 | William Wordsworth - 1890 - 100 pages
...clouds, And pours forth streams more sweet than Castaly. TO SLEEP. FLOCK of sheep that leisurely pass by. One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky; I have thought of all by... | |
 | William Hamilton Gibson - 1890 - 212 pages
...poet was that, I mused, who lamented from his troubled pillow : "A Hock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one ; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring ; the fall of rivers, winds, and seas ; Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky : I've thought of all... | |
 | 1890 - 398 pages
...to sleep. Wordsworth thus describes a trial and failure : " ' A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by, One after one ; the sound of rain and bees Murmuring ; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky ; I've thought of all by... | |
 | 1890 - 878 pages
...occasional inadequacy, recounts them in the following lines : " A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one ; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring ; the fall of rivers, winds, and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky ; I've thought of all by... | |
 | Charles Loomis Dana - 1892 - 550 pages
...keeping before the fancy some blank or wearying picture — " A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one ; the sound of rain and bees Murmuring ; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sides." Mechanical remedies... | |
 | Charles Loomis Dana - 1892 - 568 pages
...keeping before the fancy some blank or wearying picture — " A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one ; the sound of rain and bees Murmuring ; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure skies." Mechanical remedies... | |
 | 1893 - 672 pages
...Wordsworth gives as ineffectual in his sonnet on " Sleeplessness." "A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain and bees Murmuring: the fall of rivers, winds and seas. Smooth nelds. white sheets of water, and pure sky: I've thought of all by turns,... | |
 | Calendar - 1893 - 414 pages
...under covert of the wormy ground ! From The Excursion. SONNET A KLOCK of sheep that leisurely pass by, One after one ; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring ; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky ; I thought of all by turns,... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond - 1894 - 408 pages
...rhyme-order of the second type was abba ab ba £ dcdcd ; eg : A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by, One after one ; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring ; the fall of rivers, winds and seas Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky ; By turns have all been... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond - 1894 - 394 pages
...sends a cheerful hour, refrains. — To Cyriack Skinner : Milton. A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by, One after one ; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring ; the fall of rivers, winds and seas Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky ; By turns have all been... | |
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SLEEP A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by, One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas. Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky; I have thought of all by turns, and yet do lie Sleepless! and... 
