| William Wordsworth - 1857 - 480 pages
...therefore, was it rightly said That Ossian, last of all his race ! Lies buried in this lonely place. THE SOLITARY REAPER.* BEHOLD her, single in the field,...did ever chaunt More welcome notes to weary bands t Of travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands : A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard J In... | |
| Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 pages
...unintelligible sounds, — a tribute in strains as musical as the music they celebrated : — • " Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland...herself: Stop here, or gently pass. Alone she cuts and hinds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain. Oh, listen ! for the vale profound Is overflowing with... | |
| Allen Hayden Weld - 1860 - 136 pages
...and they were deeply interested in his questions and replies. THE SOLITAEY EEAPEE.—[WOEDSWOETH.] Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland...gently pass ! Alone she cuts and binds the grain, 5 And sings a melancholy strain; O listen! for the vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. 1 Eulo... | |
| Henry Reed - 1860 - 336 pages
...music they celebrated : — " Behold her, single in the field, Ton solitary Highland lass, Heaping and singing by herself: Stop here, or gently pass....and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain. Oh, listen ! for the vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. " No nightingale did ever channt... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pages
...cabin small, The lake, 'the bay, the waterfall; And Thee, the spirit of them all! W. Wordsworth CCL THE REAPER Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary...the vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. No sweeter voice was ever heard In spring-time from the cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 pages
...do now, the cabin small, The lake, the bay, the waterfall ; And thee, the spirit of them all ! XIX. THE SOLITARY REAPER. BEHOLD her, single in the field,...and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain. Oh listen ! for the vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. No nightingale did ever chant So sweetly... | |
| Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...; He lost in errors his vain heart prefers, She safe in the simplicity of her'a. COWPER. Leaper. . BEHOLD her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland...and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain ; 0 listen ! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. No nightingale did ever chaunt More... | |
| Popular poetry - 1862 - 246 pages
...behind us ! Moore. THE REAPER. BEHOLD her single in the field, Yon solitary Highland lass ; Beaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass...travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands : No sweeter voice was ever heard In spring-time from the cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the... | |
| 1863 - 438 pages
...small, The lake, the bay, the waterfall ; And Thee, the spirit of them all ! W. Wordsworth CCL THE REAPER BEHOLD her, single in the field, Yon solitary...travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands : No sweeter voice was ever heard In spring-time from the cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the... | |
| James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 264 pages
...flow To join the brimming river, For men may come, and men may go, But I go on for ever. Tennyson. THE REAPER. BEHOLD her, single in the field, Yon solitary...herself; Stop here, or gently pass! Alone she cuts and bmds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; Oh, listen! for the vale profound Is overflowing with... | |
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