| 1832 - 1102 Seiten
...Glasgow, December 24<A, 1831. . THE SWAN AND THE SKYLARK. BY MRS HEBIANS. Hail to thee, blithe -pirn ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it,...full heart, In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. SHKLI.EY. MIDST the long reeds that o'er a Grecian stream Unto the faint wind sigh'd melodiously, And... | |
| 1824 - 452 Seiten
...golden-crowned wren (motacilla regulus) begins its song. The lark, also, must not be forgotten : — In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float and run, Like an embodied joy whose race is just begun. The pale purple... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1826 - 156 Seiten
...Like a sister and brother The child and the ocean still smile on each other, \Yhilst TO A SKYLARK. HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert,...from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profusa strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 Seiten
...speed, And bow their burning crest, and glide in fire Under the waters of Hie earth again. TO A SKYLARK. HAIL to thee blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert,...strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher Prom the earth thou springest jLike a cloud of fire," The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still... | |
| 1848 - 700 Seiten
...those graceful lines of Shelley, perhaps the most poetical he ever wrote, recurred to our memory — " Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert...singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest." Alas! that the sentiment of life — a pleasant pastime, the realities a bitter pang — should be... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 Seiten
...from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again. TO A SKYLARK. HAIL to ihee, Higher still and higher, From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou wingeet,... | |
| John Timbs - 1832 - 442 Seiten
...pretensions to the hilarity of the former. The ill-fated Shelley has some exquisite lines to a sky-lark : — Hail to thee, blithe spirit ; Bird thou never wert,...unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the cloud ihou springest, Like a cloud of fire ; The deep blue thou wingest, And singing .still doit soar... | |
| 1832 - 1042 Seiten
...periodicals. I am, &c. JAMES M'QuEEN. Glasgow, December 1lth, 1831. THE SWAN AND THE SKYLARK. BY SIRS HEMANS. Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert,...full heart. In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. SHEL7-EV. MIDST the long reeds that o'er a Grecian stream Unto the faint wind sigh'd melodiously, And... | |
| Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - 1834 - 374 Seiten
...over the still stream, Up the hill-side ; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades. KEATS. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest...singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. SHELLEY. MIDST the long reeds that o'er a Grecian stream Unto the feint wind sigh'd melodiously, And... | |
| 1834 - 764 Seiten
...reluctant from the very bosom of the sky. moonlight, just yielding to the break Hail to thec, blythe spirit. Bird thou never wert ; That from Heaven, or...full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art ! Hail, also, to the radiant tresses of the morn, now emulous of Nora of the amber hair, for day U... | |
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