 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1851 - 282 pages
...Singing of Mount Abora. That is but one note of a music ever sweet, yet never cloying. It ceas'd ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till...brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woodt all night Singeth a quiet tune. The stanzas of the poem from which this extract is made (The... | |
 | Robert Fergusson, Alexander Balloch Grosart - English poetry - 1851 - 456 pages
...His voice is not of Ocean " with all its solemn noise." He should be rather described by Coleridge's -hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune ; " or by Wordsworth's " Violet by a mossy stone Half hidden to the eye." And now Robert Fergusson... | |
 | January Searle - Lincolnshire (England) - 1851 - 226 pages
...and his merry men chased the king's deer, and reposed under the " greenwood tree," listening to " the hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune." The forest-land extends from Nottingham to the vicinity of Worksop, being twenty-five miles in length,... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1851 - 190 pages
...water that was no doubt running somewhere at no great distance. The sound was soothing. ' The noise as of a hidden brook, In the leafy month of June, That to the silent woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.' The sides of the quarry were of many colours. In one... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 1070 pages
...does not the heart thrill with the aerial melody, and serene loveliness, of these so simple lines ? 1 It ceased ; yet still the sails made on, A pleasant...A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month (if June, That to the sleeping woods all nl^lit Singcth a quiet tune.' But we can particularise its... | |
 | George Anderson (of Glasgow.) - 1852 - 106 pages
...sound of rustling leaves and falling waters sinks upon his ear with a gentle cadence — " A noise as of a hidden brook " In the leafy month of June, "...sleeping woods, all night, " Singeth a quiet tune ; " or by the clear and pebbly river, where the spotted trout leaps at the mayfly, and where the broken... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 712 pages
...the sea and air "With their sweet jargoning ! And now 'twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute ; And now it is an angel's song, That makes(...the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune. Under the keel nine fathom deep, From the land of mist and s&ow, The spirit slid : and it was he That... | |
 | Hendrik Roelof Rookmaaker - Poetry - 1984 - 232 pages
...version). A similar suggestion is carried by the lines in which he describes the motion of the ship, Till noon we quietly sailed on,/ Yet never a breeze did breathe' (11.373-374). The mariner sees a life in nature, but he does not feel it. The ship is sailing so there... | |
 | James B. Twitchell - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 236 pages
..."Coleridge's Revision of The Ancient Mariner," Studies in Philology 2q (1932): 90. 1 798 — text retained It ceased: yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.... | |
 | Eugene O'Neill - Drama - 1988 - 458 pages
...the sea and air With their sweet jargoning! And now 't was like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute; And now it is an angel's song, That makes the heavens be mute. The music finally seems to proceed from the sails — the wings. It ceased; yet still the sails made... | |
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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. 
