 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...BEROLD her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland lass! Reaping and singing by herself, Stop bere, or gently pass ! Alone she cuts and binds the grain,...overflowing with the sound. No nightingale did ever chant More welco'me notes to weary bands Of travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands : Such... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...Alas for love, if thou wert all, And naught beyond, O Earth ! THE SOLITARY REAPER. — Wordsworth. BEHOLD her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland...and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain ; 0, listen ! for the vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. No nightingale did ever chant More... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...give. The prosaic character of the field-work is somewhat changed when we hear the song of Wordsworth's solitary reaper : — Behold her, single in the field,...and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain ; O listen ! for the vale profound Is overflowing with the 'sound. No nightingale did ever chaunt More... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1847 - 580 pages
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 | Spring flowers, S. P. - 1849 - 178 pages
...work for the year is done, Thy master comes for the spoil, Woe then for thee, thou busy bee ! Southey. THE SOLITARY REAPER. Behold her single in the field,...and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain ; O listen ! for the vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. For old, unhappy far-off things,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1849 - 378 pages
...thought Of travelling through the world that lay Before me in my endless way. VII. THE SOLITARY REAPEK. BEHOLD her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland...and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain ; O listen ! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. No Nightingale did ever chant More... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 506 pages
...following poem l was suggested to Wm. by a beautiful sentence in Thomas Wilkinson's Tour in Scotland. "Behold her single in the field, Yon solitary Highland...the vale profound Is overflowing with the sound." ' ' Friday, September 16th. — When we found ourselves once again in the streets of Edinburgh we regretted... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 492 pages
...following poem 1 was suggested to Wm. by a beautiful sentence in Thomas Wilkinson's Tour in Scotland. ' Behold her single in the field, Yon solitary Highland...binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; Oh I listen, for the vale profound Is overflowing with the sound.' " "Friday, September 16th.—When we... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...sweetness with the thought Of travelling through the world that lay Before me in my endless way. VII. pnss! Alone she cuts, and binds the gram, And sings a melancholy strain ; O listen! for the Vule profound... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pages
...days of man's pilgrimage, and to " charm his pained steps over the burning marie." — SYDNEY SMITH. THE SOLITARY REAPER. BEHOLD her, single in the field,...and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain ; O listen ! for the vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. No nightingale did ever chant More... | |
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Oh, listen ! for the vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. No nightingale did ever chaunt More welcome notes to weary bands Of travellers in some shady haunt Among Arabian sands : —A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In spring-time from the... 
