 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy Drain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow, The world should listen then, as [ am listening now. SHELLEY. CHARLES LAMB. 43 Swler. WHEN maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 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 THE PRISONER OF CH1LLON. — Byron. SONNET ON CHILLON. THE PRISONER OF OHILLON. The heart which love... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1854 - 482 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. PIRCT BTMBI SHU.LIT. A LARK SINGING IN A RAINBOW. Fraught with a transient, frozen shower If a cloud... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - Country life - 1854 - 592 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. PEBCT BTSSHE SHELLET. SONGS OP SKY.LABKS. 211 TO A. SKY-LARK. Ethereal minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Gift books - 1854 - 322 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. irV TO VENUS. BT ALBERT PIKE. 0, THOU, most lovely and most beautiful ! Whether thy doves now lovingly... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That my brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. COWPEB. THIS distinguished poet was born in Hertfordshire, 1731, of a good family ; and, after a melancholy... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 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. If there be anywhere a companion poem to this, it is John Keats's " Ode to the Nightingale." Poor John... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1855 - 766 pages
...than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground XXI. Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...the world should listen then, as I am listening now. TO I FEAB thy kisses, gentle maiden, Thou needest not fear mine ; My spirit is too deeply laden Ever... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 510 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. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY A LARK SINGING IN A RAINBOW. Fraught with a transient, frozen shower If a cloud... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 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 THE PRISONER OF CH1LLON. — Byron. A FABLE. SONNET ON CHILLON. ETEKNAL spirit of the chainless mind... | |
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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... 
