 Bird of wakeful glow, Whose louder song is like the voice of life, Triumphant o'er death's image; but whose deep, Low, lovelier note is like a gentle wife, A poor, a pensive, yet a happy one, Stealing, when daylight's common tasks are done, An hour for...  Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries: With Recollections of the Author ... - Seite 89von Leigh Hunt - 1828 - 450 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1818 - 574 Seiten
...Whose louder song is like the voice of life Triumphant o'er death's image, but whose deep Low, lovelier note is like a gentle wife, A poor, a pensive, yet...low, While her tired husband and her children sleep.' — px Our next extract shall be of a different nature, and one perhaps which will be more generally... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1818 - 304 Seiten
...louder song is like the voice of life, Triumphant o'er death's image ; but whose deep, Low, lovelier note is like a gentle wife, A poor, a pensive, yet...low, While her tired husband and her children sleep. Then, there the Hamadryads are, their sisters, Simpler crown twisters, Who of one favourite tree, in... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1832 - 438 Seiten
...louder song is like the voice of life, Triumphant o'er death's image ; but whose deep, Low, lovelier note is like a gentle wife, A poor, a pensive, yet...low, While her tired husband and her children sleep.* * This passage respecting the nightingale is not altogether " in keeping, " (to use a painter's phrase),... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1832 - 448 Seiten
...louder song is like the voice of life, Triumphant o'er death's image ; but whose deep, Low, lovelier note is like a gentle wife, A poor, a pensive, yet...low, While her tired husband and her children sleep.* * This passage respecting the nightingale is not altogether " in keeping, '' (to use a painter's phrase),... | |
 | 1839 - 382 Seiten
...louder song is like the voice of life, Triumphant o'er death's image; but whose deep, Low, lovelier note is like a gentle wife, A poor, a pensive, yet...low, While her tired husband and her children sleep. LEIGH HUNT. The Dryads. EARTH. O EARTH, how like to Heaven, if not preferr'd More justly, seat worthier... | |
 | 1839 - 398 Seiten
...louder song is like the voice of life, Triumphant o'er death's image ; but whose deep, Low, lovelier note is like a gentle wife, A poor, a pensive, yet...low, While her tired husband and her children sleep. LEIGH HOST. The Dryads. EARTH. O EARTH, how like to Heaven, if not preferr'd More justly, seat worthier... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1845 - 520 Seiten
...plaintive voice of the ring-dove, coming up from the inmost heart of the shaded forest, " Whoso deep, low note, is like a gentle wife, A poor, a pensive, yet...for mother's work ; and singing low, While her tired hushand and her children sleep." In the stillness of Nature there is ever something sacred; for she... | |
 | 1846 - 436 Seiten
...louder song is like the voice of life, Triumphant o'er death's image, but whose deep, Low, lovelier note is like a gentle wife, A poor, a pensive, yet...low While her tired husband and her children sleep. MAN. — Herbert. MY God, I heard this day, That none doth build a stately habitation, But he that... | |
 | 1846 - 302 Seiten
...wife, A poor, a pensive, yet a happy one, Stealing, whendaylight's common tasks arc done, An hourfor mother's work ; and singing low, "While her tired husband and her children sleep." In the stillness of Nature there is ever something sacred; for she pleadeth tenderly with man that... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1849 - 298 Seiten
...plaintive voice of the ring-dove, coming up from the inmost heart of the shaded forest, " Whose deep, low note, is like a gentle wife, A poor, a pensive, yet...low, While her tired husband and her children sleep." In the stillness of Nature there is ever something sacred ; for she pleadeth tenderly with man that... | |
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