 TO one who has been long in city pent, 'Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament. Who is more happy, when, with heart's content, Fatigued he sinks into some pleasant...  The Sportsman - Sida 3291869Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1914 - 256 sidor
...the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe a prayer . Full in the smile of the blue firmament. Of wavy grass, and reads a debonair And gentle tale of love and languishment? Returning home at evening, with an ear Catching the notes of Philomel, — an eye Watching the sailing... | |
 | Walter Barnes - 1915 - 602 sidor
...the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament. Who is more happy, when, with heart's content, Fatigued...grass, and reads a debonair And gentle tale of love and lauguishment ? Returning home at evening, with an ear Catching the notes of Philomel, — an eye Watching... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 952 sidor
...— to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament. Who is more happy, when, with hearts ifflin company Returning home at evening, with an ear Catching the notes of Philomel, — an eye Watching the sailing... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 854 sidor
...a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament. Who is more happy, when, with heart's content, 5 / Returning home at evening, with an ear Catching the notes of Philomel,1 -^an eye 10 Watching the sailing... | |
 | LAURA E. LOCKWOOD, Ph.D - 1916 - 140 sidor
...the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament. Who is more happy, when, with heart's content, Fatigued...debonair And gentle tale of love and languishment? Returning home at evening, with an ear Catching the notes of Philomel, — an eye Watching the sailing... | |
 | Robert Bridges - 1916 - 368 sidor
...the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament. Who is more happy, when, with heart's content, Fatigued...debonair And gentle tale of love and languishment ? 175 Watching the sailing cloudlet's bright career, He mourns that day so soon has glided by, E'en... | |
 | Laura Emma Lockwood - 1916 - 136 sidor
...the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament. Who is more happy, when, with heart's content, Fatigued...debonair And gentle tale of love and languishment? Returning home at evening, with an ear Catching the notes of Philomel, — an eye Watching the sailing... | |
 | Gerald B. Kauvar - 1969 - 248 sidor
...heart's content, Fatigued he sinks into some pleasant lair 1 See, for example, Perkins, pp. 287-8 p. 287, Of wavy grass, and reads a debonair And gentle tale of love and languishment. (lines 5-8) After listening to a nightingale and Watching the sailing cloudlet's bright career, He... | |
 | Walter Jackson Bate - 2009 - 784 sidor
...into the fair And open face of heaven,— to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament. Who is more happy, when, with heart's content, Fatigued...debonair And gentle tale of love and languishment? Returning home at evening, with an ear Catching the notes of Philomel,— an eye Watching the sailing... | |
 | David Bromwich - 1987 - 320 sidor
...an abstract idea of freedom by regarding the city's life from one of its suburbs. There he settles "into some pleasant lair / Of wavy grass, and reads a debonair / And gentle tale of love"; all for the sake of later regretting the passage of a day, which "so soon has glided by: / E'en like... | |
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