 ... Most musical, most melancholy"* bird ! A melancholy bird? Oh! idle thought! In nature there is nothing melancholy. But some night-wandering man, whose heart was pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love,...  Woodnotes, for all seasons [an anthology]. - Seite 25von Wood-notes - 1842Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - 826 Seiten
...wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, — (And so, poor wretch, filled all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his...notes a melancholy strain ; And many a poet echoes the concoit.t And again in the same poem he says — Tis the merry nightingale, That crowds and hurries... | |
 | 1860 - 520 Seiten
...wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected lore, (And so, poor wretch ! filled all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his...these notes a melancholy strain.* And many a poet, STC continues, echoes the conceit — poet who hath been building up the rhyme, when he had better... | |
 | William Harrison ainsworth - 1860 - 516 Seiten
...wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch ! filled all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his...these notes a melancholy strain.* And many a poet, STC continues, echoes the conceit — poet who hath been building up the rhyme, when he had better... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1861 - 448 Seiten
...wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch ! filled all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his...building up the rhyme When he had better far have stretched his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By sun or moonlight to the influxes Of shapes... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 332 Seiten
...wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch ! filled all things with himself And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his...building up the rhyme When he had better far have stretched his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By sun or moon-light, to the influxes Of shapes... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 720 Seiten
...wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch ! filled all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his...And many a poet echoes the conceit ; Poet who hath boon building up the rhyme When he had better far have stretched his limbs Beside a brook in mossy... | |
 | David Grant - 1865 - 428 Seiten
...wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch ! filled all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his...building up the rhyme When he had better far have stretched his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By sun or moonlight, to the influxes Of shapes,... | |
 | English poetry - 1865 - 410 Seiten
...grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love (And so, poor wretch ! filled all things with himself And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his...building up the rhyme When he had better far have stretched his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By sun or moon-light to the influxes Surrendering... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 Seiten
...neglected love ; (And so, poor wretch ! fill'd all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds give back the tale Of his own sorrow ;) he, and such as...melancholy strain ; And many a poet echoes the conceit. We have learnt A different lore ; we may not thus profane Nature's sweet voices, always full of love... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 Seiten
...neglected love ; (And so, poor wretch! fill'd all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds give back the tale Of his own sorrow ;) he, and such as...melancholy strain; And many a poet echoes the conceit. We have learnt That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates, With fast thick warble, his delicious notes,... | |
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