 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 and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits.  Teachers' Manual for Second Reader - Página 197por Isaac Kaufman Funk - 1904 - 307 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843
...Again thou 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...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... | |
 | 1844
...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... | |
 | 1902
...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
...drooping 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...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 has sung beneath... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1845
...? Is it very wise or profitable to be manufacturing modern antiques, whose best recommenda* ' \Vheo cats run home, and light is come, And dew is cold...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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1845
...as these to the owl ? We quote them down below in a note.* They are unavailing, even as * s When caU run home, and light is come, And dew is cold upon...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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845
...Again thou 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...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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1850
...Again thou 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 - 1851
...Again thou 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...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... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854
...bird; and treat them to an Owl song, written by Alfred Tennyson, the Poet Laureate of » England: — "When cats run home and light is come, And dew is...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 has sung beneath... | |
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