 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
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1872 - 582 pages
...Heaven, and pouring forth an unconscious hymn of praise and thanksgiving. TO THE SKYLARK. Hail to thce, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven,...wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. u O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run; Like an unbodied joy whose race... | |
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 pages
...With smiles and tears, Frost the Anatomy Into his summer grave. Epipsychidion. TO A 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... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 646 pages
...— yet where shall any seek A garment whom thou clothest not ? Marlow, 1817. TO A 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 brightning, Thou dost float... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1874 - 396 pages
...happiest ' median stress,' prolonged with swelling fulness on the emphatic words: — 4. " Hail to thee, blithe spirit, — Bird thou never wert, —...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... | |
 | American poetry - 1875 - 210 pages
...actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in the dust. — JAMES SHIRLEY. 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 setting sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float... | |
 | Henry Major - 1875 - 310 pages
...— worked up embowered — in a bower sprite— spirit joyance — joy satiety — palling 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 Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 560 pages
...hear the sea Breathe o'er my dying brain its hist monotony. TO A SKYLARK. HAH to thee, blithe spirit 1 Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it,...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... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1875 - 356 pages
...Home W, Wordsworth r Fourth iy) CCXLI TO A SKYLARK Hail to thee, blithe Spirit ! Bird thou never were, 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 brightening, Thou dost float... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...Blest is thy dwelling-place, 0, to abide in the desert with thee ! JAMES HOGG. 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 lightening Of the setting sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 870 pages
...child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and upbuild it again. Ta a Skylark. Hail to Greece. Apostrophe to the Ocean. There singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float... | |
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