| Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 340 pages
...Left his ground nest, and towering to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song. MILTON. Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert,...full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. SHELLEY. Hark ! hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water... | |
| sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...bright again ! 1. Rack: see note 18, extract 51. Percy Bysshe Shelky. 1792-1822. (History, p. 228.) 198. To A SKYLARK. Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird '...springest Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken... | |
| E. Wadham - 1869 - 176 pages
...beyond the others to six-foot length, forming what is commonly known as an Alexandrine. ODE TO THE SKYLARK. Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never...springest Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. SHELLEY. PRINCE OP THE PURPLE ISLAND.... | |
| M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 pages
...God is done ! ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE DIFFERENT QUALITIES OF TONE. TO A SKYLARK. Percy Bysshe Shelley. Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert,...springest Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken... | |
| Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...of .1 slain," and " The Cenci," a tragedy. Many of his minor poems are simple and very beautiful.] HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert,...springest Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 pages
...assail'd The wreathed serpent, who did ever seek Upon his enemy's heart a mortal wound to wreak. THE SKYLARK. Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never...thou springest Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thon wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singeat. In the golden lightning Of the... | |
| Max Kaluza - 1911 - 422 pages
...the ocean-floods, The City's voice itself is soft like Solitude's, or Shelley's Skylark (ababsb6): Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert,...springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. For further variations of the Spenserian... | |
| Mark Bailey - 1880 - 80 pages
...smoothest and happiest ' median stress,' prolonged with swelling fulness on the emphatic words : — 4 " Hail to thee, blithe spirit, — Bird thou never wert,...strains of unpremeditated art. " Higher still and higher The Hue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. " In the golden lightning... | |
| Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 pages
..."Ozymandias" was first published by Shelley's friend Leigh Hunt in his periodical The Examiner (January 1818). To a Skylark Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou...springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken... | |
| 1875 - 398 pages
...Skylark." Shelley's wonderful lyric, confessedly the finer piece of the two., is well known : — " Hail to thee, blithe spirit, — Bird thou never wert...springest ; Like a cloud of fire The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest." Just as this passionately- throbbing... | |
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