 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...Thy skill to poet were, thou seorner of the ground!* Teach me half the gladness, That thy brain mutt know; Such harmonious madness from my lips would flow, The world should listen then, as I am listening nao " In the spring of 1820," says Mrs. Shelley, " we spent a wee* or two near Leghorn, borrowing the... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - American literature - 1860 - 486 pages
...exuberance cf fancy, was incalculably superior to Wordsworth ? But mark their inferences. Shelley. " Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...world should listen, then, as I am listening now." Wordsworth. " What though my course be rugged and uneven, To prickly moors and dusty ways confined,... | |
 | England - English poetry - 1860 - 532 pages
...Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. SHELLEY. Mster. WHEN maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorncr of the ground ! TRUE LOVELINESS. 57 Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. SHELLEY. j E that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes doth seek Fuel... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1861 - 128 pages
...Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. HOPE TRIUMPHANT IN DEATH. CAMPBELL. UNFADING HOPE ! when life's last embers burn — When soul to soul,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 580 pages
...Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. KEATS. Keats, born in 1796, died the year before Shelley, and, of course, at a still earlier age. But... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladnessThat thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. SHELLEY. ETHEREAL minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound ?... | |
 | Bookbinding, Victorian - 1861 - 182 pages
...Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground. Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would now. The world should listen then, as I am listening now. SHELLEY. SUMMER. ELIGHTFUL is this loneliness... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1862 - 476 pages
...Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the gi XXI. Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would now, The world should listen then, as I am lis now. TO I FEAR thy kisses, gentle maiden, Thou needest... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 pages
...Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. THE MINSTREL-BOY.— Moore. THE Minstrel-boy to the war is gone, In the ranks of death you'll find... | |
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Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear: If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to... 
