 | Country life - 1856 - 482 pages
...earth ?" IZAAE W ALTON, 1593-1683. TO THE SKYLARK. Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never'wer't, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart...soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning Of the setting sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run ; Like an unbodied joy whose... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1857 - 374 pages
...unconscious hymn of praise and thanksgiving. TO THE SKYLARK. Hail to thee, blythe spirit ! Bird thon never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest...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... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...be my doom, Shall join my soul to thee. ADDISON. 9. — TO THE SKYLARK. HAIL to the blithe spirit 1 Bird thou never wert, That from heaven or near it,...singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. All the earth and air With thy voice is loud, As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon... | |
 | 1858 - 460 pages
...That, as the world serves us, we may serve thee ; And both thy servants be. TO A SKYLARK — Shelley. HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert,...Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou wingest, singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er... | |
 | Severn river - English poetry - 1859 - 408 pages
...о атроивос, TOV appev epvQpóarepvov avros enreiva. я. s. The Lark at Heaven's gate sings. Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert,...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... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 362 pages
...effusiveness of the Alexandrine, expresses the eagerness and continuity of the song of the lark .Lci<jh Hunt. HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert,...lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run, Like an embodied joy, whose race is just begun. The pale purple... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 pages
...lark — Leigh Hunt. HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, 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 embodied joy, whose race is just begun. The pale purple... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1860 - 450 pages
...secretly forgave him in the name of the Divine Forgiver of injuries. TO A SKYLARK— PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert,...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... | |
 | England - English poetry - 1860 - 532 pages
...but glean, Lay thy sheaf adown, and come, Share my harvest and my home. THOHAS Hooiv HAIL to thce, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven,...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... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...of these are marvellous for the force of their language and the purity of their tone.] 13^-' AIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from...singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. •M THE SKYLARK. Iii the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are bright'ning, Thou... | |
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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,... 
