, ' ' intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. 73 No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The...but is content With slender notes,, and more than hall' suppreso'd : Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pagina’s
...ghde. Tbe roof, though moveafalc 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 Cowper - 1806 - 234 pagina’s
...glade. The rcof, 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, wherever he rests he... | |
 | William Cowper - 1808 - 338 pagina’s
.....4-.„* The roof, though movahle through all it's lengthAs the wind sways it, has yet well suffic'd, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent...No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redhreast warhles still, hut is content With slender notes, and more than half suppress'd: Pleas'd... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 494 pagina’s
...The roof, though mov'able through all it's length i • As the wind sways it, has yet well suffic'd, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent...With slender notes, and more than half suppress'd: Pleas 'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes From... | |
 | William Cowper - 1811 - 228 pagina’s
...glade. The roof, though moveable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well suffic'cly And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent...is content With slender notes, and more than half suppress'ii: Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 pagina’s
...may compare their manner of introducing the same picturesque object in the following passages : *' The red.breast warbles still, but is content With...with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to (pray, where'er he rests, he shakes From many a twig the pendent drops of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd... | |
 | 1801 - 454 pagina’s
...Witt slender notes, and more than half suppres't: Pleas'd with his solitude ; and flitting light f From spray to spray, where'er he rests he, shakes...of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. p »«•«*****».. » ^ -Rills that slip , Upon loose pebbles, lose themselvs at length In matted... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1811 - 510 pagina’s
...tcr walks have made those remarks on the same bird which dictated to Cowper the following lines: — The red-breast warbles still, but is content With...suppress'd. Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light 1'rom spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendant drops of ice, That tinkle... | |
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