 Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And...  The Book of Georgian Verse - Page 570edited by - 1909 - 1313 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Margaret Fuller - American literature - 1846 - 380 pages
...river, Pouring out praise to the Almighty Giver, Joy and jollity be with us both." Hear Shelley. Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from...wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singect. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are bright'ningi Thou dost float... | |
 | Gem book - 1846 - 398 pages
...greatest despise — Then up to heaven's threshold, blithe Skylark, arise! MOIR. TO THE SKYLARK. HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from...wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float... | |
 | John William Carleton - Firearms - 1846 - 360 pages
...Lark (Alanda arvensis, Linn.). — One of our poets thus addresses this sweet warbler : — " Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from...wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain ? What fields, or waves, or mountains?... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...thee ; And both thy servants be. TO A SKYLARK — Shelley. HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird them never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest...wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float... | |
 | Sarah Margaret Ossoli (march.) - 1846 - 182 pages
...Joy and jollity be with us both." Hear Shelley. Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wort, That from heaven or near it, Pourest thy full heart...wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...lament We may fitly conclude this selection with Shelley's exquisite ode to the "Sky-Lark:" " Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from...wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightening Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 pages
...child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and, unbuild it again. TO A SKYLARK. KAIL to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from...wingest. And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singe*!. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brtgntening, Thou dost float... | |
 | Robert Turnbull - Scotland - 1847 - 396 pages
...to the following strains written by Shelley under the inspiration of the sky-lark's song : Hail to thee, blithe spirit, Bird thou never wert, That from...wingest, And singing, still dost soar ; and soaring, ever singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fore-edge painting - 1847 - 578 pages
...thine. I fear thy mien, thy tones, thy motion, Thou needest not fear mine ; I TO A SKYLARK. HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from...springest Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou wingcst, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest In the golden lightning Of the sunken... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - Classical languages - 1850 - 364 pages
...Sic ego deficicns aegra te voce vocavi, Tuqve mihi fautrix tempus in omnc venis. The Skylark. Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from...wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float... | |
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