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" Pressed closely palm to palm and to his mouth Uplifted, he, as through an instrument, Blew mimic hootings to the silent owls, That they might answer him. — And they would shout Across the watery vale, and shout again, Responsive to his call, — with... "
The poetical works of William Wordsworth - Page 350
by William Wordsworth - 1866 - 448 pages
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Lyrical Ballads,: With Other Poems. In Two Volumes, Volume 2

William Wordsworth - 1800 - 240 pages
...At evening, when the stars had just begun To move along the edges of the hills, Rising or setting, would he stand alone, Beneath the trees, or by the...lake, And there, with fingers interwoven, both hands Press'd closely palm to palm and to his mouth Uplifted, he, as through an instrument, Blew mimic hootings...
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Lyrical ballads, with other poems [including some by S.T. Coleridge]. From ...

William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...At evening, when die stars had just begun To move along the edges of the hills,. Rising or setting, would he stand alone,, Beneath the trees, or by the...lake. And there, with fingers interwoven, both hands . Press'd closely palm, to palm and to his mouth Uplifted, he, as through an instrument, Blew mimic...
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Poems, Volume 1

William Wordsworth - 1815 - 442 pages
...At evening, when the earliest stars began To move along the edges of the hills, Rising or setting, would he stand alone, Beneath the trees, or by the...vale, and shout again Responsive to his call, — with quivering peals, And long halloos, and screams, and echoes loud Redoubled and redoubled; concourse...
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Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the ..., Volume 1

William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 pages
...At evening, when the earliest stars began To move along the edges of the hills, \ Rising or setting, would he stand alone, Beneath the trees, or by the...vale, and shout again Responsive to his call, — with quivering peals, And long halloos, and screams, and echoes loud Redoubled and redoubled; concourse...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 26

1829 - 1008 pages
...to hoot like an owL The operation ia thus described : " With fingers interwoven, both hands Press'd closely, palm to palm, and to his mouth Uplifted,...hootings to the silent owls, That they might answer him." Then comes the plantation for immortality :— " When it chanced That pauses of deep silence mock'd...
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Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary ..., Volume 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 326 pages
...specimens taken with little choice. The first from the lines on the " BOY OF WINANDER-MERE," — who " Blew mimic hootings to the silent owls, That they...would shout, Across the watery vale and shout again With long halloos, and screams, and echoes loud Redoubled and redoubled, concourse wild Of mirth and...
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The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth, Volume 2

William Wordsworth - 1820 - 372 pages
...stars began To move along the edges of the hills, Rising or setting, would he stand alone, ieneath the trees, or by the glimmering lake ; A.nd there,...hands Pressed closely palm to palm and to his mouth LJplifted, he, as through an instrument, Blew mimic hootings to the silent owls, That they might answer...
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The Atlantic Magazine, Volume 2

1825 - 500 pages
...evening, when the earliest stars began To move along- the edges of the hills, Rising or setting, would be stand alone, Beneath the trees, or by the glimmering...his mouth Uplifted, he, as through an instrument, Slew mimic hootings to the silent owls, That they might answer him. — And they would tlunil Across...
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Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary ..., Volumes 1-2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1834 - 360 pages
...specimens taken with little choice. The first from the lines on the " BOY OF WINANDER-MERE," — who " Blew mimic hootings to the silent owls, That they...would shout, Across the watery vale and shout again With long halloos, and screams, and echoes loud Redoubled and redoubled, concourse wild Of mirth, and...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

John Wilson - 1842 - 414 pages
...to hoot like an owl. The operation is thus described : " With fingers interwoven, both hands Press'd closely, palm to palm, and to his mouth Uplifted,...hootings to the silent owls, That they might answer him." Then- comes the plantation for immortality : " When it chanced That pauses of deep silence mock'd his...
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