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" The stars are on the moving stream, And fling, as its ripples gently flow, A burnished length of wavy beam In an eel-like, spiral line below... "
The American Monthly Magazine - Page 68
1835
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The Household Book of Poetry

Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 pages
...stars are on the moving stream, And fling, as its ripples gently flow, A buniished length of wavy beam In an eel-like, spiral line below ; The winds are...chirp, and the answer shrill . Of the gauze-winged katydid ; And the plaint of the wailing whippoorwill, Who moans unseen, and ceaseless sings, Ever a...
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Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry

Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 pages
...winds are whist, and tho owl is still, The bat in tho slielvy rock is hid, And naught is hoard on tho o wrought with strenuous will The work ganze-winged katydid, And the plaint of the wailing whippoorwill, Who mourns unseen, and ceaseless...
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The Fifth Reader

E.H. Butler & Co - 1853 - 396 pages
...are on-the moving stream, < And fling, as its ripples gently flow, A burnished length of wavy beam In an eel-like, spiral line below ; The winds are...cricket's chirp and the answer shrill Of the gauze-winged katydid, And the plaint of the wailing whip-poor-will, Who moans unseen and ceaseless sings, Ever a...
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Appalachia, Volume 3

1884 - 426 pages
...stars are on the moving stream, And fling, as its ripples gently flow, A burnished length of wavy beam, In an eel-like, spiral line below. The winds are whist,...is still ; The bat in the shelvy rock is hid; And nought is heard on the lonely hill But the cricket's chirp, and the answer shrill Of the gauze-winged...
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An Outline Sketch of American Literature

Henry Augustin Beers - 1887 - 300 pages
...Coleridge's Cliristabel, published three years before — was something new in American poetry : " The winds are whist and the owl is still, The bat...cricket's chirp and the answer shrill, Of the gauze-winged katydid, And the plaint of the wailing whip-poor-will Who moans unseen, and ceaseless sings Ever a...
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An Outline Sketch of American Literature

Henry Augustin Beers - 1887 - 300 pages
....years before — was something new in A merican poetry ;. ." - - -, ."t'fTlre wirvcls art wMst.a-nd the owl is still, ' The bat in the shelvy rock is...cricket's chirp and the answer shrill, Of the gauze-winged katydid, And the plaint of the wailing whip-poor-will Who moans unseen, and ceaseless sings Ever a...
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Red and Blue, Volume 12

1899 - 434 pages
...have any nature in them and, incidentally, they give the first appearance of the whip-po-wil in verse: "The winds are whist, and the owl is still, The bat...cricket's chirp, and the answer shrill Of the gauze-winged katy-did; And the plaint of the wailing whip-poor-will, Who moans unseen and ceaseless sings, Ever...
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The Continental First[-fifth] Reader, Volume 5

William A. Campbell - 1890 - 514 pages
...stars are on the moving stream, And fling, as its ripples gently flow, A burnished length of wavy beam In an eel-like, spiral line below ; The winds are whist, and the owl is still, The bat in the shelfy rock is hid, And naught is heard on the lonely hill But the cricket's chirp, and the answer...
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The Culprit Fay

Joseph Rodman Drake - 1891 - 152 pages
...stars are on the moving stream, And fling, as its ripples gently flow, A burnished length of wavy beam In an eel-like, spiral line below ; The winds are...hill But the cricket's chirp, and the answer shrill Who moans unseen, and ceaseless Ever a note of wail and woe, Till morning spreads her rosy wings, And...
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Initial Studies in American Letters

Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 288 pages
...reading Coleridge's Christabel, published three years before — was something new in American poetry : " The winds are whist and the owl is still, The bat...cricket's chirp and the answer shrill Of the gauze-winged katydid, And the plaint of the wailing whip-poor-will, Who moans unseen, and ceaseless sings Ever a...
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