 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...Both seem soaring upward to Heaven, and pouring forth an unconscious hymn of praise and thanksgiving. TO THE SKYLARK. Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird...singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run; Like an unbodied joy whoso race is just... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - English literature - 1852 - 458 pages
...we heard the carolling of the skylark, which inspired one of the most beautiful of his poems." TO A SKYLARK. " Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou...which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float and run ; Like an embodied joy, whose race has just begun. " The pale purple even Melts around thy flight ;... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...ask the boon I ask of thee, beloj/ed Night; Swift be thine approaching flight, Come soon, soon! To a Skylark. Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never...the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are bright'ning, The pale purple even Melts around thy flight; Like a star of heaven, In the broad day-light Thou art... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - American literature - 1852 - 364 pages
...river, Pouring out praise to the Almighty Giver, Joy and jollity be with us both." Hear Shelley. s Hail to thee, blithe spirit \ Bird thou never wert,...wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singesto In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 588 pages
...spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In ] i ri i i'n si> strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher,...the golden lightning Of the sunken sun. O'er which clonda are brightening, Thou dost float and run ; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. The... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1853 - 378 pages
...pouring forth an unconscious hymn of praise and thanksgiving. TO THE SKYLABK. Hail to thee, blythe spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or...lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run, Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. The pale purple... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - English poetry - 1853 - 334 pages
...by deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be. TO A SKY-LARK. BY SHELLEY. HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert,...wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring eversingest, In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost... | |
 | W H Cordeaux - 1853 - 118 pages
...Shelley's ode to the Sky-lark is the most admired and read. I subscribe a few verses of thia fine poem. Higher still and higher, From the earth thou springest...which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float and run ; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. All the earth and air With thy voice is loud As, when... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart lu profuse strains of unpremeditated art. SHELLEY. 30 Higher still and higher, From the earth thou springest...lightning Of the sunken sun, • O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run ; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. The pale purple... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...was ctnMvncd, July 8th, 1822, while returning from Leghorn to welcome his brother poet, Leigh Hunt. Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert,...which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float and run ; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. The pale purple even Melts around thy flight ; Like... | |
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HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest,... 
