 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
 | Laurence Goldstein - 1986 - 302 pages
...fret" of earthbound existence. In "To the Skylark" Wordsworth will call the bird "Type of the wise, who soar, but never roam - / True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home." But Keats does not describe birdflight as a commutation from higher to lower worlds. The... | |
 | Doris Eveline Faulkner Jones - 1982 - 244 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 ! " Shelley's "To a Skylark" is widely different in feeling, but he too seeks to create a... | |
 | R. P. Hewett - 1985 - 322 pages
...Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; 10 Type of the wise who soar, but never roam ; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home! Nutting It seems a day (I speak of one from many singled out) One of those heavenly days... | |
 | Dame Bird Scharlieb - 1925 - 434 pages
...the fireplace — stainless white marble, and bearing on its lintel the words : " Type of the wise, who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home." I knew that Mrs. Acland had just passed beyond the veil and in some manner I thought that... | |
 | 1897 - 672 pages
...that they had not far to go in search of a farm. They were a home loving race, types of the " Wise who soar, but never roam, True to the kindred points of Heaven and home." They were trusted by their landlords, and highly respected in the parish and neighbourhood... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...OBEV; OBNC; PoEL-4; PoRA; PPP; SCV; SoSe; TEP; TrGrPo; UnPo; WeW To a Skylark 148 Type of the wise, X+ . * . . and Home! (1. 17-18) EnRP; FaFP; GTBS; GTBS-P; PBBP; TrGrPo To Sleep 149 Come, blessed barrier between... | |
 | 1875 - 398 pages
...quieter gladness after its brief transfiguration to its nest upon the sod : — " Type of the wise who soar, but never roam, True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home. " Wordsworth read but few works of contemporary poets, but he did, as it happened, read some... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 1991 - 366 pages
...which occupied another day from Keswick to Buttermere and Crummock Water in my next. * Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home! (John O. Hayden, ed. , William Wordsworth: The Poems [New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980,2:613)... | |
 | D. M. R. Bentley - 1994 - 376 pages
...that might simply be an emblem of the emigrant's high hopes if it were not also a "Type of the wise who soar, but never roam, / True to the kindred points of heaven and home" (Wordsworth 2:141-42) and, thus, a comment on the dubious wisdom of his departure for the... | |
 | John Hollander - 1997 - 342 pages
...might rather say of fully self-conceived life— confounds the question, in being "Type of the wise who soar, but never roam, /True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home."14 The implication that a home, and an inconceivably distant point toward which imaginative... | |
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