 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
 | English poetry - 1876 - 508 pages
...Lights, forever cold ! BENJAMIN F. TAYLOR. H To the Skylark. "AIL to thee, blithe spirit ! — Uird 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 - Children's poetry, English - 1877 - 326 pages
...alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God. T. Gray *8l* 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 bright'ning, Thou dost float... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1877 - 104 pages
...child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again. TO A SKYLAKK. ) AIL 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 - 1878 - 442 pages
...child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again. 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... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - Poetry - 1878 - 358 pages
...sunshine warmed me to the heart— I walked in joy, and was not cold. J. Ingehnu. 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... | |
 | Readers - 1878 - 446 pages
...intensity of feeling, its wealth of imagination, and the sublimity of ita thought. To A SKYLARK. HAIL, to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from...wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring over singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost... | |
 | Max Kaluza - English language - 1911 - 422 pages
...ocean-floods, The City's voice itself is soft like Solitude's, or Shelley's Skylark (ababsb6): Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from...wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. For further variations of the Spenserian stanza see Schipper, EM II, 2, 768 — 791, from... | |
 | H. G. Widdowson - Foreign Language Study - 1992 - 248 pages
...of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate. (Shakespeare: Sonnets, 29) Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from...wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. (Shelley: To a Skylark) Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...by Shelley's friend Leigh Hunt in his periodical The Examiner (January 1818). 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 where clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float... | |
 | Arts - 1875 - 398 pages
...Skylark." Shelley's wonderful lyric, confessedly the finer piece of the two., is well known : — " Hail to thee, blithe spirit, — Bird thou never wert ! That...wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest." Just as this passionately- throbbing verse expressed the wildly beating heart of its author,... | |
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