He is an evening reveller, who makes His life an infancy, and sings his fill ; At intervals, some bird from out the brakes, Starts into voice a moment, then is still. There seems a floating whisper on the hill, But that is fancy, for the starlight dews... The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Page 2931817Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 170 pages
...appear Precipitously stuep ; and drawing near, There breathes a living fragrance from the shore, Of flowers yet fresh with childhood, on the ear Drops...chirps the grasshopper one good-night carol more. LXXXVIJt. He is an evening reveller, who makes His life an infancy, and sings his fill ; At intervals,... | |
 | James Wright Simmons - 1826 - 136 pages
...appear Precipitously steep ; and drawing near, There breathes a living fragrance front tlte shore, Of flowers yet fresh with childhood; on the ear Drops...of the suspended oar, Or chirps the grasshopper one good night carol more. He is an evening reveller, who makes His life an infancy, and sings his fill;... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...There breathes a living fragrance from the shore, Of flowen yet fresh with childhood; on the ear Drop* , blue the sky Spreads like an ocean hung on high, Bespangled with good-nightcarol more; He is an evening-reveller, who makes His life an infancy, and sings his fill... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1827 - 888 pages
...Precipitously sleep; and, drawing near, There breathes a living fragrance from the shore« Of (lowers yet fresh with childhood; on the ear Drops the light...of the suspended oar. Or chirps the grasshopper one good-oight carol more ; LXXXVII. He is an evening reveller, who makes His life an infancy, and sings... | |
 | Thomas Loraine McKenney - 1827 - 536 pages
...of the loon is heard — but nothing sings, save in some places an occasional and stray warbler — "Some bird from out the brakes Starts into voice a moment, then is still" — and the mosquitoes. Now and then a duck is seen with her family of young ones — but these fly... | |
 | 1827 - 674 pages
...equally pregnant with moral instruction. On the other hand, the grasshopper is like many other mortals, " An evening reveller, who makes His life an infancy, and sings his fill." These, in the opinion of my friend, the learned William Spence, depend not on one instinct, but many... | |
 | John Barber - 1828 - 310 pages
...appear Precipitously steep; and drawing near, There breathes a living fragrance from the shore, Of flowers yet fresh with childhood; on the ear Drops...of the suspended oar, Or chirps the grasshopper one good night carol more; At intervals, some bird from out the brakes Starts into voice « moment, then... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1828 - 780 pages
...near, There breathe* a living fragrance from the shore, Of flowers yet fresh witb childhood ; on tbe ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar. Or chirps the grasshopper one good-nigbl carol more; LXXXV». He is an evening reveller, who makes His life an infancy, and sing«... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1828 - 780 pages
...a living fragrance from the shore, Of (lowers yet fresh with childhood; on the ear Drops the ligle drip of the suspended oar, Or chirps the grasshopper one good-night carol more; LXXXVII. He is an evening reveller, who make« His life an infancy, and sings his nil; At intervals,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 358 pages
...near. There breathes a living fragrance from the shore, Of flowers yet fresh with childhood; on the eat Drops the light drip of the suspended oar, Or chirps the grasshopper one good-night carol more ; LxZxvII. He is an evening reveller, who makes His life an infancy, and sings his fill; At intervals,... | |
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