 ... whirring sail goes round, And the whirring sail goes round ; 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...  The Medical World - Page 1901887Full view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1868 - 402 pages
...the cock hath sung beneath the thatc' Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay ; Alone and wanning his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. •« SECOND SONG. TO THE SANK. 1. THY tuwhits are lull'd I wot, Thy tuwhoos of yesternight. Which... | |
 | 1871 - 314 pages
...And the far-off stream is dumb, And the whirring sail goes round, And the whirring sail goes round ; Alone and wanning 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1873 - 532 pages
...And the far-off' stream is dumb, And the whirring sail goes round, And the whirring sail goes round ; Alone and wanning 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... | |
 | 1874 - 576 pages
...without the substance. The poet Tennyson has introduced this bird into one of his minor pieces : " Alone, and wanning his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits." THE Kingfisher, a family of birds, is the halcyon of the ancients, from nose period and habits of incubation... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 pages
...the cock hath sung beneath the thatch Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay ; Alone and wanning his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. SECOKD SONG. TO THE SAME. I. THY tuwhits are lull'd, I wot, Thy tuwhoos of yesternight, Which upon... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1877 - 494 pages
...the cock hath sung beneath the thatch Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay ; Alone and wanning his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. SECOND SONG. TO THB SAME. I. TflT tawhits are lull'd, I wot, Thv tuwhoos of yesternight, Which upon... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1901 - 168 pages
...corruption of Par Dieu. 82. besides, 'beside'. 82. five wits, on the analogy of the five senses. Cf. — " Alone and wanning his five wits The white owl in the belfry sits ". 87. propertied, 'treated me like a property, or chattel". 90. advise you, ' be careful '. From here... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1912 - 870 pages
...found, not, as we might expect, in the Cathedral tower, where not uncommonly, as Tennyson puts it, — Alone and wanning his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits— but in the vast hollow of an immemorial elm-tree. Here, year after year, the successive eggs are laid,... | |
 | 1918 - 2030 pages
...the cock hath sung beneath the thatch Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay; Alone and wanning his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. Alfred Tennyson [1809-1802] SWEET SUFFOLK OWL SWEET Suffolk owl, so trimly dight With feathers, like... | |
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