| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1860 - 522 Seiten
...us, sprite or bird, What sweet thought* are thine ; I have never heard, Praise of love or wine \in That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.' Chorus hymeneal, '• Or triumphal chnunt, Matched with thine would he all •' ' But «n empty vaunt,— A thing wherein we feel there... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 Seiten
...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... | |
| Johann Matthaeus Bechstein - 1856 - 272 Seiten
...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... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 512 Seiten
...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... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 Seiten
...As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. Teach us, 'sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are...of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chant, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt — A thing wherein we feel there is some... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1857 - 488 Seiten
...when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. 4. Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are...wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. 5. Chorus hymene'al, Or triumphal chant, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt, A thing... | |
| 1858 - 460 Seiten
...those heavy- winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music...thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Praise of I9ve or wine , Tliat panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphant chant,... | |
| Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 Seiten
...these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-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... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 Seiten
...me, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : • »ave never heard Praise of love or wine Fhat panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chaunt, Match'd with thine would be all But ar °r™.pty vaunt — A thin '[ wherein we feel there is some... | |
| Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 362 Seiten
...these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-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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