 Cuckoo-bird Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. Will no one tell me what she sings? — Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter...  The Student's Treasury of English Song ... - Pagina 498door William Henry Davenport Adams - 1873Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Dawn - 1874 - 340 pagina’s
...plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago : Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day ? Some natural...work, And o'er the sickle bending; — I listened— motionless and still ; And as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1874 - 96 pagina’s
...plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago ; 20 Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day ; Some natural...may be again ? Whate'er the theme, the maiden sang 25 As if her song could have no ending. l saw her singing at her work, And o'er the sickle bending.... | |
 | Dorothy Wordsworth - 1874 - 396 pagina’s
...plaintive numbers flow For old unhappy far-off things, And battles long ago ;• — Or is it some more humble lay — Familiar matter of to-day — Some...and may be again ? Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sung As if her song could have no ending ; I saw her singing at her work, And o'er the sickle bending... | |
 | Dorothy Wordsworth - 1874 - 378 pagina’s
...natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again ? Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sung As if her song could have no ending ; I saw her singing at her work, And o'er the sickle bending ; I listen'd till I had my fill, And as I mounted up the hill The music in my heart I bore Long after it... | |
 | T. LINDSEY ASPLAND - 1874 - 492 pagina’s
...plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago : Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day ? Some natural...sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again ! 1 saw her singing at her work, And o'er the sickle bending ; — I listen'd till I had my fill: And,... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1874 - 364 pagina’s
...we hear their voices ringing through the olive-groves or macchi, that they are chanting " Some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day, — Some natural...sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again ; " or else, since their melodies are by no means uniformly sad, some ditty of the joyousness of spring-time... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1875 - 168 pagina’s
...plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago : 20 Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day ? Some natural...may be again ? Whate'er the theme, the maiden sang . 25 As if her song could have no ending ; I saw her singing at her work, And o'er the sickle bending... | |
 | Edward Austin Sheldon - 1875 - 444 pagina’s
...plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago ; Or, is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day ? Some natural...sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again. 4. Whate'er the theme, the maiden sung As if her song could have no ending ; I saw her singing at her... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 pagina’s
...plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy. far-oil' things, And battles long ago : Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day ? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be ngnin. Whate'er the theme, the maiden sang As if her song could have no ending : 1 saw her singing... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1875 - 728 pagina’s
...or pain, That has been, and may be again I Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang As if her song conld have no ending; I saw her singing at her work, And o'er the sickle bending; — I listen'd, motionless and still ; And, as I mounted up the hill. The music In my heart I bore, Long... | |
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