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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. "
The Rhyme and Reason of Country Life, Or, Selections from Fields Old and New - Page 105
by Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 428 pages
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume 2

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1855 - 770 pages
...deflowered, Till the scent it gives Makes faint with too much sweet these heavywinged thieves. xn. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened...Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. XIII. Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I have never heard Praise of love or...
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Gleanings from the Poets: For Home and School

Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...embowered In its own green leaves, By warm winds deflowered, Till the scent it gives TO A SKYLARK. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened...ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpassTeach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Praise of love...
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Gleanings from the Poets, for Home and School

American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...scent it gives TO A SKVLARK. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Ham-awakened flowers, AH 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 Praise of love or wine That...
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The National Review, Volume 3

Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1856 - 512 pages
...warm winds deflower'/l, Till the scent it gives Makes faint with too much sweet these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling...Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass." In most poets imearthly beings are introduced to express peculiar removed essences of lyrical rapture...
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Lives of the Illustrious, Volumes 1-2

1856 - 754 pages
...By warm winds deflowered, Till tho scent it gives Mikes faint with too much sweet these heavywinged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling...ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth snrpats Te«h mo half tho gladness That thy brain must know, S;ieh harmonious madness From my lips...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 1

Half hours - 1856 - 650 pages
...much sweet these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Bain-awakened 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 Praise of love or wine That...
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Select specimens of English poetry

Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...much sweet these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Eain-awakened 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...
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Bechstein's Handbook of chamber and cage birds [tr. by W.E. Shuckard] ed. by ...

Johann Matthaeus Bechstein - 1856 - 272 pages
...us of the beautiful description of the poet: — ** Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling prass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy Music doth surpass." VIII.— THE SISKIN OR ABERDEVINE. THIS pretty and lively bird is less valued as a cage songster in...
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The National Review, Volume 3

Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1856 - 512 pages
...scent it gives Makes faint with too uftch sweet these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass." On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, In most poets unearthly beings are introduced to express...
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Gleanings from the Poets for Home and School

1858 - 460 pages
...warm winds deflowered, Till the scent it gives Makes faint with too much sweet those heavy- winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling...and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Praise of I9ve or wine , Tliat...
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