 | Thomas Budd Shaw - English literature - 1849 - 478 pages
...fervour, in the fresh strains of "our Father Chaucer:" — CHAP. ii.J CHAUCER: HOUSE OF FAME. 41 " Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened...Joyous and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass!" We have mentioned the anachronism of plan in this poem ; it abounds in others no less extraordinary.... | |
 | English literature - 1849 - 470 pages
...with other beautiful things, says, — " Sound of vernal flowers On the twinkling grass, Rain awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous and clear and fresh, thy music doth surpass." The lines themselves have the very melody of the showers they describe, and show how highly he appreciated... | |
 | Spring flowers, S. P. - 1849 - 178 pages
...much sweet these heavywinged 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. Shelley. THE LADY OF THE GARDEN. A ladv, the wonder of her kind, Whose form was upborne hy a lovelv... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 608 pages
...strains of " our Fath Chaucer :" — " Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Bain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass ! " We have mentioned the anachronism of plan in this poen it abounds in others no less extraordinary.... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1849 - 406 pages
...these heavvwinged thieves. XII. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened (lowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surjiass. Teach UK, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I have never heard Praise of love... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...By 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...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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...which screen it from the view: Like a rose embowered In its own green leaves, By warm winds deflowered, Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass. Rain-awakened...and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. Teach us, sprite or bird, • What sweet thoughts are thine: I have never heard Praise of love or wine That... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1851 - 282 pages
...winds deflowered Till the scent it gives Makes faint with too much sweet these heavy-winged thievf* Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surf ast i iii. Teach me, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : i tave never heard Praise... | |
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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. 
