 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1856 - 512 pages
...these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass." In most poets imearthly beings are introduced to express peculiar removed essences of lyrical rapture... | |
 | Johann Matthaeus Bechstein - 1856 - 272 pages
...description of the poet: — ** Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling prass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy Music doth surpass." VIII.— THE SISKIN OR ABERDEVINE. THIS pretty and lively bird is less valued as a cage songster in... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pages
...sweet these heavywinged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth snrpats Te«h mo half tho gladness That thy brain must know, S;ieh harmonious madness From my lips... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 pages
...these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. Teach me, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I have never heard Praise of love or wine... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 362 pages
...these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. Teach me, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I have never heard Praise of love or wine... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awaken'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. Teach us, sprite, or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I have never heard Praise of love or wine... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - American literature - 1860 - 486 pages
...those heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine: I have never heard Praise of love or wine... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1860 - 450 pages
...these heavy winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakeu'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear and fresh, thy music doth surpass. Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Chorus Hymeneal, Or triumphal... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I have never heard Praise of love or wine... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 580 pages
...these heavy-winged thieves : Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous and clear and fresh, thy music doth surpass. Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Praise of love or wine... | |
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Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. 
