THE NIGHTINGALE;
Reading edition
A CONVERSATIONAL POEM, WRITTEN IN APRIL, 1798.
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · Footnote 1 (return): “Most musical, most melancholy.” This passage in Milton possesses an excellence far superior to that of mere descriptioNote 2 · No cloud, no relique of the sunken day Distinguishes the West, no long thin slip Of sullen Light, no obscure trembling hues. Come, we will rNote 3 · Footnote 2 (return): Several of the Lakes in the north of England are let out to different Fishermen, in parcels marked out by imaginary linNote 4 · By Derwent’s side my Father’s cottage stood, (The Woman thus her artless story told) One field, a flock, and what the neighbouring flood Sup