...and blind Maeonides,1 And Tiresias,2 and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings...with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks,...

...Light , compares himself to the Nightingale in these words : — " Then fced on thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and, in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her noeturnal note.'' Moore, however, has tho following stanza on a comparison betwcen love and the Nightingale's...

...the ballad-grinder of our day, has been assigned as the peculiar province of those bereft of vision ; "As the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and, in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note." The greatest epic poem of antiquity was probably, as that of the moderns was certainly, composed in...

...songbirds, enhances the beauty of its song by the time when it pours forth its plaintive notes — " The wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal notes." The BALTIMORE ORIOLE is a spring visitor in North America, where it builds its pendent nest...

...je me suis souvent répété ces vers mélancoliques de l'Aveugle poète d'Angleterre • — and a wakeful bird sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid tunes her nocturnal note!.... J'y ai fait la connoissance d'une famille allemande, établie en Pologne, que je vais accompagner à...

...desolation — poised on his own supreme spirituality — have loftily fed " on thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers, as the wakeful bird Sings...in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note." All minds must be impressed by the strange excelling appositeness of the " similitude" in this case....

...equall'd with me in fate iki were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyrk, and blind Maeonides; 35 Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling,...hid, Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year 40 Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal...

...and blind Mseonides, And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings...in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note." Such is the view that Richardson has given us of him in his declining days : — " An ancient clergyman...

...blind Meeonides ; 35 And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings...covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year 40 Seasons return : but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal...

...Milton's thoughts turn to the nightingale singing in darkness: Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful Bird Sings...and in shadiest Covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. How consciously Keats remembered this passage one cannot say, but it contains the whole kernel of the...