Sweet echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale Where the love-lorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well: Canst thou not tell me of a gentle pair... Recitations at Whitnash rectory - Page 8by Whitnash rectory - 1866 - 15 pagesFull view - About this book
| Mrs. Loudon (Jane) - 1850 - 628 pages
...Were slunk ; all but the wakeful Nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung." MILTON. " And in the violet-embroidered vale. Where the lovelorn...Nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well." MILTON. " 0 Nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou... | |
| 1861 - 378 pages
..." Sweet echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy dewy shell, fiy slow Meander's raargent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale, Where the...love-lorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song moaneth Well.'' • But though not equal to the nightingale, yet the song of the wren is not to be... | |
| George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...embroidered vnle, Where the love-lorn nighingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well ; Canst not tell me of a gentle pair That likest thy Narcissus are ? Oh if thou have Hid them in some flowery cave, Tell me but where, Sweet Queen of parly, daughter... | |
| Cam river - 1851 - 380 pages
...slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale, Where the love-lorn nightingale i Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well: Canst...me of a gentle pair That likest thy Narcissus are? 0 ! if thou have Hid them in some flowery cave, Tell me but where, Sweet queen of parley, daughter... | |
| Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...off. SOKG. Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that livest unseen 230 Within thy aery shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale...nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well : ' 235 219. A glistering gultrdian.] any slow, winding stream. The An allusion to Ps. xci. 11: 'He... | |
| Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pages
...Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent stream, And in the violet-embroidered vale, Where the lovelorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mounieth well,— Canst thou not tell me of a gentle pair That likcst thy Narcissus are ? O, if thou... | |
| George Hogarth - 1851 - 394 pages
...It is a sort of stiff and constrained chant, destitute of melody, and, except in the passage — " Where the love-lorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well," where there is a glimmering of feeling at the words " sad song," — it is equally destitute of expression.... | |
| 1868 - 376 pages
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