| English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...and sea, If to the human mind's imaginings Silence and solitude were vacancy ? SIIELLEV. THE SKYLARK. HAIL to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourcst thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher, From the... | |
| Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 pages
...was ctnMvncd, July 8th, 1822, while returning from Leghorn to welcome his brother poet, Leigh Hunt. Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert,...full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher, From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou wingest,... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 584 pages
...now hear Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose ode "To a Skylark" is worthy of the bird itself. TO A SKYLARK. Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert,...full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still, and higher, From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou wingest,... | |
| 1854 - 456 pages
...That, as the world serves us, we may serve thee ; And both thy servants be. TO A SKYLARK. — Shelley. HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert,...full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou wingest,... | |
| Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 pages
...thou afforded bad men such music on earth .'" IZAAK W ALTOS. 1598-IG^J. TO THE SKYLARK. Hail to thce, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wer't. That from heaven,...full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher, From the earth thou springest, Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou wingest,... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1854 - 322 pages
...sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be . BY SHELtEY. / \ HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! ',.,, .'j Bird thou never wert, -'.""",. That from heaven, or...full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher, From the earth thou springest y Like a cloud of fire ; . „ < ^i The blue... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 592 pages
...now hear Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose ode "To a Skylark" is worthy of the bird itself. TO A SKYLARK. Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert,...That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart lu profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still, and higher, From the earth thou springest Like... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 pages
...upward to Heaven, and pouring forth an unconscious hymn of praise and thanksgiving. TO THE SKYLARK. Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert,...full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher, From the earth thou springest, Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou wingest,... | |
| Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 510 pages
...heaven, when thou afforded bad men such music on earth ?" IZAAE WALTON, 1593-16S3. TO THE SKYLARK. Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wer't,...full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher, From the earth thou springest, Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou wingest,... | |
| Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 478 pages
...heaven, when thou afforded bad men such music on earth :" IZAAE WALTON, 159S-16Ss. TO THE SKYLARK. Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wer't....full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher, From the earth thou springest, Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou wingest,... | |
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