 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 2831870 - 438 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1863 - 364 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,... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1863
...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... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863
...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 hght of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy... | |
 | 1864
...intense nationality which characterizes Polish poetry. That stanza in Shelley's " Ode to a Skylark "— " Like a poet hidden, In the light of thought, Singing...To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not"— is peculiarly applicable to the Polish poet, " pouring his full heart," full of anything but the skylark's... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1864
...curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all." d. " Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting." e. " Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing...wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not." 5. a. Mr. Collier speaks of the following lines of Marlow as Alexandrines. Is he right in doing so... | |
 | 1864
...intense nationality which characterizes Polish poetry. That stanza in Shelley's " Ode to a Skylark "— " Like a poet hidden, In the light of thought, Singing...To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not"— is peculiarly applicable to the Polish poet, " pouring his full heart," full of anything but the skylark's... | |
 | William Henry Hall - Poland - 1864 - 350 pages
...intense nationality which characterises Polish poetry. That stanza in Shelley's " Ode to a Skylark "— " Like a poet hidden, In the light of thought, Singing...wrought, To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not " — is peculiarly applicable to the Polish poet, " pouring his full heart," full of anything but... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864
...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. With thy clear keen joyance languor cannot be: shadow of annoyance never came near thee: thou lovest;... | |
 | 1864
...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 Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864
...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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