 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 904 psl.
...Crown'd after trial; sketches rude and faint, But where a passion yet unborn perhaps Lay hidden as the music of the moon Sleeps in the plain eggs of the nightingale. And thus together, save for college-times Or Temple-eaten terms, a couple, fair As ever painter painted,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 896 psl.
...Crown'd after trial; sketches rude and faint, But where a passion yet unborn perhaps l,ay hidden as the music of the moon Sleeps in the plain eggs of the nightingale. And thus together, save for college-times Or Temple-eaten terms, a couple, fair As ever painter painted,... | |
 | Edward Campbell Tainsh - 1893 - 338 psl.
...nevertheless, in brother and sister guise, at first — " But where a passion yet unborn, perhaps Lay hidden as the music of the moon Sleeps in the plain eggs of the nightingale." At last it conies to be known — to themselves, and then to Sir Aylmer. He, with the coarseness proper... | |
 | 1897 - 260 psl.
...knows not what, albeit his little dusky sweetheart sits content below upon her oak-leaf nest, " Where the music of the moon Sleeps in the plain eggs of the nightingale." If you happen to have any sorrows he will rake them up, but he will not make you whirring in the oak... | |
 | Frederick Noël Paton - 1894 - 604 psl.
...pure and pale ! SIR EDWIN ARNOLD. From "AYLMER'S FIELD" ... a passion yet unborn perhaps Lay hidden as the music of the moon Sleeps in the plain eggs of the nightingale. TENNYSON. From "OUT OF THE CRADLE ENDLESSLY ROCKING" UP this sea-shore in some briers, Two feather'd... | |
 | Maud Going - 1894 - 322 psl.
...year. The possibilities of sweetness and beauty are hidden under their small brown coats as surely as "the music of the moon sleeps in the plain eggs of the nightingale." There will be many blossoms next summer for each that has faded this year, for, in the words of Hugh... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1895 - 304 psl.
...gray; " Alas ! we are gray ; and we doubt, you know, But " little Blue-Ribbons " will have it so ! LINES TO A STUPID PICTURE. " — the music of the moon Sleeps in the plain eg^s of the nightingale." AYLMER'S FIELD. TC'IVE geese, — a landscape damp and wild,— A stunted,... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1895 - 310 psl.
...gray; " Alas ! we are gray ; and we doubt, you know, But " little Blue-Ribbons " will have it so ! LINES TO A STUPID PICTURE. " — the music of the moon Sleeps in the plain egi;s of the nightingale." AYLMER'S FIELD. TJ*IVE geese, — a landscape damp and wild, — A stunted,... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 526 psl.
...RUSKIN. The Crown of Wild Olive, War, 93. "(But) where a Passion, yet unborn perhaps, Lay hidden as the music of the moon Sleeps in the plain eggs of the nightingale." TENNYSON. Aylmer's Field. "Where boasting ends, there dignity begins." YOUNG. Night Thoughts, Night... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1898 - 556 psl.
...LINES TO A STUPID PICTURE " — the mussc of the moon Slerps in tht plain eggs oftkr nsghtingale. " — AYLMER'S FIELD. FIVE geese, — a landscape damp and...the least, require A Muse of more-than-average Fire Effectively to sing 'em. And yet — Why should they ? Souls of mark Have sprung from such ; — e'en... | |
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Crown'd after trial ; sketches rude and faint, But where a passion yet unborn perhaps Lay hidden as the music of the moon Sleeps in the plain eggs of the nightingale. 
