 HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest,...  Golden Poems by British and American Authors - Page 80edited by - 1906 - 526 pagesFull view - About this book
 | W H Cordeaux - 1853 - 118 pages
...Shelley's ode to the Sky-lark is the most admired and read. I subscribe a few verses of thia fine poem. Higher still and higher, From the earth thou springest...singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float and run ; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart lu profuse strains of unpremeditated art. SHELLEY. 30 Higher still and higher, From the earth thou springest...singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, • O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run ; Like an unbodied joy whose race is... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...THE SKYLARK. HAIL to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourcst thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated...wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring over singost In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1853 - 596 pages
...still stream, Up the hill side • and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades,"— Keats. " Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest...singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest."— Shelley .MIDST the long reeds that o'er a Grecian stream Unto the faint wind sigh'd melodiously, And... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...That, as the world serves us, we may serve thee ; And both thy servants be. TO A SKYLARK. — Shelley. HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert,...singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run ; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...was ctnMvncd, July 8th, 1822, while returning from Leghorn to welcome his brother poet, Leigh Hunt. Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert,...singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float and run ; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1854 - 482 pages
...thou afforded bad men such music on earth .'" IZAAK W ALTOS. 1598-IG^J. TO THE SKYLARK. Hail to thce, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wer't. That from heaven,...soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning Of the setting sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run ; Like an unbodied joy whose... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - Country life - 1854 - 584 pages
...Walton. Let us now hear Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose ode "To a Skylark" is worthy of the bird itself. TO A SKYLARK. Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou...wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever aingest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are bright'ning Thou dost float... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - Country life - 1854 - 592 pages
...thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart lu profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still,...singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are bright'ning Thou dost float and run, Like an unbodied joy whose race is just... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Gift books - 1854 - 322 pages
...sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be . BY SHELtEY. / \ HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! ',.,, .'j Bird thou never wert, -'.""",. That from heaven, or...Higher still and higher, From the earth thou springest y Like a cloud of fire ; . „ < ^i The blue deep thou wingest, C . . ,' And singing still dost soar,... | |
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