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" The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half suppress'd ; Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendent drops of ice, That tinkle in the... "
Poems, by William Cowper, Esq: Together with His Posthumous Poetry, and a ... - Page 125
by William Cowper - 1841
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The Task, and Other Poems

William Cowper - 1831 - 192 pages
...glade. The roof, though moveablc through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well suffic'd, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent...is content With slender notes, and more than half suppressed: Pleas 'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he...
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The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never ...

William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...well sufficed, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The...is content With slender notes, and more than half suppressed ; Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spay, where'er he rests he...
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The Works of William Cowper: Table talk. The task. Tirocinium; or, A review ...

William Cowper - 1835 - 620 pages
...well sufficed, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The...With slender notes, and more than half suppress'd ; Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes From...
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The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and ...

William Cowper - 1836 - 416 pages
...the wind sways it, has yet well sufficed, And intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. 75 No noise is here, or none...With slender notes and more than half suppress'd. Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes 80 From...
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Translation from Madame de La Mothe-Guion. The task. Tirocinium. John Gilpin ...

William Cowper - 1836 - 402 pages
...the wind sways it, has yet well sufficed, And intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. 75 No noise is here, or none...With slender notes and more than half suppress'd. Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes 80 From...
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The Task: In Six Books

William Cowper - 1836 - 206 pages
...frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The red breast warbles still, but is content With slender notes,...light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendent drops of ice, Thai tinkle in the wither'd leaves helow. Stillness, accompanied...
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The Life and Works of William Cowper: Now First Completed by the ..., Volume 7

William Cowper - 1835 - 406 pages
...well sufficed, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The...With slender notes, and more than half suppress'd : Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes From...
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Life and works of William Cowper, Volume 7

William Cowper - 1836 - 710 pages
...well sufficed, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The...is content With slender notes, and more than half suppress'^; Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he...
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Poems ... To which is prefixed a memoir of the author, by John M'Diarmid ...

William Cowper - 1837 - 534 pages
...well suffic'd, And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The...light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendent drops of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness, accompanied...
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Lives of Sacred Poets, Volume 2

Robert Aris Willmott - 1838 - 400 pages
...moonbeam sliding softly in between The sleeping loaves. Of the red-breast, that, in winter-time, — Warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half suppressed ; Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light, From spray to spray, where'er he rests,...
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