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" Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine: I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. "
Gleanings from the Poets: For Home and School - Page 375
1854 - 430 pages
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The National Review, Volume 3

Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 512 pages
...winds deflower'/l, Till the scent it gives Makes faint with too much sweet these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened...Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass." In most poets imearthly beings are introduced to express peculiar removed essences of lyrical rapture...
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Lives of the Illustrious, Volumes 1-2

1856 - 754 pages
...winds deflowered, Till tho scent it gives Mikes faint with too much sweet these heavywinged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened...ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth snrpats Te«h mo half tho gladness That thy brain must know, S;ieh harmonious madness From my lips...
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Principles of Elocution

Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 pages
...As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. Teach us, 'sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are...a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chant, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt — A thing wherein we feel there...
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The Standard Fifth Reader: (first-class Standard Reader) : for Public and ...

Epes Sargent - 1857 - 488 pages
...when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. 4. Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are...wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. 5. Chorus hymene'al, Or triumphal chant, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt, A thing...
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The poetical reader, with notes and questions by A.W. Buchan

Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 pages
...winds deflowered, Till the scent it gives Makes faint with too much sweet these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened...and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. Teach me, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I have never heard Praise of love or wine That...
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The advanced prose and poetical reader, by A.W. Buchan

Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 362 pages
...winds deflowered, Till the scent it gives Makes faint with too much sweet these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened...and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. Teach me, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I have never heard Praise of love or wine That...
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Art, Literature, and the Drama

Margaret Fuller - 1860 - 486 pages
...winds deflowered, Till lhe scent it gives Makes faint with too much sweet, those heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened...rapture so divine, Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphant chaunt, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt— A thing wherein we feel there is some...
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Poets of England and America; being selections from the best authors of both ...

England - 1860 - 532 pages
...winds deflowered, Till the scent it gives Makes faint with too much sweet these heavy -winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened...a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chaunt, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt, — A thing wherein we feel there...
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Pearls from the poets: specimens selected, with biogr. notes, by H.W. Dulcken

Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...much sweet these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awaken'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and...a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chaunt, Matched with thine \vould be all But an empty vaunt — A thing wherein we feel there...
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The Ladies' Reader: Designed for the Use of Ladies' Schools and Family ...

John William Stanhope Hows - 1860 - 450 pages
...much sweet these heavy winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakeu'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear and fresh,...What sweet thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Chorus Hymeneal, Or triumphal chant, Match'd with thiue would be all But an empty Taunt — A thing...
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