 | New national reading books - 1880 - 296 pages
...great men. MYERS'S Lectures on Great Men. By permission of the author's widow. THE SOLITARY REAPER. 1. BEHOLD her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland...for the vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. 2. No nightingale did ever chant More welcome notes to weary bands Of travellers in some shady haunt,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 648 pages
...now, the cabin small, The lake, the bay, the waterfall ; And Thee, the Spirit of them all ! (1803.) 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 chaunt More... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 650 pages
...now, the cabin small, The lake, the bay, the waterfall ; And Thee, the Spirit of them all ! (1803.) 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 chaunt More... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 618 pages
...thought Of travelling through the world that la^ Before me in my endless way. THE SOLITARY REAPEE. BEHOLD her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland...herself; Stop here, or gently pass ! Alone she cuts and bmds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain ; O listen ! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1880 - 434 pages
...rested till he lived in a purer world than ours. When Wordsworth says of the solitary reaper, — " Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy...for the vale profound Is overflowing with the sound ! " — the charm is far less in the song, of which he gives so thrilling a conception, than in those... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 676 pages
...human sweetness with the thought Of travelling through the world that lay Before me in my endless way. THE SOLITARY REAPER. BEHOLD her, single in the field,...and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass ! Mone she cuts, and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain ; Oh, listen ! for the vale profound... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...his way attended ; At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day. THE SOLITARY REAPER. Behold her, single in the field,...overflowing with the sound. No nightingale did ever chaunt So sweetly to reposing bands Of travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands ; Such thrilling... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 654 pages
...now, the cabin small, The lake, the bay, the waterfall ; And Thee, the Spirit of them all ! (1803.) 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 chaunt More... | |
 | Anna Callender Brackett - 1881 - 348 pages
...winding-sheet, And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre. Thomas Campbell. • 72 • THE REAPER. Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 308 pages
...small, The lake, the bay, the waterfall ; And thee, the spirit of them all I THE SOLITARY REAPEH. EHOLD her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland lass...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 So sweetly... | |
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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... 
