 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, And...  The Book of Georgian Verse - Page 570edited by - 1909 - 1313 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...Sic ego deficiens aegra te voce vocavi, Tuqve mihi fautrix tempus in omne venis. The Skylark. Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from...wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float... | |
 | 1848 - 700 pages
...graceful lines of Shelley, perhaps the most poetical he ever wrote, recurred to our memory — " Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert ; That...wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest." Alas! that the sentiment of life — a pleasant pastime, the realities a bitter pang —... | |
 | William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I rise and upbuild it again. THE SKY-LARK. Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from...wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singcst. In the golden lighting Of the sunken sun. O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 348 pages
...of thee, beloved Night ; Swift be thine approaching flight, Come soon, soon ! TO A SEYLARK. HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from...wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 412 pages
...be thine approaching flight, Come soon, soon ! TO A SKYLARK. HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird them never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest...wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...not fear mine ; Innoeent is the heart's devotion With which I worship thine. TO A SKYLARK. HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from...wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 484 pages
...shorter poems — his Ode, or Hymn, as it may be called, ' To a Skylark,' written in 1820 : — Hail to thee, blithe spirit, Bird thou never wert, That from...wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, _ Thou dost... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I rise and upbuild it again. To a Skylark. Hail to uU W # MlmO%JÇe ɚ m GM㭇 j qbo / M [n ( 0&I )SX i.../+ Rs { nY h T d ɟ " Dl:Ι]ەW \L-m wingeet, And singing etill dost soar, and soaring ever, singest. In the golden lightening Of the sunken... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 292 pages
...purposes of Beneficence with a calmness befitting his knowledge and his love. TO A SKYLARK. Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from...wingest, And singing, still dost soar : and soaring, ever singest In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...it. Their bright Stream like a comet's flashing hair : they all Sweep onward. TO A SKYLARK. HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from...wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float... | |
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