 HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy 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,...  Papers on literature and art - Page 70by Sarah Margaret Ossoli (march.) - 1846Full view - About this book
 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - 1801 - 368 pages
...mihi fautrix tempus in omne venis. The Skylark. Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart...lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run, Like an unbodied joy, whose race is just begun. The pale purple... | |
 | 1832 - 1102 pages
...1831. . THE SWAN AND THE SKYLARK. BY MRS HEBIANS. Hail to thee, blithe -pirn ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart, In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. SHKLI.EY. MIDST the long reeds that o'er a Grecian stream Unto the faint wind sigh'd melodiously, And... | |
 | 1824 - 452 pages
...golden-crowned wren (motacilla regulus) begins its song. The lark, also, must not be forgotten : — In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which...are bright'ning, Thou dost float and run, Like an embodied joy whose race is just begun. The pale purple even Melts around thy flight; Like a star of... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1826 - 156 pages
...blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profusa strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of 6re ; The blue deep thou wingest, .And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...Under the waters of Hie earth again. TO A SKYLARK. HAIL to thee blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart...strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher Prom the earth thou springest jLike a cloud of fire," The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still... | |
 | 1848 - 700 pages
...poetical he ever wrote, recurred to our memory — " Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert ; That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart...singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest." Alas! that the sentiment of life — a pleasant pastime, the realities a bitter pang — should be... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...again. TO A SKYLARK. HAIL to ihee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it. wingeet, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest In the golden lightning Of the «unken... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart [art. In profuse strains of unpremeditated Higher still and higher, From the earth thou springest...lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. The pale purple... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 442 pages
...Shelley has some exquisite lines to a sky-lark : — Hail to thee, blithe spirit ; Bird thou never wert, That from heaven or near it, Pourest thy full heart...unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the cloud ihou springest, Like a cloud of fire ; The deep blue thou wingest, And singing .still doit soar... | |
 | 1832 - 1042 pages
...1831. THE SWAN AND THE SKYLARK. BY SIRS HEMANS. Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart. In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. SHEL7-EV. MIDST the long reeds that o'er a Grecian stream Unto the faint wind sigh'd melodiously, And... | |
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