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
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poetry - 1994 - 752 pages
...is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven 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... | |
| Viśvanātha Kavirāja - Literature - 1994 - 474 pages
...deep thou wingest; And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. 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 high-born maiden In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Souls in secret hour With music... | |
| William G. Rowland - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 254 pages
...imagined himself making contact with an audience, though that contact is usually expressed as a paradox: Like a Poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing...wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not. ("To a Sky-Lark," lines 36-40) The audience is converted to the poet's beliefs, but the poet himself... | |
| William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. What them 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... | |
| Mary Oliver - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 212 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... | |
| Andrew Bennett - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 268 pages
...is simply a necessary prelude to recognition. The bird is famously compared to a poet in stanza 8: Like a Poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing...wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not . . . (lines 36-4o) The poet is present but concealed by his 'thought' from the view of the public,... | |
| Pia-Elisabeth Leuschner - Comparative literature - 2000 - 286 pages
...Similes ist das erste, die den Dichter selbst als Bildbereich für das Wesen des Vogels eintreten läßt: „Like a poet hidden /In the light of thought, /.../ To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not." (v. 36-40). Vgl. dazu im weiteren Doggett: Romanticism's Singing Bird (Anm. 647) S. 553. Vgl. zu der... | |
| Frances Mayes - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 548 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... | |
| 2005 - 334 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. Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine: I have never heard Praise of love or wine... | |
| Sally West - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 222 pages
...qualities of the natural and human world and open, appropriately, with the poet himself. The lark is Like a Poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing...wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not. (36-40) Just as the poet's song becomes a disembodied voice through his works, obscured by the light... | |
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