 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1838 - 634 pages
...and fear ; If we were things bom Mot 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 scomer of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness... | |
 | William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever could come near. Better than all measures Of delight and sound, Better than all treasures That in books are...Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground WORDSWORTH. THE POET AND HIS POETRY. [WILLIAM WORDSWORTH is descended from a respectable family ; he... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 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...lips would flow, The world should listen then, as l am listening now. ODE TO LIBERTY. Yet freedom, yet, thy banner torn but flying, Btreoma like a thunder-storm... | |
 | 1839 - 790 pages
...fear ; If we were things born Not to -in -I a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever could come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures. That in hooks are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground. Teach me half the gladness That... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 402 pages
...fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should eome near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better...That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou seorner of the ground! Teaeh me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Sueh harmonious madness... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1842 - 440 pages
...that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better...poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half thy gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness, From my lips would flow, The world... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 484 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. Keats, born in 1796, died the year before Shelley, and, of course, at a still earlier age. But his... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...Better than all measures Of delight and sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thv lands fade that Spring so lately wove ; Each simple flower, which she had nursed in dew, Anemonies [From ' The Scnsitire Plant.'] A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with... | |
 | Literature - 1895 - 862 pages
...more keenly, that he is not the man to set it right. EDITH SELLERS. From The Argosy. A BIRD LYRIC. Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...world should listen, then, as I am listening now. So sang Shelley in his great birdsong, and such in substance has been the homage which the race of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever could come near. Better than all measures Of delight and the traveller, faint, and astray, The bright and the balmy effulgence of morn. See Tr scomer of the grouiMÍ ! Teach me half the gladness That thy braiu must know, Such harmonious madness... | |
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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... 
