...oak; Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chantress, oft the woods among, I woo to hear thy even-song; And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one...

...Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia, checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er th' accustom'd oak: " 60 Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, channtress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song; And, missing thec, I walk unseen 65...

...Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The cherub Contemplation ; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest, saddest...While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke. Gently o'er th' aceustom'd oke ; Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee...

...Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The cherub Contemplation ; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest, saddest...While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er th' accustom'd oke ; Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee...

...Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation ; And the mute Silence hist along, 55 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest, saddest...While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er th' accustom'd oak ; 60 Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy...

...question was raised by Coleridge a century and a half ago in his criticism of Milton's well-known lines : Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy. For Coleridge no bird can be melancholy. It is man who imparts his own mood to the song ; he is sad,...

...bring Him who yon soars on golden Wing Guiding the Fiery wheeled Throne The Cherub Contemplation Less Philomel will deign a song In her sweetest saddest...While Cynthia Checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomd Oak. They are 11. 3 1-34, 37-39, 45-54, and 56-60 of // Penseroso, in The Works of John Milton,...

...actively addresses and "woos" their action: Sweet Bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musicall, most melancholy! Thee Chauntress oft the Woods among, I woo to hear thy eevn-Song . . . [61-64] This speaker does not float with loose participles; his stance is precise,...

...number why did you answer the phone? James Thurber (1894-1%1) American humorist, illustrator The Blues Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly. Most musical, most melancholy. John Milton (1608-1674) English poet I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do....

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