...of these ire marvellous for the force of their language and the purity of their tone.] ? V (The to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from...full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. \; « \i [Of the poetry of PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY it is difficult to speak without a mournful feeling,...

...smoothest and happiest ' median stress,' prolonged with swelling fulness on the emphatic words : — «. " Hail to thee, blithe spirit, — Bird thou never wert,...thou springest ; Like a cloud of fire. The blue deep them wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. " In the golden lightning Of the...

...wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. n. Higher still and higher, From the earth thou springest...singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. IIL In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and...

...song it is, as it darts straight up into the sky, or rises in spiral circles until quite out of sight! "Higher still and higher, From the earth thou springest...singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. " — Shelley. One can hardly believe that what seems a spirit of the air is only the little brown...

...circumambient darkness, And pearly battlements around Looked o'er the immense of heaven. TO A SKYLARK. L HAIL to thee, blithe spirit, • Bird thou never wert,...full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. IL Higher still and higher, From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou...

...billows." 12. " The son of Hakon Jarl A death drink salt as the sea, Pledges to thee Olaf the king !" 13. " Hail to thee blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert,...full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art." EH 355. " Our stage precariously subsists too long On French translation and Italian song." 1. " And...

...forgave him in the name of the Divine Forgiver of injuries. TO A SKYLARK.— PEECT BYBSHE SHELLET. Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert,...wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singeat In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float...

...Heaven, and pouring forth an unconscious hymn of praise and thanksgiving. TO THE SKYLARK. Hail to thce, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven,...singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. u O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just...

...The speciality of the lark is to sing when upon the wing, so that another poet well observes : — "Higher still, and higher, From the earth thou springest...singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest." SHELLEY. Vast flocks of these birds cross over after snow, and fly in a southwest direction. The winter...

...The speciality of the lark is to sing when upon the wing, so that another poet well observes : — " Higher still, and higher, From the earth thou springest...singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest." SHELLEY. Vast flocks of these birds cross over after snow, and fly in a southwest direction. The winter...