 But cawing rooks, and kites that swim sublime In still repeated circles, screaming loud, The jay, the pie, and e'en the boding owl, That hails the rising moon, have charms for me.  The Book of Nature - Page 263by John Mason Good - 1831 - 467 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Goodloe Harper Bell - American literature - 1900 - 620 pages
...and one The livelong night : nor these alone, whose notes Nice-fingered art must emulate in vain, But cawing rooks, and kites that swim sublime In still...repeated circles, screaming loud ; The jay, the pie, and even the boding owl That hails the rising moon, have charms for me. Sounds inharmonious in themselves,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1900 - 346 pages
...one 200 The livelong night : nor these alone, whose notes Nice-fingered art must emulate in vain, But cawing rooks, and kites that swim sublime In still...repeated circles, screaming loud ; The jay, the pie, and even the boding owl 205 That hails the rising moon, have charms for me. Sounds inharmonious in themselves... | |
 | Poetry - 1901 - 106 pages
...Nice-fingered Art must emulate in vain, But cawing rooks, and kites that swim sublime In still-repeated circles, screaming loud, The jay, the pie, and e'en...hails the rising moon, have charms for me, Sounds inharmoniotis in themselves and harsh, Yet heard in scenes where peace for ever reigns, And only there,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1901 - 200 pages
...rooks, and kites that swim sublime In still repeated circles, screaming loud, The jay, the pie, and even the boding owl That hails the rising moon, have charms...for me. Sounds inharmonious in themselves and harsh, Tet heard in scenes where peace for ever reigns, And only there, please highly for their sake. Peace... | |
 | Leland Ossian Howard - Insects - 1901 - 646 pages
...association of ideas which produces the pleasing effect. Cowper expressed it perfectly when he wrote : " Sounds inharmonious in themselves and harsh, Yet, heard in scenes where peace forever reigns, And only there, please highly for their sake." The name cricket comes from this sound,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1903 - 814 pages
...was out of hearing, " let old Jack alone ; I'll warrant he'll give him his own ! " THE ROOKERY. " But cawing rooks, and kites that swim sublime In still...owl That hails the rising moon, have charms for me." COWPER. IN a grove of tall oaks and beeches, that crowns a terracewalk just on the skirts of the garden,... | |
 | Indiana. Department of Geology and Natural Resources - Botany - 1903 - 1244 pages
...misfortune. The former idea prevails, however, and Cowper expresses the common belief that the — " 'Sounds inharmonious in themselves and harsh. Yet heard in scenes where peace forever reigns, And only there, please highly for their sake.' "The house cricket usually occurs on... | |
 | Washington Irving - Fur trade - 1904 - 744 pages
...radical was out of hearing, "let old Jack alone; I'll warrant he'll give him his own!" THE ROOKERY "But cawing rooks, and kites that swim sublime In still...owl, That hails the rising moon, have charms for me." —COWPEE IN a grove of tall oaks and beeches, that crowns a terracewalk, just on the skirts of the... | |
 | English poetry - 1904 - 1014 pages
...and one The livelong night: nor these alone, whose notes Nice-fingered Art must emulate in vain, But cawing rooks, and kites that swim sublime In still...repeated circles, screaming loud, The jay, the pie, and ev'n the boding owl, That hails the rising moon, have charms for men. Sounds inharmonious in themselves... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1904 - 310 pages
...ornithological orchestra. " Nor these alone whose notes Nice-fingered art must emulate in vain, But cawing rooks, and kites that swim sublime In still...repeated circles, screaming loud, The jay, the pie, and even the boding owl, That hails the rising moon, have charms for me," says Cowper. " I never hear,"... | |
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