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
| Bookbinding, Victorian - 1861 - 182 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... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...into play higher faculties than the mere intellectual reproduction of the impressions of sense : — " 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... | |
| George Lillie Craik - English language - 1862 - 578 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 highborn maiden In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music... | |
| John Alfred Langford - England - 1862 - 310 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 bower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour, With music... | |
| George Lillie Craik - English language - 1863 - 564 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 highborn maiden In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music... | |
| English poetry - 1863 - 982 pages
...overflow'd. What thou art we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not 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... | |
| Henry Gardiner Adams - 1863 - 330 pages
...a flood of sweet melody ; to hear the little brown Lark, high up in the sunshine, a mere speck — Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing...wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not One would indeed imagine, with Jeremy Taylor, that it had ' learned music and motion of an angel.'... | |
| John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 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... | |
| English poetry - 1863 - 392 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... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1863 - 390 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. " Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found,... | |
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