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
| Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 510 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... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 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 sweet... | |
| Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 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... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1855 - 766 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... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1855 - 770 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— vin. Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought... | |
| American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflow^ 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... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1857 - 374 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... | |
| English literature - 1858 - 398 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." Then follows that exquisite simile, where he compares the invisible singer to — " A poet hidden In... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...rainbow clouds there flow :i'./. Drops so bright to see, 1.t 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... | |
| Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 362 pages
...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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