 Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to...  Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets - Sida 282efter William Howitt - 1847Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 248 sidor
...drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath these rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap PJach... | |
 | Class-book - 1852 - 152 sidor
...drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,... | |
 | William Ware - 1852 - 170 sidor
...drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her...secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign." And, in the words of Bryant : "Forme, I lie Languidly in the shade, where the thick turf, Yet virgin... | |
 | William Ware - 1852 - 162 sidor
...drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her...secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign." And, in the words of Bryant: "For me, I lie Languidly in the shade, where the thick turf, Yet virgin... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1852 - 470 sidor
...drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,... | |
 | 1852 - 460 sidor
...drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,... | |
 | Year - 1853 - 260 sidor
...Hear the poet," said Mr. Gray : — " ' Save when, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl doth to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her...secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.' " He owned, however, that he agreed with Charles, and thought the owl anything but a melancholy bird.... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 sidor
...drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath these rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,... | |
 | 1853 - 560 sidor
...drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 sidor
...drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Gray. It was an evening bright and still, As ever blushed on wave or bower, Smiling from heaven, as... | |
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