 | 1836 - 296 pages
...and we listen to the music that proclaims his welcome. Gladly would we follow him still farther. " But hark ! from tower on tree-top high, The sentry...Shapes of moonlight ! flit and fade ! The hill-tops glenm in morning's spring, The sky-lark shakes his dappled wing, The day-glimpse glimmers on the lawn,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...The beetle guards our holy ground, He flies about the haunted place, And if mortal there be found, The leaf-harp sounds our roundelay, The owlet's eyes...Thus we sing, and dance, and play, Round the wild witeh-hazel tree. But, hark ! from tower on tree-top high, The sentry-elf his call has made : A streak... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 558 pages
...flies about the haunted place, And if mortal there be found, He hums in his ears and flaps his face ; The leaf-harp sounds our roundelay, The owlet's eyes...tree. But, hark! from tower on tree-top high, The sentry-elf his call has made : A streak is in the eastern sky, Shapes of moonlight ! flit and fade... | |
 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...flies about the haunted place, And if a mortal there be found, Ho hums in his care and flaps his face ; The leaf-harp sounds our roundelay, The owlet's eyes...witch-hazel tree. But hark ! from tower on tree-top high, A sentry elf his call has made, A streak shines in the eastern sky, Shapes of moonlight flit and fade... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...found, He hums in his eats and flaps his face) The leaf-harp sounds our roundelay, The owlet's eyes i or lanterns be ; Thus we sing, and dance, and play, Round the wild witrh-hazel tree. , But, hark ! from tower on tree-top high, The sentry-elf his call has made : A streak... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 808 pages
...burst*, the name is relighted, and there is a general jubilee on his return to the scenery of Crow Nest. But hark ! from tower on tree-top high. The sentry...eastern sky, Shapes of moonlight ! flit and fade ! The lull-tops gleam in morning's spring, The skylark shakes his dappled wing. The day-glimpse glimmers... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 816 pages
...his dappled wing, The day-glimpse glimmers on the lawn, The cock has crowed, and the Fays are gone. The sentry elf his call has made, A streak is in the eastern sky. The poems of Drake have not all been preserved. He wrote with great facility on the spur of the moment,... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 838 pages
...return to the scenery of Crow Nest. But hark ! from tower on tree-top high, The sentry elf his cnll has made, A streak is in the eastern sky, Shapes of moonlight I flit and fndc ! The hill-tops glenm in morning's spring, The skylark shakes his dappled wing, The... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 pages
...flies about the haunted place, And if mortal there be found, He hums in his ears and flaps his face ; The leaf-harp sounds our roundelay, The owlet's eyes...tree. But, hark ! from tower on tree-top high, The sentry-elf his call has made : A streak is in the eastern sky. Shapes of moonlight ! flit and fade... | |
 | Joseph Rodman Drake - American poetry - 1859 - 84 pages
...flies about the haunted place, And if mortal there be found, He hums in his ears and flaps his face; The leaf-harp sounds our roundelay, The owlet's eyes...tree. But, hark ! from tower on tree-top high, The sentry-elf his call has made: A streak is in the eastern sky, Shapes of moonlight! flit and fade! The... | |
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Round the wild witch-hazel tree. The beetle guards our holy ground, He flies about the haunted place, And if mortal there be found, He hums in his ears and flaps his face. 
