What thou art we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden, In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought... The Book of Gems: Wordsworth to Bayly - Page 39edited by - 1838Full view - About this book
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...showers a rain of melody. vin. Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unhidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and...fears it heeded not: Like a high-born maiden In a palaee tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music sweet as love, which overflows... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 404 pages
...and heaven is overflowed. What thou art we know not ; What is most like thee 1 From rainbow elouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy...Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hynma unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not: Like a high-born... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poets, English - 1840 - 396 pages
...is most like thee ! From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden In the...of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world ¡я wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not: Like a high-born maiden In a palace towor,... | |
 | Henry Alford - Greek poetry - 1841 - 272 pages
...gathering together things seemly and beautiful, and in the language of a modern poet,* • • bidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till...wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not. In this our first chapter we have been dealing (of necessity) with general subjects. We propose leading... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 486 pages
...is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden In the...bower : Like a glow-worm golden In a dell of dew, V Scattering unbeholden Its aerial hue Among the flowers and grass, which screen it from the view:... | |
 | American periodicals - 1895 - 862 pages
...points of heaven and home, while in the same bird Shelley recognizes a spirit akin to his own : — A poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns...world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heedeth not. Again, to Milton the nightingale's " liquid notes," First heard before the shallow cuckoo's... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody Like a poet hidden In the...hopes and fears it heeded not Like a high-born maiden 1 In a palace tower^ Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music sweet as love, which overflows... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody Like a poet hidden In the...hopes and fears it heeded not Like a high-born maiden 2 In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music sweet as love, which overflows... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 560 pages
...is most like thee ! From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden In the...sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not : Like a high-horn maiden In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music sweet as... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody Like a poet hidden In the...wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not IX. Like a high-born maiden* In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music... | |
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