 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...dost float and run, Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. ***** Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I have never heard...wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. * * * * * We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain... | |
 | Woodland - 1868 - 186 pages
...flowers, All that ever was Joyous and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I have never heard...a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or trinmphal chmmt, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vauut — A thing wherein we feel there... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. 60 Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine: I have never heard...wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. 65 Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chaunt, Matched with thine, would be all But an empty vaunt — A... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1868 - 544 pages
...clear and fresh, thy music doth surpass. vn. Teach us, sprite or bird, what sweet thoughts are thine: J have never heard praise of love or wine That panted...of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, or triumphal chant, Matched with thine would be all but an empty vaunt, — A thing wherein we feel there is some... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...flowers, All that ever was Joyous and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass : Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine ; I have never heard...with thine would be all But an empty vaunt, — A t.tiing wherein we feel there is some hidden want. What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 pages
...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...of rapture so Divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chant, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt — A thing wherein we feel there is some... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 pages
...flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I have never heard...of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chant, Match'd with thine would be all But an empty vaunt, — A thing wherein we feel there is some... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 pages
...All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. Teach -us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine: I have never heard...a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphant chaunt, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt — A thing wherein we feel there... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...sent at once suggests its derivation, Lat. sentire, Fr. sentir (Trench). Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine ; I have never heard,...panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymenseal, Or triumphal chaunt, Matehed with thine would be all But an empty vaunt, — A thing wherein... | |
 | Class-book - 1869 - 344 pages
...All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. 13. Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I have never heard...wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. 14. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chant, Matched with thine, would be all But an empty vaunt — A... | |
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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. 
