 | Henry D. Moore - 1850 - 276 pages
...wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears, it heeded not. Teach me half the gladness That thy heart must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow, The world would listen then, as I am listening now." Read his poem — " The Cloud — " of which the following... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...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 treasures • That in books are found,...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
...come near. Better than all measures Of delight and sound, Better than all treasures That in books arc , a * u I am listening DOW. [From ' The Sauitite Pioirf.'] A Sensitire Plant in a garden grew. And the young... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 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...Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! 8 Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1851 - 282 pages
...feaf ; 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...found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!3 Teach me half the gladness, That thy brain must know; Such harmonious madness From my lips... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 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...The world should listen then as I am listening now. The " Adonais," written in memory of Keats, one year before Shelley's own death, is not only remarkable... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 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...world should listen then , as I am listening now. Coleridge. Samuel Taylor Coleridge ward am 20. October 1772 zu Ottery St. Mary in Devonshire geboren,... | |
 | 1852 - 318 pages
...Rain-awakened flowers. All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass ^ ***** Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. It is not within our province to dwell critically upon Shelley s writings. They have now been nearly... | |
 | 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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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 poet... 
