 | Garland - 1836 - 246 pages
...cold desire. JOHN MILTON, Bern 1608, died 1674. TO THE NIGHTINGALE. O NIGHTINGALE I that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still ; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly Hours lead on propitious May. Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day,... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...Warton. 17 liaiik] \. e. spare. Warton. SONNETS. 1. TO THE NIGHTINGALE. O NIGHTINGALE, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May. Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day,... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1839 - 414 pages
...observing the interest taken in it by his high-born companion. " Oh ! nightingale, that from yon bloomy spray, Warblest at eve when all the woods are still...fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May." " Delightful !" said the ladies ; " but pray, Langston, don't let your suggestion drop. Give us some... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1839 - 1084 pages
...taken in it by his high-born companion. " Ob ! nightingale, that from yon bloomy spray, Warblest at ere when all the woods are still ; Thou with fresh hope...fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May." " Delightful !~ said the ladies ; " but pray, Langston, don't let your suggestion drop. Give us some... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...Warton. i7 bauk] ie spare. Warton. SONNETS. L TO THE NIGHTINGALE. O NIGHTINGALE, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May. Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day,... | |
 | 1840 - 652 pages
...W. HORSLEY, Mus. Bac. (Alto, 2 Tenors, and Bass.) O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblcst at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly Hours lead on propitious May. Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day,... | |
 | A Montagu Woodford - 1841 - 320 pages
...death, on Sunday the 8th of November, 1674. TO THE NIGHTINGALE. O, NIGHTINGALE, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly Hours lead on propitious May. Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day,... | |
 | 1842 - 294 pages
...implore. I _. . - — WOODNOTES. 21 TO THE NIGHTINGALE. f&iltan. O NIGHTINGALE, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still ; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly Hours lead on propitious May, Thy liquid notes, that close the eye of day,... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...pleasures, Melancholy, give, And I with thee will choose to live. O NIGHTINGALE, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still ; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May. ) Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day,... | |
 | 1850 - 638 pages
...till it smiles ;" Milton loved it ; witness his sonnet beginning, Oh, nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still...lover's heart doth fill, While the jolly hours lead in propitious May. We can scarcely wonder at the popular superstition to which allusion is here made,... | |
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O NIGHTINGALE that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May. 
