 Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown : Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when...  Chambers's Pocket Miscellany - Page 721854Full view - About this book
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...to be heard. Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird ! No hungry generations tread thee ilown : The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient...amid the alien corn ; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, O|>ening on the foam Of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn. — Forlorn... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pages
...convince it."— Bacon. Ala, a wing ; as, aisle. Alienus, foreign ; us, alien, alienate, Inalienable. " Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn." Keats. Allos (Gr.), ozher; as, allegory; lit.... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such au ecstasy ! Still would'st thou sing, and I have ears...found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears timid the alien corn ; The same that oft-times hath Charmed magic... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - Country life - 1854 - 592 pages
...thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. Thou wast not born for earth, immortal bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down...amid the alien corn ; The same that ofttimes hath Chann'd magic casements, opening on the foam, Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. Forlorn ! the... | |
 | William Henry Hurlbert - Black people - 1854 - 252 pages
...woods of our own New England, we may not hold our breath to hear as in Surrey or in Switzerland : — " The selfsame song that found a path, Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home, She stood in tears among the alien corn ; " nor soar with " the scorner of the ground,"... | |
 | John Keats - 1856 - 326 pages
...immortal Bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I hear this passing night was heard lu ancient days by emperor and clown : Perhaps the self-same...amid the alien corn ; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of pei-ilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. 8. Forlorn... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1857 - 374 pages
...mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath ; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring...tears amid the alien corn ; The same that ofttimes bath Charmed magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn. Forlorn... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - American poetry - 1857 - 436 pages
...cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such au eestasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain—-...amid the alien corn ; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. Forlorn ! the... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - American poetry - 1857 - 426 pages
...pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vainTo thy high requiem become a sod. Thou wast not born...amid the alien corn ; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. Forlorn ! the... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath — Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring...amid the alien corn ; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn. Forlorn ! the... | |
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