 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English poetry - 1870 - 466 pages
...fear; If we were things bom Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. 95 Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! loo Teach me half the gladness... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1870 - 628 pages
...If we were things bom Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. VOL. H. Q Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! XXI. Teach me half the gladness... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...and pride and fear, If we were things bom Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should ejoice ; Or, with my Bryan and a book, Loiter long days near Shawford brook ; There sit by books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scornerof the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That... | |
 | English poetry - 1871 - 476 pages
...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 poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That... | |
 | William Osborn (schoolmaster) - 1871 - 114 pages
...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 poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness, That... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. XX. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! XXL 410 HAND-BOOK OF ENGLISH... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Literary Criticism - 1971 - 516 pages
...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 poet were, thou scorner of the ground! Teach me half the gladness That... | |
 | Mark Bailey - Elocution - 1880 - 80 pages
...rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. " Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! " Teach me half the gladness... | |
 | Antony Easthope - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 240 pages
...we could scorn If we were things born Not to shed a tear, 95 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, 100 Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground! Teach me half the gladness... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...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 Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know. Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow... | |
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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... 
