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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. "
The Heath Readers by Grades - Page 217
1907
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Poems, Volume 1

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1843 - 260 pages
...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...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 235

1902 - 872 pages
...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...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 10

1844 - 836 pages
...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...
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Poems

Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...Again thou 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...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...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 2

Henry Allon - 1845 - 646 pages
...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...
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Poems

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 402 pages
...Again thou 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...
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Poems, Volume 1

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 276 pages
...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...
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Poems

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1853 - 404 pages
...thou 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...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...
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Poems, Volume 1

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1854 - 286 pages
...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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Nests and Eggs of Familiar British Birds: Described and Illustrated, with an ...

Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 110 pages
...the cock has sung beneath the hatch Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay, — Alone, and warming his five wits, The White Owl in the belfry sits." BED-BACKED SHEIKE. BUTCHER HIRD. FLUSHER. CHEETER. MTTRDERENG PIE. .TACK BAKER. WUISKEY JOHN. NINE-KILLER....
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