 | Thomas Gray - 1891 - 192 pages
...past. 10 Cease, my doubts, my fears to move, Spare the honour of my love. XXV. COUPLET ABOUT BIEDS. THERE pipes the woodlark, and the song-thrush there Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air. NOTES. I. -ODE ON THE SPRING. THIS Ode was written at Stoke in June, 1742, and sent by Gray to his... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Bradshaw - 1891 - 404 pages
...Cambridge." This couplet was first printed in Mathias' edition of Gray's Works (1814), vol. ii. p. 596. THERE pipes the woodlark, and the song-thrush there Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air. DOUBTFUL POEMS. I. • ODE. SEEDS of poetry and rhime Nature in my soul implanted ; But the genial... | |
 | 1891 - 596 pages
...poet whose mainspring is his own cleverness, or the praise of " the town," than such lines as— " There pipes the woodlark, and the song-thrush there Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air." It is only fair to insist on this side of Gray's character and poetical position, because an attempt... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1894 - 400 pages
...Cambridge." This couplet was first printed in Mathias' edition of Gray's Works (1814), vol. ii. p. 596. THEKE pipes the woodlark, and the song-thrush there Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air. DOUBTFUL POEMS. L ODE. SEEDS of poetry and rhime Nature in my soul implanted ; But the genial hand... | |
 | Myra Reynolds - 1896 - 328 pages
...thrilling ecstacy ; And, lessening from the dazzled sight, Melts into air and liquid light,"1 and, "There pipes the wood-lark, and the song-thrush there Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air."" Though undated these lines in their spirit and workmanship ally themselves at once with the period... | |
 | Myra Reynolds - 1896 - 312 pages
...thrilling ecstacy ; And, lessening from the dazzled sight, Melts into air and liquid light,"' and, " There pipes the wood-lark, and the song-thrush there Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air."7 Though undated these lines in their spirit and workmanship ally themselves at once with the... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1898 - 334 pages
...its everlasting portals high, And bids the pure in heart behold their God. XXXI. COUPLET ABOUT BIRDS. THERE pipes the woodlark, and the song-thrush there Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air. AIR. " HKNCK., avaunt, ('tis holy ground) Comus, and his midnight crew, And Ignorance with looks profound,... | |
 | John Cann Bailey - 1899 - 324 pages
...the poet whose mainspring is his own cleverness, or the praise of "the town," than such lines as— " There pipes the woodlark, and the song-thrush there Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air." It is only fair to insist on this side of Gray's character and poetical position, because an attempt... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1904 - 362 pages
...fragment, two verses made by Mr. Gray as we were walking in the spring in the neighbourhood of Cambridge, " There pipes the woodlark, and the song-thrush there Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air." I asked him how he felt when he composed the Bard. " Why, I felt myself the bard." Spenser was among... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 724 pages
...little trill of improvised song which Norton Nicholls has preserved : — There pi pen the wood lark, and the song-thrush there Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air, a couplet which Gray made one spring morning, ns Nicholls and he -were walking in the fields in the... | |
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I will set down after this another little fragment, two verses made by Mr. Gray as we were walking in the spring in the neighbourhood of Cambridge, " There pipes the woodlark, and the song-thrush there Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air. 
