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
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1863 - 330 pages
...a flood of sweet melody ; to hear the little brown Lark, high up in the sunshine, a mere speck — Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing...wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not One would indeed imagine, with Jeremy Taylor, that it had ' learned music and motion of an angel.'... | |
 | George Fleming - China - 1863 - 620 pages
...lively abandon — the thrilling melodious gusts descending from the heavenly promenade like those of ' A high-born maiden in a palace tower, Soothing her...With music sweet as love, which overflows her bower.' Soon the glad song drives away one-half of our fatigue as we plod on, eager for the first inn, where... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 264 pages
...Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden In the hght of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world...sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not. Like a glow-worm golden In a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholdeu Its aerial hue Amongst the flowers and grass,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...rainbow clouds there flow not drops so bright tc see, As rrom thy presence showers a rain of melody. 8. Like a poet hidden in the light of thought, Singing...hymns unbidden, till the world is wrought To sympathy wife hopes and fears it heeded not. 9. Like a high-born maiden in a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden... | |
 | George Fleming - China - 1863 - 608 pages
...melodious gusts descending from the heavenly promenade like those of 'A high-born maiden in a palace towei\ Soothing her love-laden soul, in secret hour, With music sweet as love, which overflows her bower.' Soon the glad song drives away one-half of our fatigue as we plod on, eager for the first inn, where... | |
 | 1864 - 938 pages
...intense nationality which characterizes Polish poetry. That stanza in Shelley's " Ode to a Skylark "— " Like a poet hidden, In the light of thought, Singing...To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not"— is peculiarly applicable to the Polish poet, " pouring his full heart," full of anything but the skylark's... | |
 | 1864 - 536 pages
...intense nationality which characterizes Polish poetry. That stanza in Shelley's " Ode to a Skylark "— " Like a poet hidden, In the light of thought, Singing...To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not"— is peculiarly applicable to the Polish poet, " pouring his full heart," full of anything but the skylark's... | |
 | William Henry Hall - Poland - 1864 - 372 pages
...intense nationality which characterises Polish poetry. That stanza in Shelley's " Ode to a Skylark "— " Like a poet hidden, In the light of thought, Singing...wrought, To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not " — is peculiarly applicable to the Polish poet, " pouring his full heart," full of anything but... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1864 - 324 pages
...curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all." d. " Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting." e. " Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing...wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not." 5. a. Mr. Collier speaks of the following lines of Marlow as Alexandrines. Is he right in doing so... | |
 | Philip Wharton (pseud. [i.e. John Cockburn Thomson.]), John Cockburn Thomson - 1864 - 368 pages
...just the place in which to find some quiet country girl, some " High born maiden In a palace-tower Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music sweet as love which overflows her bower." " Bah ! ten chances to one it contains none but some cider-bibbing farmer, who rents the mansion of... | |
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