| 1846 - 730 pages
...which we have been endeavoring to illustrate — in one of the concluding stanzas to the Skylark! " Better than all measures, Of delightful sound ; Better...Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground." But, ah, wo is me! Weep now, Urania — thou eldest muse — for aim ! That harmony paused — " And... | |
| Gem book - 1846 - 398 pages
...— 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...Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! PB SHELLEY. SKYLARK. BIRD of the wilderness Blithsome and cumberless, Light be thy matin o'er moorland... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 402 pages
...fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. zx. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better...found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the around ." XX1. Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my... | |
| Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo - 1846 - 342 pages
...for while he is comfortable in the idea that I favor him, my thoughts are singing Shelley's verse : 1 Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better...That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scomer of the ground.' Now, the fact is, Nightingale never pretends to any sky-larking — he never... | |
| Margaret Fuller - 1846 - 382 pages
...exuberance of fancy, was incalculably superior to Wordsworth ? But mark their inferences. Shelley. " Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness Prom my lips would flow The world should listen, then, as I am listening now." Wordsworth. " What though... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joys we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better...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
...sincerest laughter, With some pain is fraught : Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better...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... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 pages
...delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scomer of the ground Teach me half the gladness That thy...The world should listen then, as I am listening now PoeB are on this cold earth. As chameleons might be, Hidden from their early birth In a cave beneath... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 pages
...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...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, Such harmonious madness... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1849 - 406 pages
...fear ; If we were tilings 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...That in books are found. Thy skill to poet were, thou scorncr of the ground ! XXI. Teach me half the gladness That thy bram must know, Such harmonious madness... | |
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