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
| English literature - 1848 - 490 pages
...words were put into his mouth, — of the poet, who tells his tale as a messenger from heaven, who sits hidden — " In the light of thought Singing hymns...wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not, — they never dreamt. A well-known truism was the utmost at which they aimed. The poet stands before... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1849 - 406 pages
...clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, Ae from thy presence showers a rain of melody. VIII. Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing...wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not : IX. Like a highborn maiden In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music... | |
| Spring flowers, S. P. - 1849 - 178 pages
...rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rait) of melody, Like a poet hidden In the light of thought. Singing...wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not. Like a glow-worm golden, In a dell of dew, Scattering uubeholden Its ;rricl hue Among the flowers and... | |
| Henry D. Moore - Gift books - 1850 - 276 pages
...wert, That from heaven, or near it, Poorest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Like a poet, hidden In the light of thought, Singing...wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears, it heeded not. Teach me half the gladness That thy heart must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow,... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 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... | |
| Margaret Fuller - American literature - 1852 - 364 pages
...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...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... | |
| Biography - 1852 - 318 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... | |
| Clara Lucas Balfour - English literature - 1852 - 458 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... | |
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 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... | |
| Arts - 1853 - 394 pages
...rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers ft rain of melody. Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing...world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it needed not. Like a high-born maiden In a pamce tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour,... | |
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