 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1843 - 260 pagine
...the cock hath sung beneath the thatch Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay : Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. SECOND SONG. TO THE SAME. THY tuwhits are lull'd I wot, Thy tuwhoos of yesternight, Which upon the... | |
 | 1844 - 836 pagine
...sufficiently characterized by its first and last line — "When cats run home, and light is come, — Alone and warming his five wits The white owl in the belfry sits." To the second, we should render injustice, did we copy less than the last stanza. " I would mock thy... | |
 | 1902 - 874 pagine
...ancient, solitary reign. Or as Tennyson, always true to Nature In his mention of birds, puts it — Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. I have found the white owl "at home" in many such belfries, where he has often allowed me to handle... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 pagine
...drooping bead, They found that thus, in silent love, Hie gentle one was dead ! SOXG : THE OWL. WREN cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the...latch, And rarely smells the new-mown hay, And the cock has sung beneath the thatch ' Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay, — ^ Alone,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pagine
...blushest angerly ; And o'er black brows drops down A sudden-curved frown. SONG.— THE OWL. WHEN cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the...round, And the whirring sail goes round ; Alone and wanning his five wits, The white owl in the helfry sits. When merry milkmaids click the latch, And... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1845 - 646 pagine
...the cock hath sung beneath the thatch Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay ; Alone, and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. 1 Thy tuwhits are lull'd, I wot, Thy tuwhoos of yesternight, Which upon the dark afloat, So took echo... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 402 pagine
...blushest angerly ; And o'er black brows drops down A sudden-curved frown. SONG.—THE OWL. WHEN cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream is dumh, And the whirring sail goes round, And the whirring sail goes round ; Alone and warming his five... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 276 pagine
...the cock hath sung beneath the thatc Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. SECOND SONG. TO THE SAME. THY tuwhits are lulled, I wot, Thy tuwhoos of yesternight, Which upon the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1853 - 404 pagine
...blushest angerly ; And o'er black brows drops down A sudden-curved frown. SONG.— THE OWL. 1. WHEN cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the...warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. 2. When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely smells the new-mown hay, And the cock hath sung... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1854 - 286 pagine
...the cock hath sung beneath the thatch Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay ; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. SECOND SONG. TO THE SAME. THY tuwhits are lulled, I wot, . Thy tuwhoos of yesternight, Which upon the... | |
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When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely smells the new-mown hay, And the cock hath sung beneath the thatch Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay ; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. 
