 The stars are on the moving stream, And fling, as its ripples gently flow, A burnished length of wavy beam In an eel-like, spiral line below; The winds are whist, and the owl is still; The bat in the shelvy rock is hid; And naught is heard on the lonely...  The Culprit Fay: And Other Poemsby Joseph Rodman Drake - 1835 - 84 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Ormond Wilson - Spellers - 1902 - 200 pages
...Copy: "lis the middle watch of a summer's night,— The earth is dark, but the heavens are bright; The winds are whist, and the owl is still; The bat...katydid, And the plaint of the wailing whip-poor-will. 112—The Ant —Drake. Dictation.—The fighting ants would starve to death if they did not have slaves.... | |
 | Frederick Brigham De Berard - Literature - 1902 - 422 pages
...the gathering tempest's rack. 11 The stars are on the moving stream, And fling, as its ripples gently flow, A burnished length of wavy beam In an eel-like,...owl is still, The bat in the shelvy rock is hid, And nought is heard on the lonely hill But the cricket's chirp and the answer shrill Of the gauze-winged... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 726 pages
...distinguish it from that baser alloy upon which we have descanted. We give them without farther comment. The winds are whist, and the owl is still The bat in the shelvy rock it hid And naught is heard on the lonely hill But the cricket's chirp and the answer shrill Of the... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - English poetry - 1904 - 618 pages
...the gathering tempest's rack. The stars are on the moving stream, And fling, as its ripples gently flow, A burnished length of wavy beam In an eel-like,...the cricket's chirp, and the answer shrill Of the gauze- winged katydid ; And the plaint of the wailing whippoorwill, Who moans unseen, and ceaseless... | |
 | English poetry - 1904 - 542 pages
...the gathering tempest's rack. The stars are on the moving stream, And fling, as its ripples gently flow, A burnished length of wavy beam In an eel-like,...in the shelvy rock is hid ; And naught is heard on tfie lonely hill But the cricket's chirp, and the answer shrill Of the gauze-winged katydid; And the... | |
 | John Raymond Howard - American poetry - 1905 - 340 pages
...the gathering tempest's rack. The stars are on the moving stream, And fling, as its ripples gently flow, A burnished length of wavy beam In an eel-like,...; And the plaint of the wailing whippoorwill, Who moans unseen, and ceaseless sings Ever a note of wail and woe, Till morning spreads her rosy wings,... | |
 | John Raymond Howard - American poetry - 1905 - 350 pages
...the gathering tempest's rack. The stars are on the moving stream, And fling, as its ripples gently flow, A burnished length of wavy beam In an eel-like,...katydid; And the plaint of the wailing whippoorwill, Ever a note of wail and woe, Till morning spreads her rosy wings, And earth and sky in her glances... | |
 | Charles Wesley Emerson - 1905 - 138 pages
...the gathering tempest's rack. n. The stars are on the moving stream, And fling, as its ripples gently flow, A burnished length of wavy beam In an eel-like,...hill But the cricket's chirp, and the answer shrill Who moans unseen, and ceaseless sings, Ever a note of wail and woe, Till the morning spreads her rosy... | |
 | Frederick Brigham De Berard - Literature - 1905 - 330 pages
...the gathering tempest's rack. II The stars are on the moving stream, And fling, as its ripples gently flow, A burnished length of wavy beam In an eel-like,...owl is still, The bat in the shelvy rock is hid, And nought is heard on the lonely hill But the cricket's chirp and the answer shrill Of the gauze-winged... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - American literature - 1906 - 324 pages
...Coleridge's " Christabel," published three years before—was something new in American poetry : " The winds are whist and the owl is still, The bat...And the plaint of the wailing whip-poor-will, Who moans unseen, and ceaseless sings Ever a note of wail and woe, Till morning spreads her rosy wings,... | |
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