| Half hours - 1847 - 614 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,...world should listen then, as I am listening now." SHELLEY. 59.— GIFFORD'S ACCOUNT OF HIS EARLY DAYS. [THE history of men who have overleaped " poverty's... | |
| Robert Turnbull - 1847 - 396 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. Inferior to this, but still very beautiful, more natural, and more especially Scottish, are the following... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 pages
...Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, tlmu scorner of the ground! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...flow, The world should listen then, as I am listening ODE TO LIBEETY. Yet freedom, yet, thy banner torn but flying, Stream» like a thunder-storm against... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1849 - 406 pages
...Thy skill to poet were, thou scorncr of the ground ! XXI. Teach me half the gladness That thy bram must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. ODE TO LIBERTY. Yet freedom, yet, thy banner torn bat flying, Streams like a thumler-slorm against... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1851 - 282 pages
...Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!3 Teach me half the gladness, That thy brain must know;...the spring of 1820," says Mrs. Shelley, " we spent a wee* or two near Leghorn, borrowing the house of some friends, who were absent on a journey to England.... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! 8 Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. SHELLEY. 1. " Shellev chose the measure of this poem with great felicity. The earnest flurry of the... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...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... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...Better than all treasures That in books arc found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! obert Chambers u I am listening DOW. [From ' The Sauitite Pioirf.'] A Sensitire Plant in a garden grew. And the young... | |
| Ann Jane - 1851 - 964 pages
...cloud of fire The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. " Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...harmonious madness From my lips would flow— The world would listen then, as I am listening now !" The home-hearth, too, where we were accustomed to receive... | |
| Margaret Fuller - 1852 - 364 pages
...exuberance cf fancy, was incalculably superior to Wordsworth 1 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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