What thou art we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought... A Household Book of English Poetry - Page 2851870 - 438 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, A« from thy presence showers a rain of melody. rs Like a high-born maiden In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music sweet... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, AH from thy presence showers a rain of melody. hearted wretch ! Cold and yet cheerful: messenger...of joy to some ; To him indifferent whether grief o Like a high-born maiden In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music sweet... | |
| George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 484 pages
...one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. What thou art we know not : What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there...see As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy... | |
| Literature - 1895 - 862 pages
...points of heaven and home, while in the same bird Shelley recognizes a spirit akin to his own : — A poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns...world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heedeth not. Again, to Milton the nightingale's " liquid notes," First heard before the shallow cuckoo's... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 292 pages
...rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, Aafrom thy presence showers a rain of melody Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing...wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not. Like a high-born maiden* In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. What thou art we know not. What is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there...see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. What thou art we know not. What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there...see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflow'd. What thou art we know not ; What is most like thee ! From rainbow clouds there...see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 372 pages
...lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. VIi. What thou art we know not? What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there...see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. VIII. ' Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. What thou art we know not. What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there...see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy... | |
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