| Women - 1807 - 514 pages
...voice was ever heard In spring-lime from the Cuckoo bird, Breaking the silence of the seas, Amongst the farthest Hebrides. Will no one tell me what she sings ? Perhaps the plaintive numbers How For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago : Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1807 - 258 pages
...the poem see Author's Note (p. 162) and Editor's Note thereon. In 1827 11. 9-13 were rehandled : " No Nightingale did ever chaunt More welcome notes to weary bands Of Travellers * * * * ****** Such thrilling voice was never heard " etc. — and in 1836 1. 13 was again altered... | |
| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 372 pages
...to reposing bands Of Travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian Sands : No sweeter voice was ever heard In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, Breaking...the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides, i 4 Will no one tell me what she sings ? Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off... | |
| William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 pages
...strain; 0 listen ' for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. No Nightingale did ever cliaunt More welcome notes to weary bands Of Travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian Sands: Such thrilling voice was never heard In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the... | |
| Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - American periodicals - 1839 - 540 pages
...; O, listen ! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. *, No Nightingale did ever chant More welcome notes to weary bands Of travellers in...Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, fa r-off things, And battles long ago : Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day ?... | |
| Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - Bibliography - 1839 - 554 pages
...profound la overflowing with the sound. No Nightingale did ever chant More welcome notes to weary banda Of travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands...Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, fa r-off things, And battles long ago : Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day ]... | |
| 1839 - 538 pages
...strain ; O, listen ! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. No Nightingale did ever chant More welcome notes to weary bands Of travellers in...farthest Hebrides. Will no one tell me what she sings 1 — Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago : Or... | |
| Priscilla Maden Watts - 1839 - 286 pages
...grain, And sings a melancholy strain ; O listen ! for the vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. No nightingale did ever chaunt More welcome notes...travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands ; Such thrilling voice was never heard In spring-time from the cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of... | |
| English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...strain ; Oh listen ! for the vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. No nightingale did ever chant More welcome notes to weary bands Of travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands : Such thrilling voice was never heard In springtime from the cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of... | |
| William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...grain, And sings a melancholy strain ; О listen ! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. No Nightingale did ever chaunt More welcome notes...farthest Hebrides. Will no one tell me what she sings Í — Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off tilings, And battles long ago :... | |
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