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" Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear: If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to... "
Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ... - Page 221
by Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 255 pages
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Calcutta Monthly Journal and General Register ...

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...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

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...
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Gems of the Modern Poets: With Biographical Notices

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...
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Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England ..., Volumes 5-6

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...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 206

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...
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Cyclopędia of English literature, Volume 2

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...
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Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

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...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

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...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

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,...
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Papers on literature and art, Part 1

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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