Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine! I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Miscellaneous Poems - Page 130by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1826 - 144 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alexander Winton Buchan - 1861 - 128 pages
...these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Kain-awaken'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. Teach me, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I have never heard Praise of love or wine That... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 578 pages
...these heavy-winged thieves : Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous and clear and fresh, thy music...love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chant, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt —... | |
| John Alfred Langford - 1862 - 310 pages
...rosy-winged thieves. " Sound of vernal showers, On the twinkling grass, Kain-awaken'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass." O poet, how truly hadst thou lived the life and felt the feelings of the poet-bird ! There he is, still... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...heavy-winged thieves. " Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass." Z In the Cloud, by the same poet, the imagery is partly fantastic, partly imaginative, as may be seen... | |
| Henry Pitman - 1863 - 780 pages
...warm winds deflowered, Till the scent it gives Makes faint with too much sweet these heavy -winged thieves : Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling...love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chaunt, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt, —... | |
| 1863 - 392 pages
...these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music...love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal. Or triumphal chaunt, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt —... | |
| John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 pages
...these heavy winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music...love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chant, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt —... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1863 - 564 pages
...these heavy-winged thieves : Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous and clear and fresh, thy music...love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chant, Matched with thine would be all But! an empty vaunt —... | |
| James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 264 pages
...these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal sheers On the twinkling gu.ss, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music...love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would... | |
| 1863 - 438 pages
...these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awaken'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music...us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : 1 I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus... | |
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