 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1906 - 324 pages
...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... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1911 - 446 pages
...the appearance of this poem, nothing like these lines could have been found in American verse : — " 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... | |
 | Charles Wesley Emerson - 1913 - 138 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...cricket's chirp, and the answer shrill Of the gauze-winged katy-did, And the plaint of the wailing whippoorwill, Who moans unseen, and ceaseless sings, Ever a... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster - 1918 - 750 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...owl 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... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - 1918 - 746 pages
...below ; *> The winds are whist, and the owl 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 katy-did ; And the plaint of the wailing whip-poor-- will, Who moans unseen, and ceaseless sings, Ever... | |
 | 1919 - 966 pages
...fling, as its ripples gently flow, A burnished length of wavy beam In an eel-like, spiral line below; 20 ons by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern; some ; 126 And naught is heard on the lonely hill But the cricket's chirp, and the answer shrill Of the... | |
 | Charles Alphonso Smith - 1921 - 370 pages
...distinguish it from that baser alloy upon which we have descanted. We give them without farther comment. 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 whippoorwill Who mourns unseen, and ceaseless sings Ever a note... | |
 | Ida Prentice Whitcomb - 1922 - 486 pages
...shooting-star; and Drake's theme is saturated with fairy lore as we may feel in reading these lines : — " 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... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1923 - 572 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...cricket's chirp, and the answer shrill Of the gauze-winged katy-did ; And the plaint of the wailing whippoorwill, Who moans unseen, and ceaseless sings, Ever... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1922 - 1086 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...cricket's chirp, and the answer shrill Of the gauze-winged katydid, J5 And the plaint of the wailing whip-poor-will, Who moans unseen, and ceaseless sings, Ever... | |
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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... 
