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 - 1865 - 744 pages
...presence showers a rain of melody. TO A SK5TLARE. 505 Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Sinring hymns unbidden, Till the world is 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 •... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1866 - 412 pages
...art we know not ; what is most like thee ? From rainbow-clouds there flow not drops so bright to see, Like a poet hidden in the light of thought, Singing...fears it heeded not : Like a high-born maiden in a palace-tower, Soothing her love-laden soul in secret hour With music sweet as love, which overflows... | |
 | Anne Maria Hampton Brewster - American fiction - 1866 - 456 pages
...but now she utters a peal of glad music, and " showers a rain of melody," without stint or limit, " Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing...wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not." But why is the nightingale called " love-lorn " ? That song is full of joy and rapture. I know Shakespeare... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...rainbow clouds there flow not drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. 8. Like a poet hidden in the light of thought, Singing...wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not. 9. Like a high-born maiden in a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden soul in secret hour With music... | |
 | Anne Maria Hampton Brewster - American fiction - 1866 - 468 pages
..." showers a rain of melody," without stint or limit, " Like a poet hidden In the light of thonght, Singing hymns unbidden Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not." But why is the nightingale called " love-lorn " ? That song is full of joy and rapture. I know Shakespeare... | |
 | Medicine - 1866 - 728 pages
...which obscured, but did not diminish his power. " Like a poet hidden lu the light of thought, Sinking hymns unbidden Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and rears it needed not," so Sir Charles Hastings had laboured quietly and often unseen, but yet achieving... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1867 - 360 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-bom maiden In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music sweet as... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 332 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. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Kain-a waken' d flowers, All that ever was Joyous,... | |
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