 Leave to the nightingale her shady wood; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home!  The Christian Remembrancer - Page 461842Full view - About this book
 | Francis Trevelyan Buckland - 1863 - 298 pages
...Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with rapture more divine. Type of the wise, who soar — but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home." Mrs. Hemans indulges in much the same vein : — " Oh ! skylark, for thy wing ! Thou bird... | |
 | Charles Smith Cheltnam - 1863 - 176 pages
...Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony with rapture more divine. Type of the wise, who soar, but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.' Perhaps the noblest song that has yet been sung to the Skylark is Shelley's famous ode:... | |
 | 1863 - 888 pages
...Ethereal minstrel, pilgrim of tha sky ! that Wordsworth mentions, which is said to be Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of Heaven and home. Except now and then giving utterance to a sharp ' chirrup, chirrup,' as they chase each other... | |
 | Henrietta Wilson - 1863 - 218 pages
...its praise ; and Wordsworth concludes his lines to this bird by declaring it to be " Type of the wise who soar — but never roam, — True to the kindred points of heaven and home." The gradual bursting forth of buds and leaves on shrub and tree is a daily source of spring... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...more The sultry heats of day. SHENSTONE.— Nancy of the Vale, Verse 1. SKYLARK. — Type of the wise, who soar, but never roam ; True to the kindred points of heaven and home. WORDSWORTH. — To a Skylark. SLANDER— Slander Whose edge is sharper than the sword. SHARSPERE.... | |
 | 1863 - 982 pages
...Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine ; Type of the wise, who soar, but never roam — True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home ! W. Wordsworth CCXLI TO A SKYLARK ' AIL to thee, blithe Spirit I Bird thou never wert, That... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1863 - 432 pages
...Ethereal minstrel, pilgrim of the sky ! that Wordsworth mentions, which is said to be Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of Heaven and home. Except now and then giving utterance to a sharp ' chirrup, chirrup,' as they chase each other... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1863 - 330 pages
...Whence thou dost pour upon the earth a flood Of harmony, with rapture more divine. Type of the wise, who soar, but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home. The Ettrick Shepherd has bequeathed to posterity a glorious ode to the Skylark, which must... | |
 | Months - 1864 - 262 pages
...Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with rapture more divine : Type of the wise, who soar — but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home. BIRD of the wilderness, Blithesome and cumberless, Light be thy matin o'er moorland and lea... | |
 | Life-lights - 1864 - 348 pages
...Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine : Type of the wise, who soar, but never roam — True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home ! WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, 1770-1850. THE LILY. How wither'd, perish'd seems the form Of yon obscure... | |
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