 It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or...  Ingalls of Kansas: A Character Study - Page 3by William Elsey Connelley - 1909 - 232 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 pages
...returning morning ?— " See, love ! what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder East ! Night's candles * are burnt out, — and jocund Day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops ! " Where shall we find sweet sounds and odours so luxuriously blended and illustrated, as in these... | |
 | 1847 - 526 pages
...hearing double recompense. SHAKSPEARK. 2. The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. SHAKSPEARE. 3. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tip-toe on the misty mountain tops. SHAKSPEARE. 4. But look ! the moon, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hiJl.... | |
 | George Fletcher (essayist.) - 1847 - 418 pages
...morn, No nightingale : look, love, what enrious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east : Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund Day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops : I must be gone and live, or stay and die. Jul. Yon light is not day-light, I know it, I : It is some... | |
 | 1847 - 540 pages
...hearing double recompense. SHAKSPEARE. 2. The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. SHAKSPEARE. 3. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tip-toe on the misty mountain tops. SHAKSPEARE. 4. But look ! the moon, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1848 - 536 pages
...morn, No nightingale; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops ; I must be gone and live, or stay and die. Rom. Let me be ta'en, let me be put to death; I am content,... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 222 pages
...But look, the morn in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high Eastern hill." And again, " Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day, Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops." Those touchingly beautiful descriptions of morning are its highest ideal possible in poetry. Genius... | |
 | Pliny Miles - 1850 - 374 pages
...known what fruit would spring from such a seed. Childe Harold— Canto 4, Stanza 10. BruoN. ROADS. 153. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. Romeo and Juliet — Act 3, Sc. 5. SHAKSPEARE. A HOMELY MILL. 154. No wrestling winds nor blustering... | |
 | Bradford Kinney Peirce, Bradford Kinney Pierce - 1850 - 360 pages
...from his night interview with her when " Envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east : Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops." And he seeks her tomb and dies by her side at night. Hamlet opens with a graphic night scene, and an... | |
 | Pliny Miles - 1850 - 372 pages
...what fruit would spring from such a seed. Childe Harold— Canto 4, Stanza 10. BYRON. ROADS. 1 53. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. Romeo and Juliet — Act 3, Sc. 5. SHAKSPEARE. A HOMELY MILL. 154. No wrestling winds nor blustering... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 pages
...SLEEPS on yonder bank!" "See, love! what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder East ! Night's candles' are burnt out — and jocund Day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops !" Where shall we find swcet sounds and odors so luxuriously blended and illustrated, as in these few... | |
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