 And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through...  Comus: A Mask: Presented at Ludlow Castle 1634, Before the Earl of ... - Page 119by John Milton, Thomas Warton - 1799 - 124 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Halford Vaughan - Books and reading - 1836 - 76 pages
...his positive knowledge, and studied the mere outward image in order to write the following lines : To behold the wand'ring moon Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Thro' the heavens wide pathless way ; And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping thro' a fleecy cloud.... | |
 | 1837 - 646 pages
...'shaven green," or the " arched walks of twilight groves," he beheld the wandering moon, Riding in her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way." Milton realized the canon of Jonson ; what he borrowed he made his own... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1838 - 372 pages
...passage from the Penseroso : -I walk unseen On the dry, smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon : Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Oft,... | |
 | 1838 - 544 pages
...choly have something of a pleasing turn, when we fore» walk forth— To behold the wand'ring MOOD, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.—... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Mythology, Classical - 1838 - 1120 pages
...Byz. t>. 'A/Jairis. e Ap. Sch. Eurip. ut mj>. " See Welcker, Tril. 127. ieq. To behold the wandering moon Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led tutray Through the heaven's wide pathless way.— Milton. firmation of this theory, we are assured... | |
 | Periodicals - 1839 - 272 pages
...country ; such as makes melancholy have something of a pleasing turn, when we love to walk forth — To behold the wand'ring Moon, Riding near her highest...noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.—... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even-song ; And missing thee, I walk unseen 65 On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chantress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song ; And,...unseen On the dry, smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry, smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way ; And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud, Oft,... | |
 | England - 1840 - 880 pages
...sameness of the untrodden sky ? " I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering Moon Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the Heaven's wide pathless way; And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud." May... | |
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