 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 340 pages
...would sleep, But watch must keep. WT MONCRIEPP. The day's grown old, the fainting sun Has but a Tittle way to run ; And yet his steeds, with all his skill, Scarce lug the chariot down the hill. CHARLES COTTON. It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard ; It is the... | |
 | Charles Cotton - 1903 - 164 pages
...scorching hours o'erpassed, In a more mild and temperate ray We may again enjoy the day. 40 III. — EVENING QUATRAINS The Day's grown old, the fainting...all his skill, Scarce lug the chariot down the hill. II With labour spent, and thirst opprest, Whilst they strain hard to gain the west, From fetlocks hot... | |
 | Charles Cotton - 1922 - 56 pages
...pass'd, In a more mild and temp' rate Ray We may again enjoy the day. THE Day's grown old, the feinting Sun Has but a little way to run, And yet his Steeds,...melted light, Which turn to Meteors in the Night. The Shadows now so long do grow, That Brambles like tall Cedars show, Mole-hills seem Mountains, and... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 1924 - 400 pages
...the spices thereof may flow out. HENRY VAUGHAN. EVENING QUATRAINS I THE Day's grown old, the faulting Sun Has but a little way to run, And yet his Steeds,...all his skill, Scarce lug the Chariot down the Hill. n With Labour spent, and Thirst opprest, Whilst they strain hard to gain the West, From Fetlocks hot... | |
 | Glenn Watkins - 2002 - 628 pages
...offer a prescient forecast of colonialism's eclipse, in particular Charles Cotton's opening "Pastoral" ("The day's grown old; the fainting sun / Has but a little way to run"J and Alfred Tennyson's "Nocturne" ("Blow, bugle blow, set the wild echoes flying; / And answer,... | |
 | Paul Barker - 2004 - 224 pages
...the traditional stresses inferred by bar lines, Britten recomposes this structure quite differently: The Day's grown old; the fainting sun Has but a little way to run, 3 i /* i =F= T Ir 'if I r' fr * —r= iri M ki L r lr ^^ das ist von an - dem. hit n • mel - sch0... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire, Rolfe Arnold Scott-James - 1922 - 726 pages
...Quatrains on Evening are, however, not long and will afford at least one complete example of his art : EVENING, Quatrains The day's grown old, the fainting...melted light, Which turn to meteors in the night. The shadows now so long do grow, That brambles like tall cedars show, Mole-hills seem mountains, and... | |
 | Arthur Finley Scott - 1957 - 240 pages
...dreamily Evening died on Elbe's shore; Winds were in the cloudy sky, Sighing, mourning ever more. (*) The Day's grown old, the fainting Sun Has but a little...West, From Fetlocks hot drops melted light, Which turns to Meteors in the Night. The Shadows now so long do grow, That Brambles like tall Cedars show,... | |
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The day's grown old, the fainting sun Has but a little way to run, And yet his steeds, with all his skill, Scarce lug the chariot down the hill. 