 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,...  The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Page 543by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 708 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 pages
...that sorrow, As he was pashing it against a tree, I suddenly stept in. Ford (paraphrased from Strada). TO A SKYLARK. Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou...the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire ; The deep blue thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever, singest. In the golden lightening... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 pages
...admiration of the hearer. The above extract is from his address at Yale College, 1854. SECTION XXXIL 1 166. TO A SKYLARK. HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! — bird...full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. 2. Higher still, and higher, from the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire ; the blue deep thou... | |
 | Kate Gordon (of Fyvie.) - 1866 - 258 pages
...Inequality of margin. 3. A village of Holland. 4. A general total. .5. A savoury composition. XIV. " HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert,...full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. " All the earth and air With thy voice is loud As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon... | |
 | Penny readings - 1867 - 270 pages
...Skylark" and "The Cloud" are aa pure, as poetical, and as elevated as any similar poetry in the language.] HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert,...wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singcst. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float... | |
 | Moxon Edward and co - 208 pages
...recommend to mercy; — and hopes we shall be allowed our expenses. 89 TO A SKYLARK. By PB SHELLEY. I. HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert,...full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. II. Higher still and higher, From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1868 - 216 pages
...of the most beautiful pieces of poetry ever written, has thus celebrated the song of the bird : — Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert,...the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire ; The deep blue tUou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever, singest. All the earth and air... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...vision, or a waking dream ? Fled is that music : — do I wake or sleep ? 80 John Keats. CCXXIII ODE TO A SKYLARK. Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou...full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. 5 Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest, Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1868 - 366 pages
...Hail to thee, blithe Spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy fall heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher...thou springest : Like a cloud of fire The blue deep thon wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. What thou art we know not : What... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1868 - 544 pages
...That from heaven, or near it, pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. ii. Higher still, and higher, from the earth thou springest...the blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost spar, and soaring ever singest. in. In the golden lightning of the sunken sun, OVr which clouds are... | |
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