 What thou art we know not: what is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there flow not drops so bright to see, as from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden in the light of thought, singing hymns unbidden till the world is wrought to...  Pleasant Spots and Famous Places - Էջ 18John Alfred Langford - 1862 - 288 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1860 - 522 էջ
...ruins out her beams, and heaven if overflowed. What thou art we know not ; What in most like thee t ( From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright...see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. , . , f JUk«« poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 512 էջ
...and heaven is overflowed. What thou art we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow-clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. ****** Like a high-born maiden In a palace-tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music sweet as... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1857 - 374 էջ
...rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. What them art we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright...sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not : Like a high-bom maiden In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music sweet as... | |
 | 1857 - 398 էջ
...and careful study they may be derived), of a system. We would rather say with Shelley — "Thou art R poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy wilh hopes and fears it headed not." Let me not here be misunderstood. When I speak of Tennyson as... | |
 | 1888 - 928 էջ
...worked, and dreamt, and cherished hope, — "Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing songs unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not." The rich harvest of rabbinical stories that survive can be traced to rabbinical buoyancy. It is a quality... | |
 | 1857 - 818 էջ
...rather say with Shelley — " Thon art a poet hiillen In the light of thought, Sinking hjmr s unhidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not." Let me not here be misunderstood. When I speak of Tennyson as free from the restraints of rules, I... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1857 - 576 էջ
...the author of these effusions ? . " A poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unhidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not." We have let the poet speak for himself, not being ourselves well able to appreciate his " unbidden... | |
 | 1858 - 398 էջ
...rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. " What thou art we know not. What is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright...see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody." Then follows that exquisite simile, where he compares the invisible singer to — " A poet hidden In... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1858 - 274 էջ
...described: —A Poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world was brought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not. Like a high-born maiden In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour AVith music sweet as love, which overflows her bower.... | |
 | Charles Wilkins Webber - 1858 - 370 էջ
...Shelley's Sky-Lark, so is our Wood Thrush, " Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing songs unbidden, 'Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not." but, unfortunately, whatever of Greek taste there may be among us is so emulously expended in erecting... | |
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