| 1839 - 790 pages
...scorner of the ground. Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madne** From my lips would flow. The world should listen then, as I am listening now. And is not this " harmonious madness?" Is not this "clear joyance?" Many hare been the " odes to a... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 402 pages
...to poet were, thou seorner of the ground! Teaeh me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Sueh harmonious madness From my lips would flow, The world should listen then, as I am listening ODE TO LIBERTY. Yet freedom, yet, thy banner torn but flying. Streams like a thunder-storm against... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1842 - 440 pages
...treasures, That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half thy gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE was born on the 20th of October, 1772, at Ottcry St. Mary, in Devonshire. Hit... | |
| George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 484 pages
...Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. Keats, born in 1796, died the year before Shelley, and, of course, at a still earlier age. But his... | |
| Literature - 1895 - 862 pages
...more keenly, that he is not the man to set it right. EDITH SELLERS. From The Argosy. A BIRD LYRIC. Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...world should listen, then, as I am listening now. So sang Shelley in his great birdsong, and such in substance has been the homage which the race of... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thv skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! e flower, which she had nursed in dew, Anemonies [From ' The Scnsitire Plant.'] A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scomer of the grouiMĶ ! Teach me half the gladness That thy braiu n Eden's first bloom ! On the cold check of death...roses are blending, And beauty immortal awakes from [From ' Tlie Sensitive Plant.'] A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew. And the young winds fed it with... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 372 pages
...than all treasures Tfat in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground I* XXI. Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know. Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow, Tfk world should listen then, as I am listening now. "In the spring of 1820," says Mrs. Shelley, "we... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 402 pages
...than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the around ." XX1. Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. house of some friends, who were absent on a journey to England. It was on a beautiful summer evening,... | |
| Sarah Margaret Ossoli (march.) - 1846 - 182 pages
...exuberance of fancy, was incalculably superior to Wordsworth ? But mark their inferences. Shelley. " Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...world should listen, then, as I am listening now." Wordsworth. " What though my course be rugged and uneven, To prickly moors and dusty ways confined,... | |
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