On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering Moon Biding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. The Oxford English prize essays - Page 262by Oxford univ, prize essays - 1836Full view - About this book
| British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth^shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Biding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way ; And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy... | |
| 1836 - 354 pages
...feelings and ideas which these images are, intrinsically f See Wordsworth's preface to Lyrical Ballads. s How completely must the poet have withdrawn his mind...the following lines : To behold the wand'ring moon Riding near her highest noon. Like one that had been led astray Thro' the heavens' wide pathless way... | |
| Henry Halford Vaughan - 1836 - 76 pages
...therefore be safely interchanged11. It is this latter faculty which gives descriptive poetry its S How completely must the poet have withdrawn his mind...the following lines : To behold the wand'ring moon Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Thro' the heavens wide pathless way... | |
| Lewis Tomlinson - 1840 - 362 pages
...country; such as makes melancholy have something of a pleasing turn, when we love to walk forth— To behold the wand'ring Moon, Biding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy... | |
| William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 pages
...among, I woo to hear thy ev'ning song ; And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth shaven green, To behold the wand'ring Moon, Biding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the Heav'ns' wide pathless way ; And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy... | |
| 1853 - 560 pages
...silently, and with how wan a face ! " brings to mind Milton's lines in "II Penseroso," " the wandering moon, Biding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way." And Shelley's exquisite fragment, THE WANING MOON. " And like... | |
| Eliza C. Lawton - 1854 - 60 pages
...is able to read the heavens, more scientifically and with scarcely less pleasure that the poet:— " To behold the wand'ring moon Biding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray, Through the heav'ns wide pathless way.' Were it only as a healthful exercise and discipline of the... | |
| Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 pages
...among, I woo to hear thy ev'ning song ; And missmg thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth shaven green, To behold the wand'ring moon, Biding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heav'n's wide pathless way ; And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy... | |
| Thomas Bulfinch - 1855 - 508 pages
...continual revolutions of the moon, which also suggested to Milton the same idea. " To behold the wandering moon Biding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray In the heaven's wide, pathless way." II Penseroso. 4. The Physical theory ; according to which the... | |
| 1856 - 408 pages
...among, I woo to hear thy ev: ning song : And missing thee I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wand'ring moon, Biding near her highest noon Like one that hath been led astray, Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping... | |
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