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" The winds are whist, and the owl is still, The bat in the shelvy rock is hid, And naught is heard on the lonely hill But the cricket's chirp and the answer shrill Of the gauze-winged katy-did; And the plaint of the wailing whip-poor-will Who mourns unseen,... "
The American Monthly Magazine - Page 68
1835
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The universal anthology, a collection of the best literature ..., Volume 21

Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...of the wailing whip-poor-will, Who moans unseen, and ceaseless sings, Ever a note of wail and woe, Till morning spreads her rosy wings, And earth and sky in her glances glow. in. "Tis the hour of fairy ban and spell ; The wood tick has kept the minutes well ; He has counted...
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and ..., Volume 8

John Clark Ridpath - 1899 - 550 pages
...chirp, and the answer shrill Of the gauze-winged katydid, And the plaint of the wailing whippoorwiK, Who mourns unseen, and ceaseless sings Ever a note of wail and woe, Till the morning spreads her rosy wings, And earth and sky in her glances glow. 'Tis the hour...
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American Literature

Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1901 - 390 pages
...of the waiting whip-poor-will, Who moans unseen, and ceaseless sings, Ever a note of wail and woe, Till morning spreads her rosy wings, And earth and sky in her glances glow." Halleck was not of New York City by birth, but went thither from his Connecticut home in 1811, and...
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American Literature

Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1901 - 392 pages
...of the waiting whip-poor-will, Who moans unseen, and ceaseless sings, Ever a note of wail and woe, Till morning spreads her rosy wings, And earth and sky in her glances glow." Halleck was not of New York City by birth, but went thither from his Connecticut home in 1811, and...
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The Fireside Encyclopedia of Poetry: Comprising the Best Poems of the Most ...

Henry Troth Coates - 1901 - 1080 pages
...of the wailing whip-poorwill, Who moans unseen, and ceaseless sings, i Ever a note of wail and woe, m. 818 He has counted them all with click aud stroke Deep in the heart of the mountain-oak, And he...
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The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 8

Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 412 pages
...heard on the lonely hill But the cricket's chirp and the answer shrill Of the gauze-winged katy-did ; And the plaint of the 'wailing whippoorwill Who mourns...unseen, and ceaseless sings Ever a note of wail and wo — Up to the vaulted firmament His path the fire-fly courser bent, And at every gallop on the wind...
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Literary criticisms

Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 726 pages
...heard on the lonely hill But the cricket's chirp and the answer shrill Of the gauze-winged katy-did ;. And the plaint of the 'wailing whippoorwill Who mourns...unseen, and ceaseless sings Ever a note of wail and wo — Up to the vaulted firmament His path the fire-fly courser bent, And at every gallop on the wind...
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Fairyland and fancy

Frederick Brigham De Berard - 1902 - 422 pages
...heard on the lonely hill But the cricket's chirp and the answer shrill Of the gauze-winged katydid; And the plaint of the wailing whip-poor-will. Who...unseen, and ceaseless sings, Ever a note of wail and woe, Till morning spreads her rosy wings, And earth and sky in her glances glow. Ill 'Tis the hour...
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volumes 1-2; Volumes 8-9

Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 738 pages
...heard on the lonely hill But the cricket's chirp and the answer shrill Of the gauze-winged katy-did ; And the plaint of the 'wailing whippoorwill Who mourns...unseen, and ceaseless sings Ever a note of wail and wo — Up to the vaulted firmament His path the fire-fly courser bent, And at every gallop on the wind...
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The World's Best Poetry ...

John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - 618 pages
...plaint of the wailing whippoorwill, Who moans unseen, and ceaseless sings Ever a note of wail and woe, Till morning spreads her rosy wings, And earth and sky in her glances glow. 'T is the honr of fairy ban and spell : The wood-tick has kept the minutes well ; He has counted them...
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