 Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely smells the new-mown hay, And the cock hath sung beneath the thatch Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay ; Alone...  Poems - 20. oldalszerző: Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1854Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Popular poetry - 1862 - 246 oldal
...the cock hath sung beneath the hatch Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay : Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. Tennyson. SONG OF THE OWL. TU-WHOO ! Tu-whoo ! In my ancient hall, In my old gray turret high, Where... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863 - 516 oldal
...the cock hath sung beneath the thatch Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay ; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. SECOND SONG. TO THE SAME. THY tuwhits are lulled, I wot, Thy tuwhoos of yesternight, Which upon the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1864 - 404 oldal
...angerly ; And o'er black brows drops down A sudden-curved frown. S03TG.— THE OWL. 1. WHEN cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground,...warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. 2. When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely smells the new-mown hay, And the cock hath sung... | |
 | John Wilson - 1865 - 444 oldal
...the cock hath sung beneath the thatch Twice or thriee his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay ; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits." SECOND SONG. TO THE SAME. " Thy tuwhits are lulled, I wot, Thy tuwhoos of yesternight, Which upon the... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1865 - 116 oldal
...the cock has sung beneath the thatch Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay ; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. Alfred Tennyson. TO CYNTHIA. QUEEN and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 400 oldal
...blushest angerly ; And o'er black brows drops down A sudden-curved frown. SONG. — THE OWL. WHEN cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground,...the new-mown hay, And the cock hath sung beneath the thatck Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay ; Alone and warming his five wits... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 oldal
...angerly ; And o'er black brows drops down A sudden-curved frown. SONG. — THE OWL. 1. WHEN cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground,...warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. 2. When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely smells the new-mown hay, And the cock hath sung... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1866 - 236 oldal
...lay A worn-out fetter, that the soul Had broken and thrown away ! Longfellow. THE OWL. WHEN cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far off stream is dumb, And the whirring sail goes round, And the whirring sail goes round ; Alone... | |
 | James Cundall - 1866 - 554 oldal
...owl usually prefers some ivied ruin or church tower as its resting-place. Tennyson mentions it as ' ' Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits." Owls are sometimes destroyed under the belief that they prey upon the young game, but this is very... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 398 oldal
...the cock hath sung beneath the thatck Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay ; Alone and warming his five wits The white owl in the belfry sits. SECOND SONG. TO THE SAME. THY tuwhits are lulled, I wot, Thy tuwhoos of yesternight, Which upon the... | |
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