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 - Page 20by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1854Full view - About this book
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1843 - 260 pages
...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 lull'd I wot, Thy tuwhoos of yesternight, Which upon the... | |
| 1844 - 836 pages
...sufficiently characterized by its first and last line — "When cats run home, and light is come, — Alone and warming his five wits The white owl in the belfry sits." To the second, we should render injustice, did we copy less than the last stanza. " I would mock thy... | |
| Literature - 1902 - 872 pages
...ancient, solitary reign. Or as Tennyson, always true to Nature In his mention of birds, puts it — Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. I have found the white owl "at home" in many such belfries, where he has often allowed me to handle... | |
| Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 pages
...bead, They found that thus, in silent love, Hie gentle one was dead ! SOXG : THE OWL. WREN cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground,...latch, And rarely smells the new-mown hay, And the cock has sung beneath the thatch ' Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay, — ^ Alone,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...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,...round, And the whirring sail goes round ; Alone and wanning his five wits, The white owl in the helfry sits. When merry milkmaids click the latch, And... | |
| Henry Allon - Christianity - 1845 - 646 pages
...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. 1 Thy tuwhits are lull'd, I wot, Thy tuwhoos of yesternight, Which upon the dark afloat, So took echo... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 402 pages
...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, And the far-off stream is dumh, And the whirring sail goes round, And the whirring sail goes round ; Alone and warming his five... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1851 - 276 pages
...the cock hath sung beneath the thatc 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 - 1853 - 404 pages
...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... | |
| Henry Gardiner Adams - Birds - 1854 - 110 pages
...the cock has 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." BED-BACKED SHEIKE. BUTCHER HIRD. FLUSHER. CHEETER. MTTRDERENG PIE. .TACK BAKER. WUISKEY JOHN. NINE-KILLER.... | |
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