 | England - 1838 - 884 pages
...sacred silence reigns around, Save the lone screech-owl's note, who builds his bower Amid the mouldering caverns dark and damp, Or the calm breeze, that rustles...flaunting ivy, that with mantle green Invests some wasted tower. Or let me tread Its neighbouring walk of pines, where mused of old The cloistered brothers :... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 pages
...light; While sullen sacred silence reigns around, Save the lone screech-owl's note, who builds his bow'r Amid the mould'ring caverns dark and damp, Or the...that with mantle green Invests some wasted tow'r. Or let me tread Its neighb'ring walk of pines, where mus'd of old The cloister'd brothers: through... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 326 pages
...silence reigns around, ' Save the lone screechowl's note, who builds his bovver Amid the mouldering caverns dark and damp, Or the calm breeze, that rustles...flaunting ivy, that with mantle green Invests some wasted tower. Or let me tread Its neighbouring walk of pines, where mused of old The cloister'd brothers ;... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1822 - 446 pages
...lone screech-owl's note, who builds his Amid the mouldering caverns dark and damp, Or the calm breezy, that rustles in the leaves Of flaunting ivy, that with mantle green Invests some wasted tower. Or let me tread Its neighbouring walk of pines, where mus'd of old The cloister'd brothers :... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...silence reigns around, [bower Save the lone screech-owl's note, who builds his Amid the mouldering caverns dark and damp, Or the calm breeze, that rustles...flaunting ivy, that with mantle green Invests some wasted tower. Or let me tread Its neighbouring walk of pines, where mused of old The cloister'd brothers :... | |
 | Scotland - 1838 - 938 pages
...note, who builds his bower Amid the mouldering caverns dark and damp, Or the calm breeie, that rustlei in the leaves Of flaunting ivy, that with mantle green Invests some waited tower. Or let me tread Its neighbouring walk of pines, where mused of old The cloistered brothers... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, William Collins, George Gilfillan, Thomas Warton - English literature - 1854 - 354 pages
...sacred silence reigns around, Save the lone screech-owl's note, who builds his bower Amid the mouldering caverns dark and damp, Or the calm breeze, that rustles...flaunting ivy, that with mantle green Invests some wasted tower. Or let me tread Its neighbouring walk of pines, where mused of old The cloister'd brothers :... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1883 - 596 pages
...; While sullen sacred silence reigns around, Save the lone screech-owl's note, who builds his bow'r Amid the mould'ring caverns dark and damp, Or the...that with mantle green Invests some wasted tow'r. Or let me tread Its neighb'ring walk of pines, where mused of old The cloister'd brothers : through... | |
 | American fiction - 1915 - 556 pages
...; While sullen sacred silence reigns around, Save the lone screech-owl's note, who builds his bow'r Amid the mould'ring caverns dark and damp, Or the...that with mantle green Invests some wasted tow'r. The similarity of some lines in the Elegy is too close to be dismissed as accidental, and the fact... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - English literature - 1893 - 232 pages
...While sullen sacred silence reigns around, Save the lone screech-owl's note,2 who builds his bow'r Amid the mould'ring caverns dark and damp, Or the...wasted tow'r." 1 Pope's Works, Vol. V., page 365. 2 The screech-owl was a stock figure in the " Literature of Melancholy." He also compares the artificiality... | |
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Where through some western window the pale moon Pours her long-levell'd rule of streaming light; While sullen sacred silence reigns around, Save the lone screech-owl's note, who builds his bow'r Amid the mould'ring caverns dark and damp, Or the calm breeze,... 
