 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing; Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn,...softened strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit; As, musing slow, I hail Thy genial loved... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 362 pages
...Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat, With short shrill shriek flits on by leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn,...pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...Now air is hush'd, save where the wealf-ey'd bat, With short shrill shriek flits on by leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn,...pilgrim borne In heedless hum : Now teach me, maid compos'd, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit,... | |
 | Edwin Guest - English language - 1838 - 342 pages
...5. 4. Chorus. Hath rung night's yawning peal. Macbeth. The shard-iorne beetle with his drowsy hums Where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises mid the twilight path Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum. Collins. The Jura-cock hummd wi' lazy... | |
 | Scotland - 1839 - 894 pages
..."Now air is hush'd, save where, the weak-ey'd bat, With short shrill skriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn,...pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid compos d, To breathe some soften'd strain, tealing through thy - Now fades the glimmering landscape... | |
 | Jewel - 1839 - 352 pages
...Now air is hushed, save where the weak-ey'd bat, With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn,...pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Readers - 1839 - 322 pages
...shrill shriek, flits by on leathern wing ; Or where the beetle winds . His small but sullen horn, 4. As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against...me, maid composed, To breathe some softened strain, 5. Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit ; As,... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short, shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing,Or where the beetle winds' His small but sullen horn,...hum : Now teach me, maid composed, To' breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...th,e weak-eyed bat, With short, shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle wind* His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises midst the...hum : Now teach me, maid .composed, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale. May not unseemly with its stillness... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek, flits by on leathern wing, not sleep. On yonder cliffs, a grisly band, • I...join, And weave with bloody hands the tissue of thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit, As, musing slow, I hail Thy genial loved... | |
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O'erhang his wavy bed: Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises, 'midst the twilight path Against the pilgrim borne in heedless... 
