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
| Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 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... | |
| 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... | |
| College readers - 1994 - 1952 pages
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| 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... | |
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