 | Gem book - 1846 - 398 էջ
...the greatest despise — Then up to heaven's threshold, blithe Skylark, arise! MOIR. TO THE SKYLARK. HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert,...lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run, Like an unbodied joy, whose race is just begun. The pale purple... | |
 | 1846 - 436 էջ
...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...lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run ; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. The pale purple... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1846 - 360 էջ
...fat. The Lark (Alanda arvensis, Linn.). — One of our poets thus addresses this sweet warbler : — " Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert,...singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain ? What fields, or waves, or mountains? What shapes... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 1846 - 380 էջ
...mountain 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,...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... | |
 | 1846 - 544 էջ
...morning air, which the poet thus apostrophizes : — " Haü to thee, blithe spirit !— Bird thou ¿ever wert — That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy...full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art ! 220 MUSIC. " Higher still, and higher, Through the air thou springest ; Like a cloud of fire, The... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 402 էջ
...the purposes of Beneficence with a calmness befitting his knowledge and his love. TO A SKYLARK. I. Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Poorest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.1 ii. Higher still and higher From... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 էջ
...it. Their bright Stream like a comet's flashing hair : they all Sweep onward. 282 283 TO A SKYLARK. HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Poureat thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher, From the... | |
 | Robert Turnbull - 1847 - 396 էջ
...But listen 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,...lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run ; Like an embodied joy, whose race has just begun. All the earth... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 էջ
...reason to 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,...dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightening Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run ; Like an... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 էջ
...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... | |
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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,... 
