 | 1883 - 846 pages
...already stated, of what he in the next stanza so beautifully describes, regarding the "Wood-pigeon : I heard a Stockdove sing or say His homely tale, this...day : His voice was buried among trees, Yet to be come-at by the breeze : He did not cease ; but cooed — and cooed ; And somewhat pensively he wooed... | |
 | United States - 1856 - 642 pages
...and, not unfrequently, to the oscillations of our own body : " I heard a stock-dove sing or say TTia homely tale this very day. His voice was buried among trees, Yet to be come at by the breeze ; Ho did not cease, but cooed, and cooed, And somewhat pensively he wooed. Ho sang of love, with quiet... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1857 - 480 pages
...ebullient heart.— Edit. 1815. And steady bliss, and all the loves Now sleeping in these peaceful groves. I heard a Stock-dove sing or say His homely tale,...day ; His voice was buried among trees, Yet to be come-at by the breeze : He did not cease ; but cooed — and cooed ; And somewhat pensively he wooed... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 472 pages
...selected from these volumes : ' Over his own sweet voice the Stock-dove broods,' of the same bird, ' His voice was buried among trees, Yet to be come at by the breeze;' ' 0, Cuckoo ! shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering Voice ? The stock-dove is said to coo, a sound... | |
 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pages
...dews, and silent night, And steady bliss, and all the loves Now sleeping in these peaceful groves. 1 heard a stock-dove sing or say His homely tale, this...buried among trees, Yet to be come at by the breeze ; THREE years she grew in sun and shower. Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Bookbinding - 1858 - 550 pages
...dews, and silent night. And steady bliss, and all the loves Now sleeping in these peaceful groves. 1 heard a stock-dove sing or say His homely tale, this...very day, His voice was buried among trees, Yet to bo come at by the breeze ; He did not cease, but coo'd — and cco'd ; And somewhat pensively he woo'd... | |
 | Charles Alexander Johns - Birds - 1862 - 676 pages
...Wordsworth celebrates it under a name generally given to the next species :— " I heard a Stock Dove sing or say His homely tale, this very day; His voice...buried among trees, Yet to be come at by the breeze. It did not cease; but cooed and cooed, And somewhat pensively he wooed; . He sang of love with quiet... | |
 | 1864 - 694 pages
...happy, genial influence, Coming one knows not how, nor whence, Nor whither going." "To the Daisy." " I heard a stock-dove sing or say His homely tale,...at by the breeze : He did not cease, but cooed and coo'J ; And somewhat pensively ho woo'd : He sang of love with quiet blending, Slow to begin, and never... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1865 - 316 pages
...dews, and silent night ; And steady bliss, and all the loves Now sleeping in these peaceful groves. I heard a Stock-dove sing or say His homely tale,...day ; His voice was buried among trees, Yet to be come-at by the breeze : He did not cease ; but cooed — and cooed ; And somewhat pensively he wooed... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1865 - 318 pages
...dews, and silent night ; And steady bliss, and all the loves Now sleeping in these peaceful groves. I heard a Stock-dove sing or say His homely tale,...day ; His voice was buried among trees, Yet to be come-at by the breeze : He did not cease ; but cooed — and cooed ; And somewhat pensively he wooed... | |
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He sang of love, with quiet blending, Slow to begin, and never ending ; Of serious faith, and inward glee ; That was the song, the song for me... 
