 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...Contemplation ; And the mute silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song. In her sweetest, saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke. Gently o'er the accustomed oak ; 7 Sweet bird that shuan'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy !... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...Contemplation : And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest, saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak : Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy !... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 508 pages
...throne, The Cherub Contemplation, And the mute Silence hift along, 'Lefs Philomel will deign a Song, In her fweeteft, faddeft plight, Smoothing the rugged...night, While Cynthia checks her Dragon yoke, Gently o're th'accuftom'd Oke ; 60 Sweet Bird that fhunn'ft the noife of folly, Moft mufical, moft Melancholy... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...Contemplation ; And the mute Silence hist along, 55 ' Less Philomel will deign a song In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak : 60 Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy... | |
 | John Milton - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 412 pages
...Contemplation, And the mute Silence hist along, 55 'Less Philomel will daign a Song, In her sweetest, saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her Dragon yoke, Gently o're th'accustom'd Oke; 60 Sweet Bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musicall, most melancholy!... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...Contemplation ; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy I Thee,... | |
 | Bette Charlene Werner - English poetry - 1986 - 328 pages
...Fiery wheeled Throne The Cherub Contemplation Less Philomel will deign a song In her sweetest saddest plight Smoothing the rugged Brow of Night While Cynthia Checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomd Oak. They are 11. 3 1-34, 37-39, 45-54, and 56-60 of // Penseroso, in The Works of John... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...Contemplation; And the mute Silence hist along, 55 'Less Philomel will deign a Song, In her sweetest, saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her Dragon yoke, Gently o'er th' accustom'd Oak; 60 Sweet Bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...Contemplation, And the mute Silence hist along,0 'Less Philomel will deign a song,0 In her sweetest, saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke,0 Gently o'er th' accustomed oak; 60 Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical,... | |
 | John Milton - 2006 - 66 pages
...Contemplation; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee,... | |
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But, first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged... 
