 | John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 pages
...Slowly the sounds came back again — Now mixed, now one by one. " Sometimes, a-dropping from the sky, I heard the sky-lark sing; Sometimes all little birds...heavens be mute. " It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon — A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to... | |
 | Spiritualism - 1866 - 588 pages
...sweet sound, Then darted to the sun ; Slowly the sounds came back again, Now mixed, now one by one. And now 'twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely...heavens be mute. It ceased, yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon ; A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, Which to... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1866 - 108 pages
...Slowly the sounds came back again, Now mixed, now one by one. "Sometimes a-dropping from the sky I heard the sky-lark sing; Sometimes all little birds...to fill the sea and air With their sweet jargoning! But not by the souls of the men, nor by demons of earth or middle air, but by a blessed troop of angelic... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1866 - 484 pages
...the ear our rough, pithy English, in his verse, breathes all sounds, all melodies :— "And now'tis like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute; And...an angel's song, That makes the heavens be mute." But in ' Christabel/ which has some slight pretensions to be an intelligible narrative, or, at least,... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 340 pages
...men and angels might rejoice to hear; Even wondering Philomel forgot to sing, SINGING (continued).^ And now 'twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely...now it is an angel's song That makes the heavens be nrate. ST COLERIDGE. Her voice is hovering o'er my soul — it lingers O'ershadowing it with soft and... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1869 - 204 pages
...; Slowly the sounds came back again, Now mixed, now one by one. Sometimes a-dropping from the sky I heard the sky-lark sing ; Sometimes all little birds...heavens be mute. It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the... | |
 | Alfred Billings Street - Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) - 1869 - 268 pages
...outlet play its melodies in my ear, mingling with my dreams. Now it sounded a lute, now a trumpet. " And now 'twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely...is an angel's song, That makes the heavens be mute! " CHAPTER IV. MOUNT MAKCT. On the Trail to Tabawus. — The Ascent. — Tahawus. — The Sunset. —... | |
 | Francis Fisher Broune - 1869 - 486 pages
...verse our rugged but pithy and expressive English breathes all sounds, all melodies; — " And now 'tis like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute, And...an angel's song, That makes the heavens be mute." Let no one, then, underrate the importance of the study of words. Daniel Webster was often seen absorbed... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...Slowly the sounds came back again, Now mixed, now one by one. " Sometimes a-dropping from the sky I heard the sky-lark sing; Sometimes all little birds...heavens be mute. "It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the... | |
 | Alexander Ronald Grant - 1870 - 164 pages
...Slowly the sounds came back again, Now mixed, now one by one. Sometimes, a-dropping from the sky, I heard the skylark sing ; Sometimes all little birds...heavens be mute. It ceased — yet still the sails made on, A pleasant noise till noon, — A noise like of a hidden brook, In the happy month of June, That... | |
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It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune. 
