Higher still and higher, From the earth thou springest, Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou 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... Recollections of a Literary Life - Page 314by Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 558 pagesFull view - About this book
| Almanacs, English - 1824 - 452 pages
...lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float and run, Like an embodied joy whose race is just begun. The pale purple even...Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight. In this month, black ants (formica nigraj are observed ; the blackbird and the turkey (meleagris gallopavo)... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1826 - 156 pages
...singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightning, Thou dost Boat and run ; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just...but yet I hear thy shrill delight, Keen as are the arrow? Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...»ingest In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, *У*г which clouds are brightening, Thou dost tloat river; Why aught should fail and fade that once is...Why fear and dream and death and birth Cast on tlie Tbou art uHseen, but ye* 1 Lear thy shrill delight, Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose... | |
| Isaac Ray - Anatomy, Comparative - 1829 - 254 pages
...most powerful muscles of all the singing- birds. Emily. — As Shelly beautifully speaks of it — Like a star of heaven In the broad day-light, Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight. Dr. B. — The organs of voice in reptiles are much less complicated in their construction than in... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightning, Thou dost float and run ; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. The pale puiple even Melts around thy flight; Like a star of heaven, In the broad day-light Thou art unseen,... | |
| William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singcst. In the golden lighting Of the sunken sun. O'er which clouds are brightening,...Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight. What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain ? What fields, or waves, or mountains ? What shapes... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1838 - 634 pages
...soaring ever singe*!. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds ore brigfttening, Thou dost float and run ; Like an unbodied joy whose...unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight. Keen as ore the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 336 pages
...which clouds are hright'ning, Thou dost float and run ; Like an unhodied joy whose race is just hegun. The pale purple even Melts around thy flight ; Like a star of heaven. In the hroad day-light Thou art unseen, hut yet I hear thy shrill delight. Keen as are the arrows Of that... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...springest Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun,...Thou dost float and run ; Like an unbodied joy whose raee ia just begun. The pale purple even Melts around thy flight ; Like a star of heaven, In the broad... | |
| 1839 - 446 pages
...sunny fields, to the forest glades ! Is there not religion there ? Listen to the sky-piercing lark ! " Like a star of heaven, In the broad day-light Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy »brill delight." Hear, and heed! for the bird's song is a holier hymn than the organ-aided Te Deum.... | |
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