 IT is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard ; It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whispered word ; And gentle winds, and waters near, Make music to the lonely ear. Each flower the dews have lightly wet, And...  Tom Cringle's Log - Page 245by Michael Scott - 1834 - 384 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 340 pages
...run ; And yet his steeds, with all his skill, Scarce lug the chariot down the hill. CHARLES COTTON. It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's...is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whispered word; And gentle winds, and waters near, Make music to the lonely ear. Each flower the dews... | |
 | 1868 - 598 pages
...nature, and the glowing majesty of the god of day. Byron in one or two passages seems to have felt this. It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard. It is interesting to contrast the tone and style of the old sonnet writers, with that of the modern race.... | |
 | William L. Robinson - 1868 - 208 pages
...Sh. 113 high2 note is heard2; it is the hour2 when* lovers' vows... seem2 sweet in every whispered word ; and gentle winds and waters near,... make music to the lonely ear*. — Byron Lord ! bow thine ear* to our2 prayer ! Zion spreadeth her hands for aid, and there2 is* neither... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Anthologies - 1869 - 526 pages
...take a long unmeasured tone, To mortal minstrelsy unknown. — Siege of Corinth. EASTERN TWILIGHT. IT is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's...is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whispered word ; And gentle winds, and waters near, Make music to the lonely ear. Each flower the dews... | |
 | West (U.S.) - 1885 - 686 pages
...the delightful valley of Trinidad, some five miles from Porto Praya. Upon my return, it being about the " hour when from the boughs the nightingale's high note is heard" (not that there were any nightingales on St. lago Island, gentlemen. 1 do not wish to deceive you.... | |
 | Richard S. Rhodes - American poetry - 1885 - 444 pages
...breast, Inhales your spirit from the frost- winged gale, And freer dreams of heaven. EVENING. LORD BYRON. It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note id heard; It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word; And gentle winds, and... | |
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - Art - 1886 - 366 pages
...the delicate firm touch of the master's hand. What a way of telling us that it is late evening ! ' It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's...is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whispered word ; And gentle winds and waters near Make music to the lonely ear. Each flower the dews... | |
 | Stendhal - 1887 - 454 pages
...finissant, toutes les cloches se mettent à sonner l'Angelus; le travail cesse et le plaisir commence. It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's...is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whispered Word ; And gentle winds, and waters near, Make music to thc loncly ear. • Each flower the... | |
 | Rhoda Broughton - 1887 - 476 pages
...were going to knock his tall head, past the stables, and through the oak woods, home. CHAPTER III. "It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's...is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whispered word — " As saith that most delicious of love poems that makes us all feel immoral as we... | |
 | Richard Rhodes - American poetry - 1887 - 426 pages
...of heaven. EVENING. LORD BYRON. It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note ia heard; It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper <1 word; And gentle winds, and waters near, Make music to the lonely ear. Each flower the dews... | |
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