 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1855 - 474 pages
...poet were, thou scorncr of the ground ! XXI. Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must knov/, Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow, The world should listen then, as I am listening 'TO I FEAK thy kisses, gentle maiden, Thou needest not fear mine ; I fear thy mien, thy tones, thy... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Conduct of life - 1856 - 368 pages
...alone are like a song at heaven's gates, might not alone the poet, but the wisest of mortals, say, " Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know...world should listen then, as I am listening now." But this common thought of lovers and of our poor human ity, that prompts to tolerance, is not only... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1856 - 512 pages
...Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know...world should listen then, as I am listening now." We can hear that the poetry of Keats is a rich, composite, voluptuous harmony; that of Shelley a clear... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 pages
...better than all treasures that in books are found, thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness that thy brain must know;...the world should listen then, as I am listening now. XXXIX.— HYMN OF THE MORAVIAN NUNS, ON CONSECRATING PULASKI'S BANNER.— LmgJeOaus. WHEN the dying... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1860 - 522 pages
...are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorncr of the ground ! :- .•' Teach me half the gladneM That thy brain must know, . Such harmonious madness...flow, The world should listen then, as I am listening i . .' i OH I THERE ARE SPIRITS. Oh ! there are spirits in the air, And genii of the evening breeze.... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorncr of the ground ! 3 Teach me half the gladness That thy bruin must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. SHELLEY. l. " Shelley chose the measure of this poem with great felicity. The earnest burry of the... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground 1 Teach me half the gladness , That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. Abridged from. SHELLEY. 10. — HOPE, THE FRIEND OF THE BRAVE. FRIEND of the brave ! in peril's darkest'... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 pages
...Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. HOPE TRIUMPHANT IN DEATH. CAMPBELL. UNFADING HOPE ! when life's last embers burn — When soul to soul,... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 362 pages
...than all treasures . That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou soorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. HOPE TRIUMPHANT IN DEATH. CAMPBELL. UNFADING HOPE ! when life's last embers burn — When soul to soul,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...Thy skill to poet were, thou seorner of the ground!* Teach me half the gladness, That thy brain mutt know; Such harmonious madness from my lips would flow, The world should listen then, as I am listening nao " In the spring of 1820," says Mrs. Shelley, " we spent a wee* or two near Leghorn, borrowing the... | |
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Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear: If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to... 
