 | John Milton, Thomas Keightley - 1859 - 492 páginas
...weleome thee, and wish thee long. SOXNET II. [I.] TO THE NIGHTINGALE. O NIGHTINGALE, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hopes the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly Hours lead on propitious May. Thy liquid notes,... | |
 | John Webster, Alexander Dyce - 1859 - 424 páginas
...to heftr the cuckoo sing before tho nightingale was supposed not to prosper ill his love-affairs : "Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day, First heard before tho shallow cuckoo's bill, Portend success in love : O, if Jove's will Have link'd that amorous power... | |
 | S. R. - 1860 - 306 páginas
...of art Could compass such another ? TO THE NIGHTINGALE. ffltltnn. 0 NIGHTINGALE, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still,...the shallow cuckoo's bill, Portend success in love : 0, if Jove's will Have linked that amorous power to thy soft lay, Now timely sing ere the rude bird... | |
 | William Harrison ainsworth - 1860 - 516 páginas
...that shall be from the sonnet expressly addressed to her, beginning, 0 Nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still...propitious May. Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day . . . Portend success in love.§ All the excerpts we have given from Milton, be it observed in passing,... | |
 | William Allingham - 1860 - 316 páginas
...NIGHTINGALE, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hopes the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May. The liquid notes that close the eye of day, First heard before the shallow cuckoo's bill, Portend success... | |
 | John Milton, James Montgomery - 1861 - 548 páginas
...old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain. 1 0 if miiTiNGALE, that on yonblooming spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still...fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the j oily hours lead on propitious May. ^ Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day, First heard beforethe... | |
 | John Milton - 1861 - 534 páginas
...give, And I with thee will choose to live. I. TO THE NIGHTINGALE. 0 NIGHTINGALE, that on yonblooming spray "Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still...fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the j oily hours lead on propitious May. ^ Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day, .? ~H First heard... | |
 | John Timbs - 1861 - 348 páginas
...the cuckoo, when first heard, utters its call. Milton says, in his sonnet to the nightingale : — Thy liquid notes, that close the eye of day. First...the shallow cuckoo's bill, Portend success in love. and rcassume their proper form when they cease to be heard. This belief must have prevailed in Sweden,... | |
 | Gordon Willoughby James Gyll - 1862 - 350 páginas
...1637j with that enchanting sonnet to Philomela,* commencing: — Oh, nightingale, that from yon bloomy spray, Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart doth fill. Who does not love Horton and all about it ? For ever sacred be the place that has part in... | |
 | Charles Alexander Johns - 1862 - 676 páginas
...amendid be The nexte Male, if I be not afraied." More recently Milton thus addresses the Nightingale : " Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day, First heard before the shallow Cuccoo's bill, Portend success in love." Whether any traces of this popular belief yet linger in our... | |
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O NIGHTINGALE that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May. 
